
Bonnie Franklin died a year ago as of last Saturday, and as we remember her and her indelible sitcom character, Ann Romano, from "One Day at a Time," we should reflect on the many challenges that faced her. What was the greatest?
by Anonymous | reply 203 | June 23, 2020 5:22 PM |
That haircut made her look like a giant orange mushroom.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 5, 2014 12:56 AM |
Did David actually hold her?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 5, 2014 1:00 AM |
No--she [italic]needed[/italic] him to hold her, but he wasn't there for her anymore. That's what made it so challenging.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 5, 2014 1:04 AM |
Coming to grips with Alex's homosexuality
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 5, 2014 1:06 AM |
I could never understand her characters' appeal I'm sure she was a fine actress, but I found myself not caring at all about her character
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 5, 2014 1:10 AM |
leaving a perfectly good, hard working handsome older husband and uprooting her two daughters to a brand new city so she could "find" herself. Couldn't she have waited until they graduated high school?
Having an affair with a married man?
Killing Nick Handris in a drunken driving accident so she could get her hands on his flamboyant son in order to replace her drug addicted, cult member daughter?
Killing Ginny Roblicki in a flight of blind rage because she dared to upstaged her?
Sexually molesting her young male secretary and thinking it was cute?
Faking a heart attack to get attention?
Slapping the shit out of Julie for getting involved with Timothy Hutton's father?
Putting a show on for the random elderly once a year?
Marrying your daughter's creepy father in law, Johnny Fever?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 5, 2014 1:14 AM |
That fucking tiny apartment when they didn't even use the area under the window.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 5, 2014 1:19 AM |
I'd say it was that she was a fictional character, OP. what an idiot.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 5, 2014 1:29 AM |
You can pretend you were there OP.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 12 | March 5, 2014 1:30 AM |
[quote]I'd say it was that she was a fictional character, OP. what an idiot.
Ah, the impotent rage of the irony-challenged.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 5, 2014 1:57 AM |
The most annoying episode was when Ann Romano turned 30 or 35. There was a big party for her in that dumpy 1970s apartment. Upset with another major birthday, she escaped into her bedroom where launched into an inane, poorly written monolog. The bitch was aiming for an Emmy; her performance was hammy and contrived. She bounced around the damned room bemoaning lost youth, talking to herself the whole time with sagging tits flopping around in one of those high 1970s clinging disco dresses that obviously did not flatter her.
Of course, the woman herself had abysmal taste in clothes. She was like a middle aged Little Orphan Annie drag queen. I'm surprised she escaped the Mr. Blackwell list - but maybe she was too dull to mention.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 5, 2014 6:24 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 5, 2014 6:29 AM |
I agree with a poster on the old Jump the Shark site who imagined Ann Romano always smelled like dirty pantyhose.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 5, 2014 6:57 AM |
One thing I never got was how she could have a last name like Romano (which was her maiden name) and have such red hair.
Her fiery Italian background was supposed to explain why she was so feisty.
I still wonder why they cast her. She was weirdly professional, but she was so unlikable all the same. In the 70s they often thought the central character had to be the straight person to the comic secondary actors (like Judd Hirsch on "Taxi") based on The Mary Tyler Moore Show's model--but what they didn't get was that MTM may have been saner than nearly anyone around her but she was also very funny (in her very subtle way). Bonnie Franklin was devoid of humor.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 5, 2014 7:06 AM |
I keep thinking of those giant funbags flopping around under those polyester cowlneck green sweaters. That must have hurt like hell.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 5, 2014 6:18 PM |
[quote]One thing I never got was how she could have a last name like Romano (which was her maiden name) and have such red hair.
