"I was mediocre journalist, a mediocre musician, a mediocre actor, a mediocre athlete. I had to find something I could do well."1 A surprising beginning for a man who, on the night of January 28, 1979, had created the three toprated shows on network...

New Yorker Garry Marshall (born Marscharelli) wrote a memoir called Wake Me When It's Funny. The title reveals the creative drive behind a man who, whether as scriptwriter, producer, or director, became a linchpin in the growth of popular TV...

Garry Kent Marshall (born November 13, 1934) is an American...

Georgia Rule Running Time 113 minutes Directed By Garry Marshall Written By Mark Andrus Starring Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman Jane Fonda can do just about anything, but first you have to give her something to do. A dismal abomination called Georgia Rule gives...

With "Georgia Rule," Lindsay Lohan has made her "Gigli."That's partly because it's as epically awful as that notorious 2003 bomb starring the artist formerly known as Bennifer. Primarily, though, it's because Lohan's well-documented off-camera antics are such a distraction, as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 11-17:Nov. 11: Comedian Jonathan Winters is 82. Jazz singer-pianist Mose Allison is 80. Country singer Narvel Felts is 69. Guitarist Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge is 62. Singer-keyboardist Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills is 55. Singer Marshall Crenshaw...

John Safran is out to get God.But not as in "defeat" or "undermine." More like "comprehend" _ but with an audacious, some might even say irreverent, style.This is the premise for a most ungodly documentary series, "John Safran vs. God," which makes its U.S. premiere...

It is not a pretty world on display at the Winter Garden [in "The Roast"]…. Jerry Belson and Garry Marshall, two television writers, want nothing more than to expose the seamiest side of their own business. Their characters are comedians—beloved comedians, talented comedians, superstars—and they are all sick. They alternately grovel and backbite, hoping to advance their careers and settle old scores. They dream of hookers and money, of drugs and power, of sit-com spinoffs ...

This tired, aimlessly frisky comedy ["How Sweet It Is!"] is about as sweet as a dill pickle…. Unfortunately, what begins as a bouncy frolic about a fortyish couple involved with some teen-age girls on a European tour starts meandering, then flounders in a welter of stale gags, and finally does an inane nosedive.

The humaneness of the Fonz is one of the most unfortunate oversights in many of our students' viewing weeks. In our day, the Fonz is a throwback, not only to the halcyon days of the fifties (my, how we romanticize the past!), but also to a time when right and wrong were easier to define, when one could be both "cool" and respectful, and to a time when teenaged passion was an innocuous as a kiss. True, kisses meted out by the Fonz are frequent and lengthy, but he is recognized by others ...