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Did Susan Lucci get this role because of her Italian ancestry or because she’s a LADY?
Point of interest, it’s a feature, not a short.
Director John Llewellyn Moxey directed San Francisco International. Cinematographer Tim Suhrstedt was cinematographer for City Limits. While Floyd Levine (Mob Boss #2) did appear on The Master, it was not in any of the episodes used in the Master Ninja “movies” shown on MST3K.
I’m really looking forward to this one. Back in the Very Dark Ages of my youth I used to watch All My Children, so I’m already imagining a mobster with an amazing wardrobe and flawless makeup. And I’m sure that Susan Lucci will be bringing her very broad acting skills to the role, which means it’s going to be Erica Kane trying out the mobster lifestyle for a week. Good stuff!
A review from a user on IMDb.com:
“Low rent mafia-themed TV movie. LADY MOBSTER is a low rent television movie set in the world of the mafia. The main character is a woman whose parents were bumped off by hit men, leading her on a lifelong vendetta to find and bring to justice those responsible; she does this by committing murder herself. This one was helmed by Argentinian director John Llewellyn Moxey, who previously handled such classics as THE CITY OF THE DEAD and THE NIGHT STALKER, but it’s one of his lesser works. The unknown cast members are forced to play stereotypes rather than real characters, and despite some violent incident this doesn’t have much in the way of suspense.”
This was John Llewellyn Moxey‘s last film.
When TV Guide was still the size of a frozen box of peas, their soap opera columnist stated that Susan Lucci would have won the Daytime Emmy years earlier, but she kept submitting bad clips.
(sigh) When TV Guide still had listings, wrote articles on the FCC, TV violence and corporate NFL, and wasn’t a Tiger Beat fan-mag for binge-TV girls. :(
Back when they still HAD columnists who could write on soap operas, TV-movies, and network series.
But is she once, twice, or three times a lady?
Thanks for pointing it out. That’s what happens when I cut and paste. I’ve updated the heading.
I remember that halcyon time well. We had TV Guide to lead us through the impenetrable thicket of channels 2,4,5,7, and 9, unless the weather was bad, which cut us out of 5 (Dumont).
And I hate our modern cultural wasteland, in which our access to the informed thoughts of expert writers on soap operas, TV movies, and network series has degenerated to near zero.
Would that some miracle of science in the service of technology permit us to look back through time,to view ourselves those same programs of which TV Guide’s columnists wrote so skilfully, so that we might bring our own thirty, forty, even fifty years’ subsequent education and personal experience to bear, and form our own bloody opinions.
why, back in my day we didn’t even have TV Guide.
we just had to tilt our heads to the side and kinda squint to figure out what those moving pictures inside that funny-looking box were all about
these days, I’m *still* not sure what all those moving pictures are doing!
TV Guide went through two owners–The classic highbrow TV Guide of the 70’s was sold off to Gemstar, which wanted to use the magazine to promote those six-digit VCR+ numbers, which were useful, but we lost the magazine’s brain in the bargain…All of a sudden, every other issue was Pop-Culture Baby-Boomer TV-Nostalgia Listicles of the “100 Greatest TV Episodes”, “20 Sexiest Stars”, etc. The company also owned those satellite feeds that put interesting stuff in the top half of the cable-channel scroll, and we also got the TV Guide Channel, to run off said lists. One of the more frequent coming from their buying the rights to JumptheShark.com and copyrighting that trademark, to give us endless lists of Cousin Oliver and Roseanne’s Lottery Ticket.
But anyway, Susan Lucci: Even without Emmys, she was enjoying a cottage industry in playing stock villains in network TV-movies that (ahem) eventually sank into cheap public domain on Amazon Prime.
“Invitation to Hell” is actually one of the better ones, directed by Wes Craven during his early-80’s pre-Elm Street “TV exile” phase: https://www.amazon.com/Invitation-Hell-Robert-Urich/dp/B082BG2ZBM
Sometimes it’s better not to know.
TV Guide went through three owners: Walter Annenberg, whose own management had already fully dumbed down TV Guide by 1989, when he sold it to Rupert Murdoch. Gemstar didn’t buy it from Murdoch until eleven years later, and did what they could to catch up with the new reality of cable and programmable VCRs.
As for the “classic highbrow” nature of Seventies’ TV Guide, it’d be instructive to look back on Cleveland Amory’s columns to refresh my golden memories of his deathless prose, except that all that remains of Cleveland Amory in print are his cat books. Same horrible fate as the SEP’s Adventures of the Mind.
I discard Susan Lucci in favor of Lanell Cado.
Gemstar wasn’t “catching up”, they OWNED the VCRPlus+ technology, which was common in most devices by the late 90’s, and even newspaper TV listings were publishing the codes. That made TV Guide more useful as reference manuals for those of us who had the new enabled recorders, even though there wasn’t much left to read in the slick pages anymore. Even the “Close Up” listing sidebars, which usually guaranteed a moment of TV history in the making, eventually disappeared.
But anyway–So, B&MJ dug up another PD Prime title with “Women” or “Ladies” in it, and went for that New Women-In-Comedy humor.
At this point, it’s starting to become the female equivalent of that running Simpsons joke about Bart & Millhouse sneaking into “cool” R-rated movies: You can see B&MJ bragging “We’re going to do ‘Lady in the Water’!”, and appear on the cover in mermaid tails and Esther Williams bathing caps.
(Disclaimer: Not that I think someone shouldn’t do “Lady in the Water”, but they’d have to know what they were up against, first.)
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It’s a neverending with this clown. Once he’s tired of smugly pontificating on ancient pop culture he goes back to taking digs at the riffers. How are YOUR riffs doing? Oh yeah – ya got none!