Ten years after Avco Embassy tried to market Krishna Shah's offbeat domestic drama RIVALS (1972) as a horror thriller -- frequently paired with THE SPORTING CLUB, and always without success -- Jack H. Harris reissued it as SEX AND THE SINGLE PARENT. Meanwhile, the film was showing on television (as RIVALS) around the same time, as was a TV movie titled SEX AND THE SINGLE PARENT, originally aired on CBS in 1979 and starring Mike Farrell and Susan St. James.
Longview, TX - October 1, 1982
Would love to ask Klein about this picture.
ReplyDeleteI remember how Robert Klein commented on this movie on one of his comedy LPs in the '70s. He joked that "The Rivals" was playing in a theater out in Far Rockaway as part of a double bill with "Fuck Me Whip Me Kill Me Suck Me." Just imagine Klein delivering THAT faux movie title in rapid, machine-gun style! Big laughs.
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