(A Celebration of Four Deliciously Obscure Female Centric Sitcoms of the 1960's!)
Out of our Fabled Channel Zero Archives we will be screening:
"
Occasional Wife (1966)", in which rising young ad man Michael Callan hires local artist Patricia Harty to pretend to be his wife as his employer prefers hiring Family Men!
"The Pruitts of Southampton" (1966) starring Phyllis Diller as a busted heiress desperate to keep up appearances.
"Mona McCluskey"(1965) Featuring Juliet Prowse as a fabulously wealthy and successful actress who marries a USAF Staff Sergeant played by former screen Tarzan, Denny Miller.
"Ugliest Girl in Town"(1968) A sitcom concept so weird, we decline humbly to attempt mere summery, suffice to say the "High Concept" is, Swinging London's Top Model
Is A Man Bay-bee!!
Why Screen Such Dog-Eared Obscurities?
Because we can't complete with Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, the X-Men and those meshugginah Transformers thats why!
So yes were are counter-programming (frankly we are counter programming like crazy!)....but we are also mapping changes to the sitcom landscape, taking a moment to review the mythically comical female in American Sitcoms...and reviewing just how convoluted & fantasy driven plotlines could be in a storytelling landscape rigidly controlled by Network "Standards and Practices" departments.
The Somerville Theatre (micro cinema)
55 Davis Square
Somerville Ma
Friday July 11th, 2014
Admission $7.50 (still the cheapest ticket in the Hub)
Tickets on sale the night of the show in front of the Micro-Cinema.
Tell Your Friends, Channel Zero is Back and Giving No Quarter!
she lives in a vast unexplored tropical rain forest that straddles the border between Arlington and Belmont Massachusetts. Since she "Stands the Watch over the Lost Land of Spirits" she offered me a choice of obituaries...Denny Miller or Joan Rivers.
Ever the scion of Republican Simplicity, I chose the late Tarzan Actor...after all, Joan Rivers had Howard Stern...but the Late Denny Miller has but me.
The Jungle Girl smiled nodded and rode the vines back to her Fabled Lost City, for now, her mission was complete.
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Cuz I got a line on the guy not mentioned in any of the obits...
Because let the record show that Channel Zero gathered what was likely the lastpaying audience to watch one of the Late Denny Miller's performances back in July when we screened an ep of "Mona McCluskey" as part of our "Riot Girls of the Great Society" program.
And it's just ironic to note, that Miller left the basketball court at UCLA to become a screen Tarzan (in MGM's awful 1959 remake "Tarzan the Ape Man") and then spent the rest of his career goofing his own heroic image...meanwhile the original film itself languishes in complete obscurity no one seems to have it.
Ah but Denny was proof positive you didn't have to be in a good Tarzan movie to Make Good, look at Lex Barker...he ended up working with Fellini.
Fate was not quite so kind to Denny he had to make do with stooging it up with Peter Sellers in "The Party" (1969) among some two hundred TV appearances and stint as the "Gorton's Fisherman"...On the Other Hand, Denny never descended to the dregs of doing "The Celebrity Apprentice"...cuz frankly Trump would've been lucky to have him.
