Linkshoch
Wonderful Movie
Colibel
Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Brainsbell
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
jj-992-101679
Best sitcom ever. As a young newlywed male with first child on the way it made me understand sexual harassment in a different way.The show was humorous but very enlightening. Way ahead of its time, wish it would come back, maybe it would help break the glass ceiling for woman. The show dealt with both verbal and physical sexual harassment before we heard of being politically correct. All That Glitters was aired late night which may have been its demise. It would be the talk of the shop for us on the midnight crew. The slapping on the butt of the male secretaries by the female executives was over the top in the 70's. This would be followed by the male secretaries pushing back the sexual advances and invitations by the female executives in fear of retribution by them.
whereismikeyfl
Many people here seem to think that this was a network program--but it was not.It was part of a new kind of programing, direct-to-syndication, that Norman Lear started with Mary Hartman. He tried to build on that success with All That Glitters, which tanked big time. The sad part was it had been on the air for a few months and had moved from foregrounding the concept to foregrounding the characters--which made it into something strange and fascinating.Maybe there is a book someone should write about the days of pre-cable, when various producers tried to find ways to avoid the heavy hand of the networks....
Bou
Nice to see that there are other fans here, and also people who began to question their own memory or sanity with respect to remembering this show! Man, I now hardly know anyone who saw it, but my then-husband and I were big fans. It didn't air in our region, and we'd use the rabbit-ears and the outside antenna to pull it in from an independent station in a neighboring state.I had considered myself a feminist for years, but I was amazed at how astute this show was in picking up how completely permeated society is with aspects of gender roles. There was always something in that show that made me do a double-take. Some of life's more offensive moments were shown for what they were and yet simultaneously rendered hilarious when role-reversed: the executive women's nearly unconscious treatment of waiters at the local bar, for example.Add me to the folks who would so appreciate it if TV Land would air these ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" too!) or if they were on DVD. Gotta love Norman Lear!
Leslye Allen (LJAllen)
"All That Glitters" was undoubtedly Norman Lear's most cutting edge work. To say that this show was ahead of its time is an understatement. Staying very much in the vein of Lear's trademark "social commentary" brand of humor, the society into which this show's characters were cast portrayed women as dominant and men as submissive and oppressed.The key to its charm was the blatant inversion of traditional gender power dynamics as well as the complete inversion of gender-based rituals and ceremonies. I recall one episode where a wedding took place where the groom--still dressed in traditional tuxedo--came down the aisle with his bouquet in hand to meet his bride waiting at the altar.As a first run syndicated television show, "All That Glitters" never had a regular "national" primetime slot which would have made more of the public aware of its existence. But one thing was sure: the sexism inflicted by the women on the men in this show didn't look any better than it has coming from men. By switching the typical gender roles, Lear managed to make both a humorous and serious statement about the ugly side of sexism without preaching––an all too rare occurrence in television. This one ended much too soon.
