This post originally ran in October 2012 with the title The “Stuckinna” Plot: Long before writer/director Garry Marshall‘s success in films (Pretty Woman), or as the creator of TV shows (Happy Days, Mork & Mindy), he was a comedy writer for some of the biggest names in the 60s; Lucille Ball, Danny Thomas, Joey Bishop, and Dick […]
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Archive for October, 2015This post first ran back in 2012 under the title Wanted: Writers with No Lives: You can file this one under, “What they don’t teach in film school”: “Penny [Marshall] and Cindy [Williams] would plow through writers, leaving me constantly looking for replacements. Sometimes I would go over to Happy Days and entice a writer or two to […] This post originally ran in 2012 under the title Happy Days in Hollywood: “Happy Days was for me the quintessential television success story. I had followed my instincts, and they had turned out to be right.” Garry Marshall The early 70s were not happy days. A sweeping snapshot of the United States during that time might […] This post first ran in October 2012 under the title, Jumping the Shark: “Fonzie began as a secondary character with very few lines. When he started drawing so much focus, we had to adjust the scripts.” Garry Marshall, Happy Days creator You can’t base a month of posts on Hollywood legend Garry Marshall without touching on one of the […] This post originally ran in 2012, but now it’s updated with a video clip: I’m going to be flying by memory today, but feel confident I have my facts straight. There’s a scene in Pretty Woman where Julie Roberts and Richard Gere are having a conversation in their hotel room one morning. On one of the director’s […] This post originally ran in October 2012 as Garry Marshall Directing Tips (Part 9): “Film directors should jump at any chance to direct a play because it can improve their relationship with actors. What’s wonderful about theater is that you get to move the actors around and stage scenes. You don’t have to worry about […] This post originally ran in October 2012 as Garry Marshall’s Directing Tips (Part 8): “For the sake of the story, you never want to mislead the audience, unless it’s intentional, a method Jackie Gleason used to call the Wild Turkey theory. If a guy walks into a bar and says, ‘I’d like a scotch and […] This post originally ran in October 2012 with the title Garry Marshall’s Directing Tips (Part7): “The original writer [of The Flamingo Kid] Neal Marshall, no relationship to me, had written a solid script based on his youth spent in the Catskills. Neal and I rewrote the script with notes from the producers, then the screenwriter Bo Goldman took a […] This post originally ran in 2012 as Garry Marshall’s Chicago Detour: Yesterday I did a shoot in downtown Chicago and thought I’d take brief detour from giving some of Garry Marshall’s directing tips and focus on his own detour to Chicago as he journeyed from the Bronx to Hollywood. “Academically, Northwestern opened many new doors for me. […] “My first movie for Garry [Marshall] was Garry’s first movie. It didn’t take me long to realize that he’s a master of comedy and a natural mentor to budding talent. I’ve watched him time and time again inspire young people who showed an aptitude and zeal for the work, whether it was writing, acting, or producing—and always […] |
