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Ernest Pascucci
Intimate TelevisionsShortly after the completion of New York's Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in 1966, that building made its network television debut on That Girl, as Marlo Thomas danced between its placards in the climactic scene of the show's opening credits. In 1973 television upstaged architecture once again: A full two months before Philip Johnson proudly presented his IDS Center, Minneapolis's new indoor downtown, in the journal Architectural Forum, the Mary Tyler Moore Show updated the opening credits for the show's fourth season. The outdoor location shots that had once led up to Mary's famous toss of her blue hat were now replaced with a majestic image of Mary reaching the top of the escalator in the IDS Center's Crystal Court: The malling of Minneapolis had been announced ahead of schedule. more...
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