Lots of Italians (mostly of northern origin) are fair-skinned and have red or blonde hair. Don't buy into stereotypes.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 5, 2014 7:10 PM |
Romano is not a name of Northern origin in Italy. It is used for people who came from Rome.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 5, 2014 7:42 PM |
This is it, this is it
This is life, so take a shit and eat it all
This is it, this is it
Don't be straight be a gay and masturbate your balls
And while your here don't be a Jew
Only Christianity will do
And eat your muddled poo
Cause homos are sick, homos are sick
So suck toes and feet (Suck toes and feet)
From where there's homos pissing
Eat shit from an ass
And smell his awful gas
One Time at a day (one time at a day)
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 5, 2014 7:53 PM |
[quote]Lots of Italians (mostly of northern origin) are fair-skinned and have red or blonde hair. Don't buy into stereotypes
There are many non-Irish etc people with red hair. A relative's cousin through marriage is a red haired green eyed Puerto Rican!
One of my dad's former work buddies was a red haired green eyed Italian and a close friend of mine is a blond Cuban. Isn't Cameron Diaz part Mexican?
My paternal great grandfather was a blond haired green eyed Sicilian as was his wife! Not all Sicilians have olive skin, dark hair and brown eyes. Wasn't Carmela Soprano supposed to be of Sicilian descent?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 5, 2014 7:53 PM |
Ann Romano's greatest challenge?
Trying to look as if she actually had a waist!
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 5, 2014 7:56 PM |
She died? No! Hold me David, I'm scared.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 5, 2014 8:00 PM |
RE: Ann Romano's name, what was really insane was her ex-husband was played by a guy of very obvious Italian extraction whose name was "Cooper." Strawberry-blonde, freckled, pert-nosed Ann was the one who was Italian. WTF? Once they cast those performers, why not change the surnames? It was never important to the show in any way that Ann be Italian and Ed be British/WASP.
BTW, "Italian" Ann in one episode made minestrone soup and pronounced it "min-uh-STROHN." Ugh.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 5, 2014 8:38 PM |
[quote]Ann Romano's name, what was really insane was her ex-husband was played by a guy of very obvious Italian extraction whose name was "Cooper."
You mean like me?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | March 5, 2014 8:42 PM |
Pat Cooper's real name was Pasquale Caputo, R29. Not sure I see your point.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 5, 2014 9:12 PM |
I put his real name in the signature. The point is that people CAN CHANGE THEIR NAMES. So why couldn't Ann's ex (or his father) do so as well?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 5, 2014 9:16 PM |
I'd forgotten that they added the youngster Alex to the show, in classic sitcom "jump the shark" fashion. You know a show is dying when they add a tyke.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 5, 2014 9:24 PM |
I guess he could have,though people tend to not change both names unless they're 1) in show business, or 2) criminals. Ed Cooper was a salesman or something.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 5, 2014 9:50 PM |
I think her greatest challenge was getting the world to address her properly as "MS. Romano":
Random Male Chauvinist Pig: "What can I do for you, Mrs. Romano?"
Bonnie (quietly, bravely, FIRMLY): "It's MIZ Romano."
'70s TV Audience: *applause*
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 5, 2014 10:12 PM |
Coming up with a slogan for ice cream using the devil angle.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 12, 2014 8:33 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 12, 2014 10:05 PM |
I've known a number R36. But I'm not sure hers was natural, if you know what I mean.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 12, 2014 10:08 PM |
Your suggestions are great, OP.
But I think Bonnie Franklin's greatest challenge was reining in all that talent, intelligence and hutzpah to fit the small screen.
Thank GOD she found other outlets for her amazing talents and skills.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 37 | March 12, 2014 10:12 PM |
Woody Allen and Jackie Mason are gingers.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 38 | March 12, 2014 10:17 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 12, 2014 10:35 PM |
Bonnie was oddly privileged. She went to Beverly Hills High (one of the wealthiest high schools in the country) and then went to Smith, graduating in 1961. In those days women couldn't get in to any of the Ivies, so the Seven Sisters were considered the best and most prestigious colleges in the country for women to attend--and of them, Smith was in those days considered the very best academically. So Bonnie must have been an absolutely excellent student.
I would have killed to have seen Bonnie play Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Pittsburgh Public Theater in 1998. She must have been the most annoying and hateful Martha of all time. I cannot even imagine how horrible it would have been to see her do that role--so of course I wish I had seen it!
