Word: mitchlll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paramount Pop. Barefoot in the Park-the Simon farce about newlyweds in the Manhattan walk-up with the leaky skylight and squeaky mother-in-law-has been transmogrified by Paramount into all-blackness. The premiere was predictable yet sprightly, as the hero (Scoey Mitchlll), a token Negro in a fashionable law firm, was cajoled into moonlighting as a butler at a party, where, naturally, his boss showed up. Offscreen, Scoey has beaten the 13-week jinx in his own way. After hassling all summer, Mitchlll popped a Paramount vice president in the face with just twelve shows finished...
...Show, featuring the star as a grandfather. Two new series are based on plays written by Neil Simon. One of them, The Odd Couple, stars Jack Klugman and Tony Randall. The other, Barefoot in the Park, makes a switch from white to black, with a cast headed by Scoey Mitchlll and Nipsey Russell. Based on Simon's cozy white-middle-class comedy about a square Manhattan lawyer, his silly wife and their nutty neighbor, this black version is certainly an intriguing-if arbitrary-departure from the original version. Whether or not it portends a network trend remains...
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