Word: diff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These days Danny's pupils are not apprentices but paying customers for classes he conducts privately in Sherman Oaks, Calif., where he lives, and in three-day seminars at colleges around the U.S. Students spend $250 to learn from a man who has written for such TV series as Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life and for Comedian Joan Rivers' appearances on the Tonight Show, and who staged The Kraft Music Hall and The Carol Burnett Show...
...Donna Reed Show. In the early 1970s, under the influence of Norman Lear (All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons), TV families became more realistic and contemporary, their problems more substantial and socially relevant. But as the decade waned, TV moved toward increasingly outlandish family match-ups (Diff'rent Strokes, Eight Is Enough) or escaped into nostalgia and parody (Happy Days...
Goizueta's second major Hollywood raid came last August with the $485 million buy-out of Embassy Communications and Tandem Productions. Embassy currently has five shows on the air, including Diff'rent Strokes, Silver Spoons and ABC television's surprise hit, Who's the Boss? More important, Embassy, which was formerly owned by Producers Norman Lear and Jerrold Perenchio, holds syndication rights to such shows as Maude, Sanford & Son, One Day at a Time and The Jeffersons. Mike Mellon, a vice president of research for Walt Disney Productions, estimates the value of Embassy's rights at $500 million...
...field of prime-time television, Bud Yorkin has acquired what one could only classify as Bigfoot status. In conjunction with 8 to 11 guru Norman Lear, Yorkin developed, as his press release so modestly proclaims, a string of record breaking hits: "Sanford and Son," "Maude," "Good Times," "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Archie Bunker's Place." Commercial triumphs all, these Yorkin-Lear formula sit-coms were, in retrospect, surprisingly devoid of the socially relevant subject matter so current in many current series...
...them," she says. One measure of her burgeoning self-confidence was a new willingness to deliver public addresses; last year she gave 14 antidrug speeches, double the number of the year before. The First Lady played herself on an episode of the situation comedy Diff'rent Strokes, was co-host of the two-hour talk show Good Morning America and narrated an antidrug documentary for PBS, The Chemical People. She is about to announce an unusual high-profile variation on the theme, inviting the spouses of two dozen heads of state to the U.S. for a three-day antidrug forum...