August 18 - 24, 2024
Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung and Minha Kim return for Season 2 of “Pachinko,” premiering Friday, Aug. 23, on Apple TV+. Minha Kim stars in “Pachinko”
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BY JAY BOBBIN
Jamie Lee Curtis OF OPERATION PETTICOAT ON ABC Q: I understand that one of Jamie Lee Curtis’s first jobs was on a TV series called “Operation Petticoat.” Was that based on the movie of the same name that her father Tony starred in? A: It was. She was a regular cast member in the first season of the show, which aired in 1977 and 1978 on ABC, and she played one of the Army nurses rescued by a submarine crew in the South Pacific during World War II … and the women then stayed on board, giving the sitcom its premise. That was very much the same plot as the 1959 film, directed by Blake Edwards, that starred Tony Curtis and Cary Grant (the latter also a producer of the picture through his own company). In the TV version, John Astin assumed the role of the ship’s commander, first played by Grant, with Richard Gilliland in Curtis’s earlier part. It’s interesting to note that one of the movie’s supporting players was Gavin MacLeod, who would become a “skipper” himself years later as Captain Merrill Stubing on the popular series “The Love Boat.” For Jamie Lee Curtis, “Operation Petticoat” was one of many series made by Universal Television that she appeared on around that time; others included “Quincy, M.E.,” “Columbo” and “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.” After she left “Operation Petticoat” (which replaced much of its first-year cast for what turned out to be a short second season), she quickly made a bigger mark for herself in a movie that primarily defined her screen image for many years afterward, the original 1978 version of the thriller “Halloween.” Last year, Curtis became an Oscar winner for her performance in 2022’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which also earned her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, among a number of other honors.