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Her brother was a hack.


Her brother Garry unleashed the cinematic Pol Pot known as Julia Roberts upon the world.

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Yeah, Garry Marshall was indeed a hack. No argument here.

But rest Penny's soul. So fun in (the early years, anyway) of "Laverne and Shirley."

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He says he created Laverne and Shirley to be different from the sitcoms with "pretty girls". What pretty girls, except Mary Tyler Moore? Penny told her brother "you're just being nice" when he put her in his early 70's -late 60's shows, which he replied." I am not being nice, I'm not that nice". Ah..yeah, putting your inexperienced unknown sister in YOUR show is being nice. And his two 70's sitcoms hardly made me laugh. And no Emmys either.

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Back in the day, this director was A+ list. He had just made the movie that would define his career and he was on top of the world. It is a movie that almost everyone has seen, and if you haven't seen it, you know exactly what it is about. That is how pervasive it is. Anyway, the studio wanted a movie from the director. He was hot. So, he proposed something that looking back looks idiotic and destined to be a bomb, but hey, he was the director of that thing so we have to let him. I think the director knew his movie was crap. His celebrity offspring told him the movie was crap. The director didn't care. This was his own personal porno. You can't look at the top names when you look at the cast. That was cover. It is the actresses that got topless in the movie for their first credit. Most of them had to casting couch to get in that movie. There are so many sex scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor with actresses who had casting couched to get a role and then have sex on camera only to see it end up solely in the director's home movie collection. He had recordings made of sex with those actresses too in case they ever decided to come after him. He threatened to release the tapes. He thought he was untouchable. He kind of is now.

Director: Garry Marshall
Movie that defined his career: "Pretty Woman"
Movie bomb: "Exit To Eden"

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