lifestyle THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016 MUSIC & MOVIES In this June 8, 2008 file photo, producer Garry Marshall, center, accepts the legend award on stage at the TV Land In this Feb 8, 2010 file photo, Shirley MacLaine, from left, Emma Roberts, Garry Marshall, and Julia Roberts arrive at the Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. — AP photos premiere for Valentineís Day, in Los Angeles. ‘Pretty Woman’ filmmaker Garry Marshall dies at age 81 arry Marshall knew how to tug at moviegoers’ heart- Larger than life the two men kept their hand in TV. In 1970, they turned Neil he has a hot movie, that’s great. But if he has something that strings, whether with unlikely love in “Pretty Woman” or Henry Winkler, who starred as Fonzie on “Happy Days,” Simon’s Broadway hit, “The Odd Couple,” into a sitcom starring doesn’t do great, he’s not around those people who won’t Gsentimental loss in “Beaches.” But it was goofy, crowd- saluted Marshall in a tweet as “larger than life, funnier than Jack Klugman and Tony Randall and produced by Marshall. It speak to you or will make you feel terrible.” After cranking out pleasing comedy that endeared the writer and director to most, wise and the definition of friend.” He rejected retire- ran for five seasons and proved the beginning of a TV sitcom what Marshall once estimated to be 1,000 sitcom episodes, he generations of TV viewers in hit sitcoms including “Happy ment, serving as a consultant on CBS’ 2015 reboot of “The Odd empire that lives on in unending 21st-century reruns. switched his focus to the big screen with 1984’s “The Flamingo Days, “Laverne & Shirley” and “Mork & Mindy.” Marshall, who Couple,” starring Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon, and In January 1979, Marshall had three of the top five come- Kid,” a coming-of-age story starring Matt Dillon, which died Tuesday at 81, said in a 1980s interview that humor was appearing in an episode this year as Oscar’s father, Walter. dies on the air with “Happy Days,” which ran from 1974-84; Marshall wrote and directed. He concentrated on directing his necessary path in life. “In the neighborhood where we Among his final credits was “Mother’s Day,” a film released last “Laverne & Shirley” (1976-83), which starred Penny Marshall with his later films, including 1986’s “Nothing in Common,” grew up in, the Bronx, you only had a few choices. You were April starring Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Roberts. and Cindy Williams, and “Mork & Mindy” (1978-82) with new- with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason; “Overboard” (1987) star- either an athlete or a gangster, or you were funny,” the New Marshall, the brother of actress-director Penny Marshall, comer Robin Williams. ring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell; “Beaches” (1988) with Bette York native said. Marshall also had a memorable on-screen earned a degree in journalism from Northwestern University Midler and Barbara Hershey; “Pretty Woman” (1990) and “Dear presence, using his hometown accent and gruff delivery in and worked at the New York Daily News. But he found he was Targeting society God” (1996) with Greg Kinnear and Laurie Metcalf. colorful supporting roles that included a practical-minded better at writing punchlines. “The New Odd Couple,” a reboot with African-American The Gere-Roberts pairing that helped make “Pretty casino boss untouched by Albert Brooks’ disastrous luck in He began his entertainment career in the 1960s selling actors Ron Glass and Demond Wilson in the lead roles, aired Woman” a smash hit did the same for “Runaway Bride,” which “Lost in America” and a crass network executive in “Soapdish.” jokes to comedians, then moved to writing sketches for “The from 1982-83 but was less successful. Marshall defended his reunited them in 1999. “The Princess Diaries” in 2001 was He died at a hospital in Burbank, California, of complica- Tonight Show” with Jack Paar in New York. He caught the eye body of TV work, which won more viewers than honors, in his another winner, although Marshall suffered a flop with tions from pneumonia following a stroke, his publicist of comic Joey Bishop, who brought him to Los Angeles to 1995 autobiography, “Wake Me When It’s Funny,” written with “Georgia Rule” (2007), starring Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan. Michelle Bega said in a statement. An outpouring of respect write for “The Joey Bishop Show.” Sitcoms quickly proved to be his daughter, Lori Marshall. “Critics have knocked me for tar- Marshall is survived by his wife, Barbara, and the couple’s and affection quickly followed. “A great, great guy and the Marshall’s forte. He and then-writing partner