Word: yorkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intrigued by TV's enormous power and potential," Porterfield says, "but I can't help regarding it warily, as a kind of curious box droning away over there in the corner of the room." Though Yorkin and Lear's programs are not great art, there is no denying their success. "Whatever it takes to attract the greatest number of viewers each week, Yorkin and Lear have it. They are the best in their field, and we wanted to tell our readers who they are and how they operate. In the telling, I might have hoped...
...Yorkin blends more readily into the gregarious California lifestyle. Usually calm and direct, he can be stern at work (after being directed by him in a special, Fred Astaire gave him a bull whip), but he enjoys relaxing with a wide circle of friends. He and his wife-former Actress Peggy Diem, by whom he has a son and a daughter-shuttle between a Spanish-style home in Beverly Hills and a rented beach house at Malibu, where Yorkin occasionally dons an Archie Bunker sweatshirt and barbecues hot dogs for neighbors like the Henry Mancinis. Although, like Lear, he describes...
...seen Norman cry and I've seen Bud kick a door because things weren't working," says one of their aides. "But they've never attacked each other." Why not? "We have no ego problem," says Yorkin. "We know that whatever either of us succeeds in doing is good for both, because it all goes in the same pot." The pot is growing bigger; what to do next is becoming a multimillion-dollar question. Indeed, what else is left for Yorkin and Lear now that they have given TV a new system of dating...
Above all, though, Yorkin and Lear yearn to make it in the movies. The failure that each nurses most lovingly is a film. With Yorkin it is Start the Revolution Without Me, a 1970 farce about the French Revolution that he produced and directed. With Lear it is Cold Turkey, a 1971 satire in which he directed his own script about an Iowa town that collectively kicks the smoking habit. Erratic but lively and intriguing, both works were just slightly out of sync with the shifting rhythms of public taste that Yorkin and Lear's TV shows have always...
Meanwhile, Yorkin and Lear's breakthrough with Family has prompted a host of imitators-led by Yorkin and Lear. The best of the shows to explore the comic territory they opened up is their Sanford and Son (also adapted from a British original), which made its debut on NBC last January...