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 12, 2014 10:37 PM |
She was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. I'm guessing that diagnosis was.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 12, 2014 10:39 PM |
Stealing the scenes from Ginny Wroblicki.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 12, 2014 10:42 PM |
Of all the actresses who were talented and funny who were the right age (and there were a number of them at the time) why the hell did Norman Lear pick Bonnie?
After the success of All in the Family, CBS kept coming to Norman Lear to ask him to create sitcoms, and he for some reason exactly had his finger on the pulse of what America wanted in the 70s, and everything he did turned to gold.
he had a weird fascination with doing TV shows about his superannoying wife Frances, who was a loud and outspoken feminist and who had a difficult relationship with their teenage daughter. So first he created "Maude" about just an outspoken feminist, and it was from the get-go an enormous #1 hit, and there he wisely cast a genius comedienne (Beatrice Arthur) in the lead role. I think he was getting his aggression out when he made "One Day at a Tome" since this time (where the relationship between the feminist and her rebellious elder daughter took center stage) he cast someone who was not funny at all but who was just deeply annoying as Ann Romano, perhaps because her annoyingness reminded him all the more of Frances.
Weirdly enough, One Day at a Time became a huge hit despite itself, mostly because what people really responded to was a TV show about a divorcee and the generation gap with her daughters: it was exactly the right time for such a show. The fact that it wasn't funny seemed to be beside the point: really, the show was more like a half-hour drama with wisecracks than a comedy.
Eventually Norman and Frances divorced and she got a HUGE divorce settlement. She used it to start Lear's Magazine, which was never really a success (though it got a lot of attention before it folded). Then she died of cancer.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 12, 2014 10:44 PM |
Glenn Scarapelli, who played Alex, grew up to be sort of hot. He's out and has an even hotter husband and they do very well for themselves in Sidona, Arizona. Here's a picture of them from about 10 tears ago--Glenn is on the left.
Glenn more recently seems to have had plastic surgery and his face now looks weird.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 46 | March 12, 2014 10:47 PM |
Veteran TV director Alan Rifkin wrote a book called "Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow." Prior to the first "ODAAT" he went to seen Bonnie Franklin in a play in LA. He couldn't believe how loud she was. As I recall, Rifkin said Bonnie's agent was the only one she would listen to...she wouldn't take any direction from him.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 12, 2014 10:49 PM |
Here's what Glenn looks like now. He's still handsome, I guess, but his face has an odd plastic quality to it.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 48 | March 12, 2014 10:49 PM |
I not only created the show but gave birth to America's greatest late in life, lesbian, sitcom mom.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 12, 2014 10:50 PM |
He obviously made the right choice, considering the many years this series aired.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 12, 2014 10:55 PM |
Probably the time when Julie was upset over Chuck having his eye on 'Trish the dish' and she had to say this line (with a straight face) "C'mon Julie, you know you're knock-out"
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 12, 2014 11:08 PM |
Bonnie Franklin's greatest challenge; Acting
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 12, 2014 11:14 PM |
having children who bore absolutely no resemblance to her.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 20, 2014 2:57 PM |
Uncrossing her teeny tiny little jew like eyes and passing for gentile.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | March 22, 2014 6:53 AM |
Julie's husband Max, played by Michael Lembeck, was sex itself.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 22, 2014 7:26 AM |
Her biggest acting challenge was not being distracted by Macenzie Phillip's horrendous skin
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 22, 2014 7:38 AM |
Trying to upstage Schneider when he was holding a hand tool.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 22, 2014 8:00 AM |
Wondering if anyone else on here is aware that Bonnie apparently bared those giant floppy tits to a horny public's eyes in a production of FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE that I believe played the Bucks County Playhouse/Pocono Playhouse circuit in like the late '80s or early '90s? I did not see it, but I remember reading an interview with Bonnie where she discussed her feelings about getting naked on stage. Reading this interview was definitely a disturbing experience for me.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 22, 2014 4:18 PM |
Dear God, can you imagine that Bozo-the-clown-orannge bush?
