Your description of Debra Winger is spot on. Back when I lived in Houston, a friend got us both hired as extras on Urban Cowboy. Unfortunately, I was in a car wreck and wasn't able to follow through but my friend did and said Travolta was nice but Winger was impossible, a real diva. Actually, I think her words were a f*cking a$$hole b*tch but I think the word diva is implied.
on the set of Giant James dean and rock hudson hated each other Liz always had to be the go between but when Dean died Rock was almost drowning in tears.
there I days I wish I was alive when the whole debbie/liz/fisher thing was happening, I would've ate that up! but they became friendly later which is kind of a bummer..I don't think anything is better than joan crawford and bette davis. their comments about each other is just hysterical!
....oh, I couldn't stand her - (Bonnie Franklin) they always made her out to be a real man magnet, ya right, her, yuk!
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Not exactly "Co-stars" but F1 World Champions Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna despised each other (Prost's contract for 1993-1994 with Williams specifically stated that Ayton was NOT to be his team mate). Sometimes this spilled over to the track (you know who you are)
It seems that they put it behind them, Ayrton even mentioned Alain during a interview stating that he (Senna) missed Prost.
After Senna was killed at Imola, the Senna family asked Prost to sit on the board of directors of the charity that Senna had started. To my knowledge he does to this day.
With all this talk about Bonnie Franklin I had to check and see if any ODAAT was on YT. Sure enough they numerous clips and episodes. And Bonnie's acting was worse than I expected! Actually all three of women were lousy in the beginning. I have to say that Bertinelli and Philips got better in time as they got older. But I seem to recall that at the time I watched, we didn't have the kind of channel line up of today, so I watched back then because simply there wasn't much to choose from. Had I been older when the show was on, I would have turned off the tv and read a good book instead LOL.
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Yeah, back in the day we had three channels. Even if the shows on all three stations sucked, we would watch the show that sucked the least. There's no way that anyone would ever watch "The Love Boat" if they had a better selection.
LOL...there were some good shows on TV at the time and some real stinkers. ODAT was just an odd show. In fact, all of Norman Lears shows had a strange vibe and were all about preaching social issues. I remember one episode where Barbara wanted to be cool so she spread the rumor she was on the pill. A jock got word and came over to the apartment expecting to get lucky and when she said no he tried to rape her. Then it became a whole episode about sex, rape,virginity etc.......
A few years ago ther was a short lived show called "The Rerun Show" where they did parodies of old sitcoms. They did one of ODAT and it was hilarious. Bonnie's part was played by a black actress in a red bowl cut wig. She did all the weird acting and monlogues like Bonnie and they had a light come down from heaven and she would get in front of a podium like she was preaching. They had Mackenzie all drugged up and in one scene they woke her up to say her dialogue and she was squinting to read the cue cards. At the end of the episode they had a tabloid about her drug use being shown and a card board cut out of Mackenzie with it's eyes poked out and a stage hand was holding it up and hiding behind it doing her lines......LOL
LOL, you guys are killing me with Bonnie Franklin! She was awful! I was about the age of Valerie Bertinelli's character and I just had to watch it. But boy, BF was ridiculous. My mom didn't like it because she said it made single parenthood look easy and fun. I loved it and hated it at the same time.
Hey Hoagie - we should start a Bonnie Franklin thread.
And one more thing - how about that damn feather she had in that Woolworth "Professional Career Lady" hat?
Better yet - her hitting on 16 year old Robbie Benson by dancing the Hustle.....or dating the married man.....or going after Julie's much older boyfriend (Jim Hutton) because she didn't like that a man her age was looking at younger women.
I can never say it too much - I hate that woman.
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ROTFL!!!! you are a riot. Maybe she should have her own thread. I remember those episodes and the craptastic display of her doing the hustle.
Bonnie appeared on Love Boat as Captain Stubing ex wife. She was a raging B__ and treated him and the crew like crap. She had a hat on like she did on ODAT in white with the feather and matching too tight pant suit. She must of thought that was her style trademark.
Remember the tacky opening credits ? They always had Mackenzie dancing in them. I wonder if she did that little dance for Pops ?
