Word: rhoda
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...this, however, for Moore: if she's going to break her wrist, she will at least get her scene. And indeed the three-point landing makes it into Mary and Rhoda, the long-awaited--if ultimately disappointing--movie that revisits one of the most renowned friendships in TV. Having won an Oscar nomination (Ordinary People) and tried some unsuccessful series (e.g., New York News) since signing off as The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Richards in 1977, Moore two years ago began shopping around the idea of reviving the working-woman icon and her eccentric best pal, Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie...
...tension between wish and reality is written all over Mary and Rhoda, which, for a movie that's not a pilot, looks precisely like one. Granted, it's harsh to compare the movie with seven years of a sitcom great. Yet its script begs the comparison shamelessly. As on MTM, Mary is starting over after a longtime relationship (in New York City, after her Congressman husband's death) and lands a job in TV with an arrogant boss--this time a 33-year-old punk who's made his reputation with ghoulish reality shows...