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 22, 2014 4:33 PM |
Get this.....YEARS ago I was contracted to design her costumes for a touring production of Annie Get Your Gun......!!!!!!!!....it never came to pass as she demanded they cut ALL the guns and Indians out of the show....dead serious.........
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 22, 2014 4:36 PM |
Keeping the secret that Barbra over stirred the cake mix- and then remedied the dilemma by backwards stirring. Very scandalous for the time!
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 22, 2014 4:53 PM |
Not being swallowed simultaneously by her orange bowl cut & the ginormous cowl neck of her orange sweater. She often looke like she was auditioning for "Little Shop of Citrus"
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 22, 2014 5:15 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 22, 2014 6:45 PM |
She made such a big impact on gay men who came of age in the 70s. She seemed both admirable (outspoken, strong) and appalling (foulmouthed, violent).
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 22, 2014 6:50 PM |
Bonnie Franklin a big impact on gay came men who came of age in the 1970s???? As a gay man who came of age in the 1970s, she had positively no impact upon me. Many gay men identified strongly with and lived vicariously through Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda and Maude. I did. Bonnie Franklin and One Day at a Time? She was shrill and strident (not in an interesting or humorous way), her fashion sense was abysmal, She had a tacky, dumpy apartment and two rebellious daughters. How in the hell could that appeal to a gay man?
Of course, I could never stand Bonnie Franklin either. She looked like H.R. Pufnstuf with the clothes to match.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 22, 2014 9:34 PM |
Her crossed eyes might have been a great challenge.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 22, 2014 9:41 PM |
[quote]Bonnie Franklin and One Day at a Time? She was shrill and strident (not in an interesting or humorous way), her fashion sense was abysmal, She had a tacky, dumpy apartment
Well, that describes exactly 95% of Dataloungers.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 22, 2014 10:11 PM |
"She made such a big impact on gay men who came of age in the 70s."
I learned the value of a sturdy bra.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 23, 2014 3:58 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 25, 2014 5:30 PM |
Claudia Lonow should've played Barbara.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | April 22, 2014 5:51 PM |
Franklin looks like one of those women toiling in a clerical job (library, hospital, college). High IQ, but maybe because of a glass ceiling, family obligations, etc. they are relegated to cube hell.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | April 22, 2014 9:42 PM |
What was Ann Romano's job?
I was never a fan of the show. Actually, I didn't like any shows where the characters lived in shabby homes and yelled a lot. Despised All in the Family and Sanford and Sons.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | April 22, 2014 9:51 PM |
Other: Her show never getting a full DVD release.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 10, 2014 6:54 AM |
"What was Ann Romano's job?"
I think she worked for an ad agency doing...I'm not sure. I remember an episode where she was feeling lonely, no man in her life. She invited a talented young man who had just started work at the company to her apartment to discuss "work." She makes a blatant pass at him and he's shocked. Later when everybody finds out what happened she's humiliated. Everybody finds out that she kissed him; "it was just a friendly kiss", she explains. "Most kisses are", Barbara said wisely. At the end of the show she tries to make things right and tells her boss that the young man has a great future with the company. And her boss tells her that the young man quit the company, no doubt due to the sexual harassment he endured. I'm not sure what the episode was trying to say; that women are capable of sexual harassment, too?
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 11, 2014 12:39 AM |
[quote]I'm not sure what the episode was trying to say; that women are capable of sexual harassment, too?
That no one wanted to kiss Ann Romano ever, for any amount of money.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 11, 2014 12:41 AM |
[quote]Other: Her show never getting a full DVD release.
Can you imagine if it did?
"Ooh, I just got the hard-to-attain season 6: where Ann and Barbara and Ann's mom perform 'Triplets' at the nursing home! Now my collection is complete!"
by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 11, 2014 12:43 AM |
[quote] Did they ever say why Ann and her ex-husband got divorced?