Jerry Belson geting society’s lowest common denominator,” he wrote. “I three children, Lori, Kathleen and Scott. Funeral services will best casino boss in the history of film,” actor-filmmaker Brooks turned out scripts for the most popular comedies of the ‘60s, believe that television was, and still is, the only medium that be private but a memorial is being planned for his birthday on posted on Twitter. Richard Gere, who starred opposite Julia including “The Lucy Show,” “The Danny Thomas Show” and can truly reach society’s lowest common denominator and Nov 13, his publicist’s statement said. — AP Roberts in “Pretty Woman,” said in a statement that “everyone “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” entertain those people who maybe can’t afford a movie or a loved Garry. He was a mentor and a cheerleader and one of Marshall and Belson detoured into screenwriting in 1967 play. So why not reach them and do it well?” he said. the funniest men who ever lived. He had a heart of the purest with “How Sweet It Is,” starring Debbie Reynolds, and followed Penny Marshall told The New York Times in 2001 that her gold and a soul full of mischief. He was Garry.” it up with “The Grasshopper” (1970) with Jacqueline Bisset. But brother “has a life. He’s not into the show business glitterati. If Lady Gaga says ‘taking break’ from relationship ady Gaga said Wednesday she was “taking a break” from her relationship with actor Taylor Kinney but still hoped Lto reconcile with her “soulmate.” The pop diva comment- ed after celebrity gossip sites said she and Kinney had broken off their engagement and pointed out she was no longer wearing her ring. “Taylor and I have always believed we are soulmates. Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break,” she wrote on Instagram early yesterday to her nearly 18 million followers. Gaga, who also shared the message with her more than 61 million Twitter fol- lowers, did not address marriage plans but indicated that the relationship was not completely over. “We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through In this Tuesday, July 12, 2016 file photo, John Cho, from left, Idris Elba, director Justin Lin, In this image released by Paramount Pictures, from left, Anton Yelchin, Chris Pine and long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the Simon Pegg and Lydia Wilson pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the John Cho appear in a scene from, ‘Star Trek Beyond.’ simple love we have always shared,” she wrote. “Please root us film ‘Star Trek Beyond’ in London. — AP photos on. We’re just like everybody else and we really love each oth- er.” Gaga had long spoken of her difficulties in keeping part- ners due to her professional success and brazen sexuality. But the 30-year-old has said that she found the right match in Kinney, 35, who has starred in television series “Chicago Fire” and “The Vampire Diaries” as well as the thriller “Zero Dark ‘Star Trek Beyond’ gracefully finds orbit amid tragedy Thirty” about the killing of September 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Gaga met Kinney in 2011 when they filmed the video for hen the “Star Trek Beyond” cast and filmmakers gathered ever is. But the “Beyond” crew had an insanely short window to another before the film came out, and one of their youngest, in “You & I”-which features scenes of her being tortured-in the in Los Angeles last month for Anton Yelchin’s funeral, work with. By the time Pegg, Jung and Lin started on the story, it Yelchin who was only 27 when he died after being struck by his open fields of Nebraska. Kinney proposed to Gaga, an Italian they had a decision to make. Their film, the third in the was the end of January 2015. They had to start filming in June. own car last month. When the accident happened, Yelchin’s work W American whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, over a rebooted series, was coming out in less than a month and a rigor- “Justin was in a situation that no director should ever be in: on the film was finished, but Lin was still a few weeks away from Valentine’s Day dinner last year at a New York restaurant ous press tour was imminent. They could either put themselves Prepping a movie that wasn’t written yet,” Pegg said. completion, and so part of his and his post-production crew’s owned by her family. Gaga, known for her flamboyant outfits, out there to promote the film in the raw and devastating weeks There was already a crew in Vancouver waiting for directions mourning involved revisiting all of Yelchin’s takes - something Lin quickly made the engagement public by showing off a simple, following the death of their beloved co-star, or they could with- on what to build for the set.