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This show stayed on for upwards of a decade? After all your vivid descriptions, I went and found a you tube clip.... and all I can say is WTF???
She wishes it was a cutlet. That's a McNugget.
LOL.....that magazine cover is too much. Bonnie made sure her fried eggs were on display. Valerie and Mackenzie look like they have been in her stash.
Here is Season 2 opening credits with the actress at the end Bonnie got fired for upstaging her. The uploader said it was their favorite themes from Norman Lears mustard brown and orange 70's sitcoms.....LOL
The word whup on your feet in the song always had me laughing and puzzled at the same time.
From Wikipedia:
"The show was created by Whitney Blake and Alan Manings, a husband-and-wife writing duo who were actors during the 1950s and 1960s. The show was based on Whitney Blake's own life as a single mother, raising her child, future actress Meredith Baxter."
Whitney Blake is probably best known as Dorothy ("Mrs B") Baxter on the sitcom Hazel.
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Aha! It's all Meridith Baxter's fault!
Bonnie Franklin has always looked like her breath stunk...I can't explain that but that is the impression I have always had.
There are no words that could explain this little horror from the 80's.
I remember reading somewhere in an interview with Lydia Cornell (Sarah on Two Close For Comfort) that she and Ted Knight didn't get along too well. She referred to him as being frosty.
Jack Lord of Hawaii Five-O was said to be difficult on the set when things didn't go exactly the way he wanted.
Jack Lord was referred to as Jack The Lord (behind his back, I'm guessing) because of his stubborn ways. Since everyone loved being in Hawaii, they all put up with him.
Bill Murray supposedly didn't get along with Robert DeNiro during the filming of Mad Dog and Glory. Apparently, Robert didn't care for Bill's clowning around during the shoot.
Didn't Bill Cosby and Lisa Bonet have words during The Cosby Show and A Different World? Come to think of it, does anyone here know why Marisa Tomei left World after one season?
I think someone was talking about the Jerry Lewis/Dean Martin on air reunion after being estranged for a very long time. It was set up by Frank Sinatra. Here is the clip....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlksTohQJa4
Lana Turner had very little use for almost any woman on her sets. She went straight for the men, and ignored the women completely. Although she did later reconcile with Judy Garland (Turner eloped with Artie Shaw, who Garland had been seeing), for the most part her female friends were always "below" her on the food chain, and she alienated most every actress she worked with.
The Cos and Lisa Bonet had a falling out about Lisa's decision to star in the movie "Angelheart" (which stunk!) with Mickey Rourke. He didn't feel that the character she played in the movie (voodoo priestess using a chicken in a provacative manner/sex scene) fit the wholesome image she had created as Denise Huxtable on the Cosby Show. Then he spun her off into A Different World on which she only lasted a year because she married Lenny (oh so fine!) Kravitz and got pregnant. I am glad she was let go because the first season of A Different World stunk with her on it and definitely got 100 times better once her character was removed. Not sure why Marisa Tomei left after one season though.
Poor Terri Hatcher owns this thread. (She's still the prettiest one).
I have to admit though, atleast Terri doesn't try to cover it up and tell the press, "we all get along!".
We should start a new thread called "Co-stars who didn't get along with anybody".....Bill Murray & Andy Griffith would probably top the list..
It doesn't really count as "not getting along", but Bing Crosby was notoriously reserved. Ingrid Bergman for one was completely baffled at how little he socialized on the set of their movie, and Celeste Holm (who costarred with him in High Society), said "his body was there but his head wasn't". He offended a lot of people by how cold he was.
Norma Shearer resented Rosalind Russell on the set of the women, she was threatened by Ros' talent and comedic timing.
Kate Hepburn pissed off at least one person per movie set. Most notable in my mind is Ruth Hussey (the Philadelphia Story) who said "If I were a lady who cursed, I would have some great descriptors for the great Miss Hepburn".
what about shannon doherty and just about everyone that's ever worked with her?
It is my understanding that Tina Louise was aloof and kept to herself on the Gilligan's Island set while the other cast members would hang out together and shoot the breeze.
Edie Adams was snubbed by Rosalind Russell during their run in Wonderful Town. Roz described Edie Adams as "tacky".
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