She wouldn't swallow.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 11, 2014 2:51 AM |
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Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 81 | July 22, 2014 3:53 PM |
Dammit Antenna TV marathon!
by Anonymous | reply 82 | July 23, 2017 1:29 AM |
Poor Bonnie gets no respect, even in death!
by Anonymous | reply 83 | July 23, 2017 4:17 AM |
Any necromancers around here who could raise Bonnie from beyond the grave?
by Anonymous | reply 85 | May 6, 2018 8:02 PM |
I think she faked her death.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | May 6, 2018 8:04 PM |
Suck it bitches. And line up to BUY it.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 87 | May 6, 2018 8:10 PM |
Kind of funny how Mac has emerged so well off now and gets steady work apart from her counseling duties.
She is also very close with Glenn and his partner.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 7, 2018 12:34 AM |
Makes sense that she faked her death.
She's still alive.
Who else would bump up this thread about this horrible, horrible woman and character.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | May 7, 2018 3:20 PM |
That time in the first season's opening credit when she crashes her car.
Seemed perky about it though.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 7, 2018 3:59 PM |
Ann Romano was always trying to have a hip conversation with the kids - by sitting on the arm of that shabby couch - with her feet (in boots) on the seat cushions. Even as a small child that seriously annoyed me.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | May 7, 2018 4:33 PM |
Bonnie Franklin and Linda Lavin, both had delusions that they were entertaining. I never understood why the audience was subjected to their tapping and singing.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 7, 2018 4:36 PM |
Overcoming the fact that NOBODY liked her.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | May 7, 2018 5:41 PM |
The fact she made Linda Lavin seem personable, talented, witty, and attractive.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | May 7, 2018 5:44 PM |
Her greatest challenge would seem to be, judging from her IMDb, getting work after the show ended.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | May 7, 2018 5:45 PM |
Getting her show released on DVD. They gave up after season one!
by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 7, 2018 5:49 PM |
Coming to terms with the fact that even many fans (all dozen of them) favorite season the is the final one, where she’s featured less prominently.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | May 7, 2018 5:51 PM |
Given the fact she died from pancreatic cancer I’d be tempted to go with that, but I’ll say her lack of Emmy recognition.
To my knowledge they never even threw her a “oh you’re still on air?” win or nom.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | May 7, 2018 5:54 PM |
Those not particularly high high notes in A Wonderful Guy.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | May 7, 2018 5:56 PM |
That post-incest revelation Mack Phillips has gotten more work than she did post-ODAAT.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | May 7, 2018 6:01 PM |
Maintaining her everywoman —suited the character! — look despite the legion of Hollywood stylists, surgeons, and makeup artists at her disposal.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 7, 2018 6:03 PM |
Being able to crack the top five
by Anonymous | reply 104 | May 7, 2018 6:21 PM |
Her appearance on the 1978 Tony Awards, where she provided a voice over narration throughout the entire broadcast.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | May 7, 2018 9:41 PM |
Norman Lear was the worst thing to ever happen to civilization.
I swear that man brought out the worst in people everywhere by their desire to watch his shows with nothing but screaming obnoxious people.
God's punishment to the human race for all its sins.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | May 7, 2018 10:09 PM |
Pity Ann Romano. Living in Indianapolis is a huge fucking challenge.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | May 7, 2018 10:53 PM |
Containing all that spunk of hers to such small, small dinner theatre venues once ODAAT ended.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | May 8, 2018 3:54 PM |
R106 is Truly Tender to the Touch
by Anonymous | reply 109 | May 8, 2018 3:58 PM |
[quote] That post-incest revelation Mack Phillips has gotten more work than she did post-ODAAT.
She's appeared on a few eps of the new ODAAT (not as Julie)
by Anonymous | reply 110 | May 8, 2018 3:59 PM |
" Getting wop on her feet. "
I thought such anti-Italian slurs had died out by that time, but no.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | May 8, 2018 4:05 PM |
Too bad Ol' Bonnie's not alive to make an appearance. She'd make the rest of the cast seem good by comparison. She could've played a dewy-eyed, tap-dancing ICE agent.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | May 8, 2018 4:07 PM |
Failing to trend on Twitter when she died.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | May 8, 2018 4:09 PM |
Glenn Scarpelli's upcoming #MeToo revelations against her.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | May 8, 2018 4:09 PM |
Getting that production of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, which she demanded contain no guns or Indians, off the ground.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | May 8, 2018 4:22 PM |
Recovering from the controversy that was that Tony Awards show her network turned into a vehicle for her.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | May 8, 2018 4:29 PM |
Remembering that monologue from the episode where she turns 36. It went on forever. It just felt like it.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | May 8, 2018 4:44 PM |
Goin' thru life with bli--
Oh, wait. That wasn't her.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | May 8, 2018 4:51 PM |
R113 Funny, since the new show is, by far, even better than the old one.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | May 8, 2018 5:19 PM |
[quote]She'd make the rest of the cast seem good by comparison.
