david&maddie4ever
02-15-2004, 06:10 PM
Hey, everybody. :wave:
I got this book last year called "The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time," and Moonlighting, of course, was in there. :D The shows weren't listed in any order, so I don't know where it placed, but I thought I'd post the article that was in there. Here you go...
"You knew it the minute you saw him-the cocksure swagger, the barroom eyes, the quarterback smile. Bruce Willis was a Star, even if he was only the lead of ABC's crime-time detective dramedy Moonlighting. As too-hip-for-the-room private dick David Addison, Willis was like David Lee Roth with a badge; he sang, he limboed, he solved crimes, and, as time went on, he watched his hairline recede. The razor-sharp repartee that Willis shared with luminous costar Cybill Shepherd, as fleeced ex-cover girl Maddie Hayes, and the show's gleeful irreverence helped make it a Thin Man for the opulent '80s.
Created by ex-Remington Steele writer Glenn Gordon Caron, Moonlighting virtually redefined screwball comedies for the postfeminist era. For almost five seasons, Maddie screamed at David. David howled back. Maddie threw something. David ducked. And maybe they did a little investigating. But as long as David and Maddie worked together, yet didn't get together, America didn't care if they ever got to the bottom of a case. So what if there were occasional launches into lunatic fancy-like the Elizabethan "Taming of the Shrew" episode, the '40s-style film noir pastiche, the frequent into-the-camera asides. It was all fine and dandy, as long as the mile-a-minute dialogue kept coming, and the potent emotions that coursed between the Blue Moon detectives stayed under the surface where they belonged. Unfortunately, David and Maddie did get together, late in Moonlighting's run, and the show lost its fizz. But while it was good, it was great. And hey, that Al Jarreau theme song rocked. - Marc Bernardin"
Yay! :cheer:
~Lauren
:sheep
I got this book last year called "The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time," and Moonlighting, of course, was in there. :D The shows weren't listed in any order, so I don't know where it placed, but I thought I'd post the article that was in there. Here you go...
"You knew it the minute you saw him-the cocksure swagger, the barroom eyes, the quarterback smile. Bruce Willis was a Star, even if he was only the lead of ABC's crime-time detective dramedy Moonlighting. As too-hip-for-the-room private dick David Addison, Willis was like David Lee Roth with a badge; he sang, he limboed, he solved crimes, and, as time went on, he watched his hairline recede. The razor-sharp repartee that Willis shared with luminous costar Cybill Shepherd, as fleeced ex-cover girl Maddie Hayes, and the show's gleeful irreverence helped make it a Thin Man for the opulent '80s.
Created by ex-Remington Steele writer Glenn Gordon Caron, Moonlighting virtually redefined screwball comedies for the postfeminist era. For almost five seasons, Maddie screamed at David. David howled back. Maddie threw something. David ducked. And maybe they did a little investigating. But as long as David and Maddie worked together, yet didn't get together, America didn't care if they ever got to the bottom of a case. So what if there were occasional launches into lunatic fancy-like the Elizabethan "Taming of the Shrew" episode, the '40s-style film noir pastiche, the frequent into-the-camera asides. It was all fine and dandy, as long as the mile-a-minute dialogue kept coming, and the potent emotions that coursed between the Blue Moon detectives stayed under the surface where they belonged. Unfortunately, David and Maddie did get together, late in Moonlighting's run, and the show lost its fizz. But while it was good, it was great. And hey, that Al Jarreau theme song rocked. - Marc Bernardin"
Yay! :cheer:
~Lauren
:sheep