Note: this article contains detailed discussions of sexual assault.
Norman Lear's seminal sitcom "All in the Family" was known for bringing laughs and thought-provoking discussions, but a 1977 episode entitled "Edith's 50th Birthday" was an outlier. Instead of a comedy, the two-parter felt like a horror show, one with a gravely serious topic: rape. In it, family matriarch Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton) survives a harrowing, extended assault attempt by a stranger and is forced to muddle through the aftermath of intense trauma. It's a dark point for the series, but it's one that show creator Lear said elicited the strongest live-action response of any moment in the show's nine-season run.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2017, Lear (who died at the age of 101 in 2023) was asked to recall the biggest audience uproar in the show's history. "I never heard a bigger sound on television than when Edith got...
Norman Lear's seminal sitcom "All in the Family" was known for bringing laughs and thought-provoking discussions, but a 1977 episode entitled "Edith's 50th Birthday" was an outlier. Instead of a comedy, the two-parter felt like a horror show, one with a gravely serious topic: rape. In it, family matriarch Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton) survives a harrowing, extended assault attempt by a stranger and is forced to muddle through the aftermath of intense trauma. It's a dark point for the series, but it's one that show creator Lear said elicited the strongest live-action response of any moment in the show's nine-season run.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2017, Lear (who died at the age of 101 in 2023) was asked to recall the biggest audience uproar in the show's history. "I never heard a bigger sound on television than when Edith got...
- 3/31/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Norman Steinberg, the Emmy-winning screenwriter who teamed with Mel Brooks on Blazing Saddles and My Favorite Year and wrote for the Michael Keaton-starring Mr. Mom and Johnny Dangerously, has died. He was 83.
Steinberg died March 15 at his Hudson Valley home in upstate New York, his family announced.
Steinberg also wrote Yes, Giorgio (1982), starring Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti in his feature acting debut, and co-wrote Funny About Love (1990), directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Gene Wilder and Christine Lahti.
The Brooklyn native and former lawyer won his Emmy very early in his career, for his work on a Flip Wilson variety show.
His TV résumé also included developing Marlo Thomas’ 1974 landmark kids special, Free to Be … You & Me (he brought Brooks in on that); serving as a writer and executive producer on the first two seasons of CBS’ Cosby; and creating the short-lived CBS sitcoms Doctor, Doctor and Teech.
Steinberg died March 15 at his Hudson Valley home in upstate New York, his family announced.
Steinberg also wrote Yes, Giorgio (1982), starring Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti in his feature acting debut, and co-wrote Funny About Love (1990), directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Gene Wilder and Christine Lahti.
The Brooklyn native and former lawyer won his Emmy very early in his career, for his work on a Flip Wilson variety show.
His TV résumé also included developing Marlo Thomas’ 1974 landmark kids special, Free to Be … You & Me (he brought Brooks in on that); serving as a writer and executive producer on the first two seasons of CBS’ Cosby; and creating the short-lived CBS sitcoms Doctor, Doctor and Teech.
- 3/22/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Emmy Awards ballot for Best Comedy Writing lists 224 episodes from 117 series, up from 195 episodes from 101 series last year, when the nominees were:
“Atlanta” season 1
“B.A.N.” (Donald Glover)
“Streets on Lock” (Stephen Glover)
“Master of None” season 2
Winner: “Thanksgiving” (Aziz Ansari & Lena Waithe)
“Silicon Valley” season 4
“Success Failure” (Alec Berg)
“Veep” season 6
“Georgia” (Billy Kimball)
“Groundbreaking” (David Mandel)
SEEour slugfest video on the top reality and variety races.
2016/2017 winner “Master of None” and 2015 winner “Veep” are out of contention, so there are two or three slots open, depending on how you count “Episodes,” which has never missed a nomination when eligible in this category. Having been nominated in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015, “Episodes” now contends for its series finale.
Alec Berg similarly contends for his fifth consecutive nomination for “Silicon Valley.” He is also in contention for the “Barry” pilot co-written by Bill Hader, who has never been nominated for writing,...
“Atlanta” season 1
“B.A.N.” (Donald Glover)
“Streets on Lock” (Stephen Glover)
“Master of None” season 2
Winner: “Thanksgiving” (Aziz Ansari & Lena Waithe)
“Silicon Valley” season 4
“Success Failure” (Alec Berg)
“Veep” season 6
“Georgia” (Billy Kimball)
“Groundbreaking” (David Mandel)
SEEour slugfest video on the top reality and variety races.
2016/2017 winner “Master of None” and 2015 winner “Veep” are out of contention, so there are two or three slots open, depending on how you count “Episodes,” which has never missed a nomination when eligible in this category. Having been nominated in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015, “Episodes” now contends for its series finale.
Alec Berg similarly contends for his fifth consecutive nomination for “Silicon Valley.” He is also in contention for the “Barry” pilot co-written by Bill Hader, who has never been nominated for writing,...
- 7/6/2018
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
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