[quote]Funny, since the new show is, by far, even better than the old one.
Faint praise. The original was truly awful. I'd rather listen to twenty-five minutes of knuckle-cracking than the (non)-talents of Ehmm-Ezzz Franklin.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | July 6, 2018 2:40 PM |
I bet Bonnie's spinning in her grave that the remake's been renewed for a third season.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | July 10, 2018 2:42 PM |
Her greatest challenge was trying to get the stink out of her pantyhose.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | July 10, 2018 2:43 PM |
How much of what people now disdain about Ann Romano is the result of Franklin's interpretation? How much of it was carried over from the way Whitney Blake created her? How much was due to Norman Lear always pushing for in-your-face delivery and situations?
by Anonymous | reply 124 | July 10, 2018 2:57 PM |
This may be the best poll in the entire history of datalounge.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | July 10, 2018 3:44 PM |
Sitting on the seat of a couch instead of the arm.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | July 11, 2018 12:05 PM |
Working with Mackenzie Phillips.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | July 11, 2018 7:30 PM |
The poor workmanship of her apartment and its building, that necessitated the employment of a full-time handyman.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | July 12, 2018 1:07 PM |
Trying to get the producers to include showcases for her "talents".
by Anonymous | reply 129 | July 12, 2018 1:08 PM |
Schneider was borderline DOABLE.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | July 12, 2018 1:11 PM |
Trying to disguise the seething rivers of rage that ran through her when Mary Louise Wilson was on camera on *her* show.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | July 12, 2018 1:13 PM |
Attempting to surpass that bafflingly fawning reviews she somehow received for APPLAUSE.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | July 12, 2018 1:15 PM |
R127, Bonnie worked with Lauren Bacall in Applause, which would have prepared her to work with anyone.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | July 12, 2018 1:16 PM |
Regarding the "One Day at a Time" reboot:
Mackenzie Phillips has appeared in 3 episodes.
Valerie Bertinelli hasn't appeared in any episodes.
Michael Lembeck (Max) directed 1 episode.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 134 | July 12, 2018 1:58 PM |
Overcoming comparisons to Justina Machurro.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | July 12, 2018 2:13 PM |
r134, Mackenzie Phillips looks really good.
It would be amazing if Mackenzie and Valerie would appear in an episode together.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | July 12, 2018 3:32 PM |
Valerie had Mackenzie as a guest on her cooking show.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 137 | July 12, 2018 4:01 PM |
It was probably challenging trying to get the BO out of those horrid cowl neck sweaters.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | July 12, 2018 4:06 PM |
It's still not too late for Valerie and Mack to do a tasteful nude pictorial together...
by Anonymous | reply 139 | July 12, 2018 5:58 PM |
Unfunny, dour main character? Hello!
by Anonymous | reply 140 | July 13, 2018 12:00 AM |
Continuing in that performance of "Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune" after several audience members threw up.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | July 13, 2018 2:44 PM |
The ODAAT filming shcedule, which dragged on (notably to Mary Louise Wilson's objections) due to Bonnie's demands that the other actors be present for her reactions in close-ups.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | July 13, 2018 2:50 PM |
Not finding employment anyway. Wasn't she an advertising executive with no prior experience, college, connections, time in the industry, likability, and little demonstrable work ethic or talent.
