Word: babaloo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Screenplay by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel...
Before Director Ron Howard and his gargle of writers (Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman) arrange a satisfactorily romantic ending for their odd couple, they also manage to satirize everything from presidential politics to daytime television. They are a jostling, busily observant, funda mentally good-natured crew, and audiences are well advised to take a plunge on Splash. - By Richard Schickel...
NIGHT SHIFT Directed by Ron Howard Screenplay by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel...
...script co-authored by a man named Babaloo Mandel can be without its patches of agreeable whimsy. But Ron Howard, who has been acting in sitcoms (The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days) for most of his 28 years, should know more about shaping comic characters, situations and moods than he shows here. Winkler, the Fonz on Happy Days, is pleasantly put-upon here; Michael Keaton, also from TV, is mildly manic; and Shelley Long so resembles Pam Dawber in her squeaky cuteness that one wonders why the producers didn't raid Mork and Mindy for the real thing. Sitcom...