It's hard to believe, but in 1990, ROBERT MITCHUM starred in a sitcom called A Family For Joe, about a homeless man who poses as the grandfather of a bunch of adorable orphans so they won't have to be taken away by child services.
Mitchum? Sitcom? Little kids? Yeah, it was a disaster by all accounts, only very few people have ever seen it. Clips are now up on YouTube and it's just as dreadful as its reputation. And look, that's a young Juliette Lewis, who'd go on to star in the 'Cape Fear' remake.
Everybody Loves Raymond's co-creator Phil Rosenthal, who got his first job in Hollywood as a writer on the series, recently talked about his time on the show.
As this Macleans article states, "It’s every bit as bad as Rosenthal’s description makes it sound, so the one thing to enjoy is how much Mitchum clearly does not love the adorable orphans and how completely he signals his boredom with the whole thing. Rosenthal says that he tried to introduce The Night of the Hunter to the cast and crew and was depressed when they laughed at it. But the show itself only works if you assume Mitchum is really playing the same guy from Night of the Hunter and is plotting to murder all these people after the cheesy synth music dies down and the credits roll."
Hee, that is genius!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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