here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\tAt ABC, Sunshine and his wife wrote and produced for Webster<\/em>, starring Emmanuel Lewis, Alex Karras and Susan Clark, from 1983-86 and wrote for The Latest Odd Couple<\/em>, starring Ron Glass and Demond Wilson in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\tAfter teaming with Edwards on the script for Son of the Pink Panther<\/em> (1983), which starred Roberto Benigni as Inspector Clouseau\u2019s illegitimate son, they developed the 1992 ABC sitcom Julie<\/em>, starring Edwards\u2019 wife Julie Andrews as a TV personality who marries a veterinarian (James Farentino) and moves along with his family to Iowa. (The show was canceled after six episodes.)<\/p>\n\n\tHe and his wife also developed for CBS the 1989 sitcom The People Next Door<\/em>, which starred Jeffrey Jones as a cartoonist. That show, co-created by Wes Craven, lasted just five episodes.<\/p>\n\n\tBorn within the Bronx on March 9, 1945, Sunshine graduated from the University at Buffalo before making his approach to Hollywood.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe and Madeline, also a novelist, published children\u2019s creator and playwright, were married for 56 years. They were behind Serrano the Musical<\/em>, a theatrical production directed by Joel Zwick that combined elements of Cyrano de Bergerac and Tony Soprano.<\/p>\n\n\tSunshine also co-directed with Howie Mandel and Reed Grinsell the 2012 documentary Committed<\/em>, about writer-performer Vic Cohen, and was a founding member of the Creative Coalition, which helped provide those in Hollywood with accurate political information of their capability as media sources and public speakers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Steven Sunshine, the writer-producer who worked along with his wife, Madeline Sunshine, on the TV shows Webster and The Latest Odd Couple and on the Blake Edwards film Son of the Pink Panther, has died. He was 81. Sunshine died March 15 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, after a battle with progressive supranuclear palsy, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20669],"tags":[1958,2426,39666,9770],"class_list":["post-314584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hollywood","tag-couple","tag-odd","tag-webster","tag-writer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314587,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314584\/revisions\/314587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}