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...keep these little mites out of the mines, shall we? And if the McCaughey trust fund won't fork over for Don LaPre's tapes, the over-fertilized parents can turn to two true tales of family business: The Seven Little Foys (1955), which obviously got director Mel Shavelson the Fonda/Ball gig, or--need CP say it? The Sound of Music (1965). Eidelweiss, everyone, and happy viewing...
...author of April in Paris, Screenwriter Melville Shavelson converted his Radio Shack home computer into a word processor with the addition of inexpensive software. This double-barreled capacity to tap and then manipulate information allows him a futuristic scope: "I subscribe to a Virginia computer service called The Source. I can get Jack Anderson scoops three days before they're scoops," claims Shavelson. "I can feed into it any two cities in the world and it'll figure out the airline connections for me, with a restaurant guide to various cities. Also I have a research service...
...John Wayne film canon and all episodes of the M*A*S*H TV series. The equipment in the seagoing media room includes a Javelin night-vision TV camera that scans the ocean or shoreline and projects what it sees on a wide screen amidships. Hollywood Writer-Director Melville Shavelson has so much electronic gear-including a computer hooked up to a U.P.I, news wire-that he has had to divide it between two rooms. Says he: "Theater for the home is already here. A media room becomes a focal point for the family. You make your own popcorn, make...
This movie begins with a sure sign oi trouble to follow: a montage of stills showing cute kids, each representing an ethnic minority, all of them pretty and smiling and irritatingly adorable. Having established this trough at the very outset, Writer-Director Melville Shavelson is free to proceed downward...
...Shavelson, whose credits include The Pigeon That Took Rome and The War Between Men and Women, shows himself a master of a formula that used to be standard fare on TV sitcoms: the emasculated American male who blusters and protests while remaining the tool of his pert, soft-spoken but granite-willed wife. Here he is played by Joseph Bologna, she by the adept but woefully misused Barbara Harris. Hubby coaches a hapless professional basketball team, the Phoenix Suns. He makes a good enough living, however. His suburban home is roomy, wellappointed, and chock-full of kids-three when...