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Growing Pains
International names:
China: ChengZhang de FanNao (?????) - (Growing up's Agony) France: Quoi de neuf docteur? - (What is new doctor? or What's up doc?) Germany: Unser lautes Heim - (Our loud home) Italy: Genitori in blue jeans - (Parents in blue jeans) Japan: Yukai na Seaver Ke (????????) - (Happy Seaver's family) Latin America: Ay! Cómo duele crecer - (Ouch! Growing up hurts) Spain: Los Problemas Crecen - (Problems grow)
After Cameron's religious conversion, his beliefs frequently interfered with production of the show. He insisted that no "adult themes" be incorporated into episodes, and he often demanded that entire episodes be re-written when he objected to the content (when one planned episode revolved around Julie giving Mike the key to her apartment, Cameron objected to the sexual connotations, and he forced a new script to be written). According to the Growing Pains episode of E! True Hollywood Story, Cameron at one point went so far as to call the president of ABC on the phone and refer to executive producers Dan Guntzelman, Mike Sullivan and Steve Marshall as pornographers due to the content of some of the episodes. In 1991, after the show's sixth season, the three men quit the show as a result of Cameron's actions and statements.
In 2003, according to the article "The Rebirth of Kirk Cameron" in Christianity Today, Cameron "admits he made some mistakes common to new believers — such as distancing themselves so far from the world that they do no good for anyone ... In time, however, he realized his missteps. In 2000, he rejoined his former cast members for a Growing Pains reunion movie. He stood in front of his TV family and apologized for his behavior. 'I was a 17-year-old guy trying to walk with integrity, knowing that I was walking in the opposite direction from many other people. I didn't have the kind of maturity and graceful way of putting things perhaps that I would now,' he says. Cameron's fellow actors immediately embraced him."
At the beginning of the seventh season, a new character, Luke Brower (played by a then-unknown Leonardo DiCaprio) was introduced in a last-ditch attempt to salvage ratings, but the show was cancelled at the end of the season.
In addition to the problems with Cameron, the show's constant references to Carol Seaver as "fat" (notwithstanding her normal weight and size for her age) took their toll on Tracey Gold. Although it was brushed off as "it's not you, it's the character," the producers were unaware that Gold had a history of eating problems, and the constant insults eventually triggered in Gold a serious case of anorexia nervosa. She eventually had to leave the show, and did not return until the final episode, for which she had to leave the hospital where she was still undergoing treatment.
ALSO,
Talented Mr. Ripley was filmed in the province of Italy adjacent to Abruzzo, where my ancestors are from. :) |