Word: parker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...track," claimed Judith Parker, who wrote the script. "Most people at Harvard, most people, come from prep school, they've been to Europe each summer, they have the family contacts. This is the story of someone (Anderson's character) who didn't have that priviliged environment, and must come to grips with...
Also critical to Parker's theme were the latest network demographic surveys. Originally, she had planned a theatrical film for actresses Kristie McNichol and Jane Fonda. But because the movie audience is "a kid's audience"--15 to 22--that feels threatened by the Harvard mystique. Parker said. The studios suggested the University of Chicago as a more "fun," "collegiate" environment...
When her project moved to television, the target changed. Parker said surveys showed the TV audience to be "older people" with a different view of college and "grass roots, midwestern demographically," who would enjoy watching a girl struggle to cope with eastern values and the Eastern Establishment. Harvard became the setting again...
...things because they're major themes. That's where we'd like to be, but we're not," he said. The television powers imposed other aspects that Parker was not so amenable to. The choice of Anderson, for example, was one she was not pleased with. "It's a matter of sensitive and intellectual versus superficial and a intellectual," she said. "They're more likely to bring in somebody for TV appeal, whether or not it's right...
...When Parker and I got together, we did think about getting an unknown for her role, you know, making a star. But the network said. 'We want somebody with name value,'" Trikonis said...