Well, it was the '70s.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | July 13, 2018 2:52 PM |
Trying to pretend to be happy as she saw Valerie Bertinelli and Pat Harrington win Golden Globes and an Emmy respectively.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | July 13, 2018 2:54 PM |
Living long enough to see her show that as successful as many fondly remember '70s sitcoms become almost totally forgotten once it went off air.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | July 13, 2018 2:56 PM |
Does anyone here think Schneider was doable?
by Anonymous | reply 148 | July 13, 2018 3:57 PM |
R148 Sorta in the beginning.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | July 13, 2018 4:03 PM |
R134 that may be because Val could probably get a much higher per-ep fee than Mack. Val really is the one who had the showbiz longevity, with her miniseries, other scripted series including HOT IN CLEVELAND, her cooking series, spokesperson gigs, her bestselling books and celeb marriage.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | July 13, 2018 4:34 PM |
Joseph Campanella who played Bonnie Franklin's ex husband on the show-something tells me he was VERY WELL HUNG. Michael Lembeck who played Mackenzie Philips husband on the show- I betcha he was WELL HUNG too.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | July 13, 2018 5:19 PM |
Well, Miss R152, if your sixth sense says so, why, it's as good as gospel!
by Anonymous | reply 153 | July 13, 2018 7:48 PM |
I just *know* that one of you bitches purchased THIS and framed it for your parlor wall:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 154 | July 13, 2018 8:22 PM |
Someone earlier in the thread said that Bonnie Franklin/Ann Romano didn't look Italian at all. Agreed. Her mother( Nanette Fabray)looked like a Mayflower WASP and I guess she was supposed to be Italian too.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | July 13, 2018 8:48 PM |
Actually the Norman Lear formula worked great for a few shows: "All in the Family" got the entire country talking, as did "Maude"; and Maude Findley was a hilarious creation, and Edith and Archie Bunker unforgettable ones. "The Jeffersons" could also be really funny sometimes too.
"One Day at a Time" and "Good Times" were not nearly so funny, but they were both groundbreaking: there had never been a show before about poorer African-Americans actually starring all African-Americans ("Beulah" doesn't count since she was the only black character on the show, and "Julia" was very middle-class). "One Day at a Time" was ground-breaking because there had never been a show starring a divorced mother raising kids (Vivian Vance was a divorced mother on "the Lucy Show," but she didn't talk much about being divorced and she wasn't the star). And it was much more of a drama than a comedy--in fact, it sort of paved the way for later "dramedies" that were much more high-toned, like "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd") . It was wildly unrealistic (Anne Romano didn't look Italian-American at all, and how she got that job was never explained--and the father of Julie and Barbara was never around ever when they were high school students, which wasn't really explained), and her character was deeply annoying, but it was deeply watchable until Mackenzie Phillips's Julie left the first time. She generated tons of drama--Valerie Bertinelli 's Barbara was so well adjusted that except for a few memorable episodes (such as the one where she pretends to be on the Pill, which seems to be the episode everyone remembers the most except for the one where Alex smashes the plant--it's always the episodes where Ann became physically violent that stick out most in the mind!) she wasn't very interesting despite her cuteness.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | July 13, 2018 8:54 PM |
R154
Bonnie's greatest challenge: Getting her cheques to sell for more than she made them out for.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | July 14, 2018 1:16 PM |
Passing for a teenager on Gigdet.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 159 | July 14, 2018 1:19 PM |
r159 r160 She was kind of cute when she was younger. She hit the wall hard as she got older.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | July 14, 2018 1:28 PM |
At the 1970 Theatre World Awards, with Bacall and her then lover Len Cariou, a fellow TWA recipient.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 163 | July 14, 2018 1:29 PM |
R162, Some say she was pushed.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | July 14, 2018 1:30 PM |
I get a slight lesbian vide from Bonnie Franklin. She generally had short hair over the many decades.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | July 14, 2018 1:34 PM |
Maintaining her position as star of ODAAT. Mack could outact her by a mile, Scheidner probably got too many laughs for her liking, and Val was too pretty be believable as her daughter.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | July 14, 2018 1:35 PM |
Having to wear that awful 'do to Hollywood events must've been a challenge. Did she cut it herself?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 168 | July 14, 2018 1:36 PM |
[quote]At the 1970 Theatre World Awards, with Bacall and her then lover Len Cariou, a fellow TWA recipient.
