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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 7 January 2017
‘One Day at a Time’ gets a modern makeover on Netflix

LYNN ELBER ing-of-age celebration for
AP Television Writer Latinas — as outdated and
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tele- sexist, leading to a clash
vision’s enthusiastic attic- with her mother. Religion,
rummaging for old shows immigration and sex are
to resurrect isn’t abating. among other topics woven
With an increasing num- into the show’s 13 episodes
ber of outlets in need of released together Friday.
content, original ideas are Viewers have shown them-
augmented by reboots selves willing to accept di-
and sequels including “The versity as part of the new
X-Files,” ‘’Fuller House,” sitcom model, with “black-
‘’Gilmore Girls” and, de- ish,” ‘’Fresh Off the Boat”
buting on Netflix, “One Day and “Jane the Virgin”
at a Time.” among the proof. Calde-
But it may be unfair to ron Kellett says authenticity
put Netflix’s sitcom in that is the key to creating char-
company. Yes, it has origi- acters that carry across ra-
nal producer Norman Lear cial and cultural lines.
aboard. Yes, it’s about a “I don’t feel like we need
mom raising two children to water it down to appeal
without benefit of their fa- to more people. I feel like
ther. And yes, it’s a tradi- being specific we’re going
tional multi-camera com- This image released by Netflix shows Rita Moreno, from left, Marcel Ruiz and Justina Machado in to appeal to more peo-
edy with a (restrained) a scene from “One Day at a Time.” The series, a remake of the 1970’s-80’s Norman Lear TV series, ple,” she said.q
centers on a Cuban-American family. It debuts on Netflix on Sunday.
laugh track. Associated Press
In many other ways, it’s al-
together its own show. what I am.” family stress and her mili-
The 1975-84 CBS series An award-winning play- tary experiences. On hand
broke ground by featuring wright who proved her to help and hinder are
a divorced Midwesterner, TV chops with “Devious Penelope’s mom Lydia,
on her own and struggling Maids” and “How I Met played by the remarkable
to re-enter the job mar- Your Mother,” she’d been Rita Moreno, and a hipper
ket and care for her two approached before about Schneider (Todd Grinnell).
daughters. Bonnie Frank- doing a project based on The kids are outspoken
lin, Mackenzie Phillips and her family, including her teen Elena (Isabella Go-
Valerie Bertinelli starred, Cuban immigrant parents. mez) and younger, image-
with Pat Harrington Jr. as But her protectiveness to- conscious Alex (Marcel
Schneider, the apartment ward them held her back. Ruiz).
building superintendent. A conversation with Lear, It all sets up the kind of so-
This time around, mom is he of “All in the Family,” cial and political stories
a former military medic ‘’Maude” and more hits, that are Lear’s trademark. In this Feb. 26, 2008 file photo, from left, Bonnie Franklin, MacK-
now working as a nurse in changed that. In the first episode, Elena enzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli and Pat Harrington, of the 1970’s
television sitcom “One Day at a Time,” were reunited for a seg-
Los Angeles, with a boy “I felt very comfortable rejects having a quincean- ment of the NBC “Today” television program in New York.
and a girl to raise. She’s with Norman, and obvi- ara — a traditional com- Associated Press
separated from her hus- ously his pedigree speaks
band, who’s decided to for itself,” she said.
remain in the service. And Royce, joining Calderon Viggo Mortensen to kick
she’s got her own mom on Kellett to discuss the show,
credits, including “Every- off film festival in his NY
hand, enlarging her sup- brings his own impressive
port circle beyond Sch-
neider (a mainstay of the body Loves Raymond” hometown
original that stuck). and “Men of a Certain
Another change: the first Age.” He also contrib- WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Viggo Mortensen will
“One Day” family was utes the parent-of-teens return to his northern New York hometown this
white, this one is Cuban- perspective that Calde- month to kick off a film festival with a screening
American, with charac- ron Kellett, mother to two of his 2016 movie “Captain Fantastic.”
ters and stories that are a younger children, has yet Organizers of the Snowtown Film Festival say the
reflection, in part, of ex- to achieve. 58-year-old actor will be in Watertown on Jan.
ecutive producer Gloria Both credit Lear, 94, with 27 for the screening, which will be preceded by
Calderon Kellett’s own giving them the freedom a “flannel-casual” red carpet and followed by a
life. The stage and screen to use his earlier series as panel session featuring Mortensen.
writer is working with fellow the starting point, not a Mortensen graduated from Watertown High
executive producers Lear, template. “Who is the sin- School and St. Lawrence University in northern
Mike Royce and Michael gle mom of today?” Lear New York. His other films include “The Lord of the
Garcia. asked them, the producers Rings” trilogy and “Eastern Promises.”
“As a Latina writer, it’s all of said. He has been nominated for multiple awards for
a sudden very in fashion, What emerged was Pe- his starring role in “Captain Fantastic.” He plays In this July 11, 2016 file photo, actor
the Latino voice,” Calder- nelope, played by Justina the father of six children faced with suddenly Viggo Mortensen participates in AOL’s
BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the film
on Kellett said, adding tart- Machado (“Six Feet Un- coping with society after being raised off the “Captain Fantastic” in New York.
ly, “I thought it was great der”), who appears rock- grid in the Pacific Northwest forests.q Associated Press
forever, because that’s solid but grapples with