Moonlighting: An Oral History

Glenn Gordon Caron's Moonlighting was a groundbreaking television series of the 1980s, featuring the sizzling on-screen chemistry between Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. It paved the way for the era of prestige television and produced some of the most acclaimed, audacious, and innovative programming of the time. Author Scott Ryan conducted over twenty interviews with the actors, writers, directors, and producers to delve deep into their thoughts and feelings as they relive this magical moment in pop culture history.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 288 pages
\n Publication date: 01 June 2021
\n Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press
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Once upon a time, ABC-TV's Moonlighting was one of the most talked-about shows in the country, thanks to the audacity of creator Glenn Gordon Caron and the sizzling on-screen chemistry between glamorous former film star Cybill Shepherd and a New Jersey bartender named Bruce Willis, who bickered and flirted ceaselessly on screen and engaged in epic off-screen battles that all these years later remain the stuff of Hollywood legend. This combustible blend of creative brilliance produced some of the most acclaimed, audacious, and innovative programming of the 1980s, including a black-and-white tribute to film noir, with an introduction by Orson Welles; a parody of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, written in iambic pentameter; an homage to The Honeymooners; and countless metafictional episodes breaking through the fourth wall — almost unheard of at the time for hourlong comedy-dramas. Without a doubt, Moonlighting helped pave the way for the era of prestige television we are now all enjoying.

The real story of this pioneering television series and the extraordinary behind-the-scenes challenges, battles, and rewards has never been told — until now, Author Scott Ryan (The Last Days of Letterman, thirtysomething at thirty: an oral history, The Blue Rose, Scott Luck Stories) conducted over twenty interviews with the actors, writers, directors, and producers who made Moonlighting such a dynamic, unforgettable show, delving deep into their thoughts and feelings as they relive this magical moment in pop culture history in this full-color oral history.

New Interviews with:

Cybill Shepherd (Maddie Hayes)

Allyce Beasley (Ms. Dipesto)

Curtis Armstrong (Herbert Viola)

Glenn Gordon Caron

\n Weight: 536g\n
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781949024265\n \n