Welcome to the theater! Now get the fuck out, you talentless little bitch!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 169 | July 14, 2018 6:03 PM |
The picture at R160 looks like Travolta.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | July 14, 2018 11:01 PM |
R159: That's Barbara (Seagull) Hersey in the shot with Bonnie
by Anonymous | reply 171 | July 14, 2018 11:19 PM |
Managing to shoehorn all of her character choices -- the limp wrist on hip, the gum flapping and knowing eye roll, the overdone exasperated sigh before giving Julie/Barbara/Alex advice, the quick turn then stage jog to the door -- into as many scenes as possible.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | July 15, 2018 5:37 PM |
I'm a single mother her damn best
by Anonymous | reply 173 | July 16, 2018 7:34 PM |
I remember a friend of mine calling shrill characters in sitcoms "Ann" characters.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | September 16, 2018 4:53 PM |
PHoto of Mack in R134,
there should have been a trigger warning:
Former acne pocked 70s sitcom star has suffered the effects of gravity.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | September 16, 2018 4:55 PM |
R54, just curious why the fuck are anti-Jewish comments acceptable on DL?
by Anonymous | reply 178 | September 16, 2018 4:57 PM |
The ep where Ann kisses "Craig" inappropriately was actually one of the stronger eps of ODAAT.
Very interesting that he just flat out quits the job.
Doesn't go to HR, doesn't file a lawsuit.
I remember that Ann's boss who calls her "M S Romano" scolds her that she was wearing a low cut blouse and tight slacks when Craig came to her apartment to work.
Ann: Were they tight? Ok. So I gained a few pounds. Is it a crime to gain few pounds?
Boss: If it were, my wife would be in prison for life.
Or some such nonsense, Normally the boss's stupid quips were just that, really stupid, but in this case, the stupid joke was actually funny b/c it allowed the audience to take a break from the very serious issue of Ann making an inappropriate pass at her junior colleague.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | September 16, 2018 5:02 PM |
The jog to the door was the absolute worst.
What was BF thinking?
by Anonymous | reply 180 | September 17, 2018 2:44 AM |
Fighting off corruption in the Ukraine.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | November 21, 2019 10:07 PM |
Looking nothing like any of her blood relatives?
by Anonymous | reply 182 | June 23, 2020 2:08 PM |
I love the coalescence around 'Being funny and unlikable...'
I remember when this thread was first made!
by Anonymous | reply 183 | June 23, 2020 2:10 PM |
Exhaling loudly and blowing her hair up over her head after slamming the door on whoever was just in her apartment aggravating the shit out of her.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | June 23, 2020 2:19 PM |
Judging by her reaction, being called 'Mrs' when she took her car to the shop.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | June 23, 2020 2:21 PM |
[quote]Interior design
That speaks to both Ann's apartment and Bonnie's real house in (I think) Montecito.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | June 23, 2020 2:22 PM |
Lack of syndication royalties.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | June 23, 2020 2:23 PM |
Reduced appearances in the final season due to budget cuts.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | June 23, 2020 2:23 PM |
Stephen Sondheim writing that letter to the TONYs scolding them for cutting awards from the live show to include prolonged internal monologues from Bonnie.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | June 23, 2020 2:25 PM |
Finding a hairstyle that suited her.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | June 23, 2020 2:26 PM |
Having to work with a sky-high Mackenzie Phillips.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | June 23, 2020 2:26 PM |
Her lazy eye, which necessitated daily naps when filming.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | June 23, 2020 2:27 PM |
Having to eat those overmixed cookies.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | June 23, 2020 2:27 PM |
Fluttering her eyelids/rolling her eyes constantly. The fluttering eyelids were the worst.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | June 23, 2020 2:39 PM |
She was a very mannered actress.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | June 23, 2020 2:40 PM |
Achieving the perfect blend of laughing and crying.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | June 23, 2020 5:22 PM |
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