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Anything But Chemistry
by dennis sampson
Anything But Love: Volume One
Wendy Kout, Dennis Koenig, George Zateslo, Sheree Guitar, Judd Pillot, John Peaslee, Barbara Hall, Peter Noah, Bruce Rasmussen, Janis Hirsch, Bill Diamond, Michael Saltzman, Lloyd Garver, Billy Van Zandt, Jane Milmore, Alan Kirschenbaum, Martin Sage, Sybil Adelman,
Bill Barol
Created by Wendy Kout and Dennis Koenig
 
 
A hybrid of relationship sitcom and office-based comedy, Anything but Love, ran on ABC from 1989-1992. Hannah (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Marty (Richard Lewis) are co-workers at the Chicago Monthly, strongly attracted to each other, but hesitant to spoil their friendship with a romantic entanglement. Anything but Love serves as a model of the innocuous, middle-of-the road storylines and circumstances that have come to define the multi-camera sitcom. The glaring lack of chemistry between Lewis and Curtis doesn't help the romcom elements any. What worked for Moonlighting falls flat here, leaving us with characters who have no earthly reason to get together. Cast and director commentaries on varying episodes and production featurettes round out extras that trade details on the writing process for on-the-set tidbits.
Anything But Love: Volume One
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Not rated; 732 min.
$39.98
Buy it now
Dennis Sampson is a commercial production coordinator and unproduced screenwriter. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his better half, Susan, and their dog Tripp.
Anything But Love: Volume One courtesy 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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