Mary & Lou & Rhoda & Ted

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 3:34pm

Reading this now and it is highly entertaining.
AV Club picks 10 MTM eps

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 3:54pm

I have been following Jennifer Armstrong since her "Mickey Mouse Club" book a few years back. I love her writing style and the topics she picks (MMC, MTMS, feminism). My one issue I have with some of her writing, especially in "Sexy Feminism" which came out earlier this year, is that she poses more questions than she answers. At the beginning of "Sexy Feminism" I loved the open ended-ness of it all, but by the end it got a little schticky for me. I felt that a bit at the end of this book, but nevertheless enjoyed it.

I wrote my senior seminar paper on Mary Tyler Moore and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and cannot get enough information about it. I really enjoyed how she focused on the female writers and executives at the time, who I don't think get enough recognition. After reading Valerie Harper's autobiography, "I, Rhoda" and this book I have not been able to stop rewatching TMTMS and "Rhoda". I highly recommend all of Jennifer Armstrong's books as well as Harper's for those who have not read them.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 4:19pm

The MTM show kept me company in the '80s when WNBC would run them at 5 in the morning. I was too young to remember the show during it's original run, I was about 7 when the show went off the air.

Through those re-runs I was hooked. I fell in love with every character but my all time favorite character is Lou Grant.

When I moved from Miami to NYC two years ago I sold off my entire TV on DVD library except for two shows. MTM was one of them, I simply could not part with them.

Thanks for sharing the article.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 7:16pm

One of the funniest bits is when Sue Anne is going to seduce Lou. She enters the newsroom, walks over to Murray's desk, grabs his bald head and pretends it's a mirror to check her lipstick and then heads to Lou's office. High-larious!

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 7:43pm

The MTM show kept me company in the '80s when WNBC would run them at 5 in the morning. I was too young to remember the show during it's original run, I was about 7 when the show went off the air.

I am older than you, Carlos, and remember the original run quite well.

Nonetheless, in the 80s I watched the WNBC reruns four times a day! (And here's what's really sad: every time they would rerun the final episode, I would cry again--even though another rerun was coming up in a few minutes!)

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 8:31pm

This book is terrific.


Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic