Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
The parody of a soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman debuted in January of 1976, to become the "Bicentennial Soap"—much like Rocky became the Bicentenn...
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Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
[With "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," Lear and his company] are taking the venerable broadcasting form of soap opera and are attempting to work s...
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Critical Essay by Richard Schickel
It must have seemed a good idea doing a parody soap opera. For the opening minutes of its first episode last week, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman … still seemed ...
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Critical Essay by James Wolcott
Confession: "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" caught me almost completely by surprise. It doesn't broadly parody soap operas, and it isn't the s...
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Critical Essay by Stephanie Harrington
[On] "Mary Hartman"—the material is there, just as life is there; the writers respond to the absurdities they perceive around them; the act...
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Critical Essay by Harry F. Waters with Martin Kasindorf
Love it or loathe it, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" is the nation's latest pop-culture craze—a sort of video Rorscha...
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Critical Essay by James Wolcott
After the first season, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman deteriorated into an off-off-Broadway nightmare—a druggy No Exit, where hell was other suburbanites—bu...
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Entrepreneurs looking to launch an innovative start-up -- and sell it for big bucks -- could learn lessons from Norman Lear, creator of a string of TV hits in the 1970s. Among the lessons?Knock on ...
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Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
All In The Family Of Ideas
