Brian Damage
02-01-2012, 12:06 AM
When asked if there was a souvenir from her long career that she was particularly proud of, she pointed not to the trophy cases, but to the wall.
“I think the M,” she said. It was the large letter familiar from the apartment of Mary Richards, her character on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the popular and pivotal 1970s series.
The M is goldish in color but apparently not solid gold. “We did a retrospective, and they wondered whether or not they could have the M,” Ms. Moore recalled. “And I said, ‘Sure.’ I couldn’t imagine what could go wrong.”
What could go wrong, it turned out, was the exchange between a prop handler and a truck driver. “They dropped it, and it shattered into about four different pieces,” Ms. Moore said. “This is the original, glued back together.”
The M was given a shout-out in one of Ms. Moore’s most recent television appearances, a funny cameo last year on her friend Betty White’s sitcom, “Hot in Cleveland.” Ms. White’s character has landed in jail, and her cellmate turns out to be Ms. Moore. “What’s with the big M” on the wall over her bunk, Ms. White asks. And jailbird Mary replies, “Stands for murder.”
That M was merely painted; Ms. Moore admitted she’ll be reluctant to let the original leave the safety of her office again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-to-receive-screen-actors-guild-award.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
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“I think the M,” she said. It was the large letter familiar from the apartment of Mary Richards, her character on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the popular and pivotal 1970s series.
The M is goldish in color but apparently not solid gold. “We did a retrospective, and they wondered whether or not they could have the M,” Ms. Moore recalled. “And I said, ‘Sure.’ I couldn’t imagine what could go wrong.”
What could go wrong, it turned out, was the exchange between a prop handler and a truck driver. “They dropped it, and it shattered into about four different pieces,” Ms. Moore said. “This is the original, glued back together.”
The M was given a shout-out in one of Ms. Moore’s most recent television appearances, a funny cameo last year on her friend Betty White’s sitcom, “Hot in Cleveland.” Ms. White’s character has landed in jail, and her cellmate turns out to be Ms. Moore. “What’s with the big M” on the wall over her bunk, Ms. White asks. And jailbird Mary replies, “Stands for murder.”
That M was merely painted; Ms. Moore admitted she’ll be reluctant to let the original leave the safety of her office again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-to-receive-screen-actors-guild-award.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
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