{"id":1197,"date":"2018-12-19T11:56:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:44:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:44:59","slug":"remembering-penny-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2018\/12\/remembering-penny-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Penny Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many people were saddened yesterday when news broke that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/18\/entertainment\/reactions-to-penny-marshalls-death\/\">Penny Marshall<\/a> had passed away at the age of 75.\u00a0 Such a talented lady.<\/p>\n<p>Penny brought us Laverne DeFazio &#8211; that adorable character on the show Laverne and Shirley.\u00a0 I watched it.\u00a0 The theme song is still one of my favourites.\u00a0 &#8220;Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IAnecJl_Z1A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The show brought us so many laughs. Laverne and Shirley, and Lenny and Squiggy too.<\/p>\n<p>But she was more than that.\u00a0 Her brother Garry, got her interested in directing and actually made her debut as a director while starring on Laverne and Shirley, directing four episodes.\u00a0 In 1979, she directed several episodes of the short-lived sitcom Working Stiffs, starring Michael Keaton and James Belushi. She moved on to films, her first the 1986 movie Jumpin&#8217; Jack Flash\u00a0 starring Whoopi Goldberg. She got the job when the original director dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to direct several other big box office hits including Big (1988) starring Tom Hanks (the first film directed by a woman to gross over US$100 million), Awakenings (1990) starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, A League of Their Own (1992) with Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna and Rosie O&#8217;Donnell, and The Preacher&#8217;s Wife (1996) starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston. In 1991, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.<\/p>\n<p>Penny Marshall wanted her legacy to be &#8220;I hope I gave you some enjoyment&#8221;.\u00a0 You succeeded.\u00a0 Penny, you will be missed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X5JbiDNIsj4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y5CKd4CqImU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So many people were saddened yesterday when news broke that Penny Marshall had passed away at the age of 75.\u00a0 Such a talented lady. Penny brought us Laverne DeFazio &#8211; that adorable character on the show Laverne and Shirley.\u00a0 I watched it.\u00a0 The theme song is still one of my favourites.\u00a0 &#8220;Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[400,401,399],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-laverne-and-shirley","tag-laverne-defazio","tag-penny-marshall"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 05:36:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2018\/12\/remembering-penny-marshall\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}