The Television Show The Odd Couple premiered on September 24, 1970. (The Broadway production, written by Neil Simon and directed by Mike Nichols, opened in 1965 and ran for almost a thousand performances; there was also a movie version in 1968, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.) Nothing against the play, which took home an…
September 19 1970 welcomed the first episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, with would run for seven seasons and 168 episodes, accumulating a large bundle of awards and honors along the way. In retrospect that is not surprising, given the amount of talent on hand in front of and behind the camera. The reputation…
Recently I was interviewed by Super-ficcion on a wide range of movie related issues, under the headline of “Is Hollywood in Crisis?” I thought they did a great job in putting together a very spiffy piece, which can be accessed here. Some Mid Century Cinema followers have read the interview on other platforms, but we’re…