Penny Marshall: A Penny for your Thoughts - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 12-23-2015, 04:13 AM

http://lebeauleblog.com/2015/12/22/p...your-thoughts/

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Twenty-five years ago, director Penny Marshall spoke with Movieline about her upcoming drama, Awakenings, how she became one of two prominent female directors in Hollywood at the time and what it was like working on her brother’s sitcom while being married to Rob Reiner.

PracTz · 12-26-2015, 01:35 PM

One of the less appealing parts of Miss Marshall's recent autobio was that she downplayed her own talent as a director as though the profession just fell in her lap at a time when women directors were few and far between, and, apart from mentioning how she befriended MORE celebs via that venture, didn't seem to grasp her own impact on the movies themselves much less the profession. While the movie wasn't perfect, IMO, it was quite well done on Miss Marshall's part and IMO a masterpiece for its time .

Chocolate Moose · 12-27-2015, 05:26 PM

Oh. I thought maybe she wrote a book too. OK

Milhouse77 · 08-15-2016, 01:05 PM

Penny Marshall was one of the first women I had a romantic crush on. She made shorts fashionable long before Catherine Bach. Unfortunately, when I became a teenager in 1978, she was already in her mid-thirties and married to The Meathead. I would have been young enough to be her second child instead of a husband...

Chocolate Moose · 08-15-2016, 04:21 PM

Wow. I was fooled a 2nd time !!!!!

12-27-2015, 05:26 PM	#3
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12-26-2015, 01:35 PM	#2
PracTz Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 14, 2002 Location: United States of America [Happily Living in the 20th Century] Posts: 2,711	One of the less appealing parts of Miss Marshall's recent autobio was that she downplayed her own talent as a director as though the profession just fell in her lap at a time when women directors were few and far between, and, apart from mentioning how she befriended MORE celebs via that venture, didn't seem to grasp her own impact on the movies themselves much less the profession. While the movie wasn't perfect, IMO, it was quite well done on Miss Marshall's part and IMO a masterpiece for its time .

08-15-2016, 01:05 PM	#4
Milhouse77 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Aug 15, 2016 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 10	Penny Marshall was one of the first women I had a romantic crush on. She made shorts fashionable long before Catherine Bach. Unfortunately, when I became a teenager in 1978, she was already in her mid-thirties and married to The Meathead. I would have been young enough to be her second child instead of a husband...

08-15-2016, 04:21 PM	#5
Chocolate Moose Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 21, 2007 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 4,898	Wow. I was fooled a 2nd time !!!!!