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Over his long and distinguished career, Myhrum worked on a wide variety of projects, most notably as the director of "Sesame Street" and numerous soap operas, including "Secret Storm...
Myhrum eventually left network TV and became a freelance director. With his own production company he worked on everything imaginable, from Giants football to the Philharmonic. However, his favorite shows were those that maintained a pseudo-live quality, such as soap operas and "Sesame Street...
...Hall, a soap opera writer and a friend of Myhrum, calls Myhrum "a marvelous director" who maintained high professional standards in a field known for its sleaze...
...ancillary markets) is nearly as naive as Truman. The show is also pretty tame. Unlike most daytime-drama characters, Truman is a faithful husband who has no evil twin and does not suffer bouts of amnesia. For 30 years the show has been a pageant of placidity, a hypoallergenic soap opera where the tension is in the subtext. Will he find out? How's it going...
...TRUMAN SHOW (June 5). Truman Burbank is the only man on earth who doesn't know he's the star of a popular 24-hour soap opera. As Truman, Jim Carrey inhabits director Peter Weir's bogus universe with a heroic gentility. But will Carrey's rowdy fans skip Truman? Or will the audience that might appreciate an adult parable stay home because, hey, it's just a Jim Carrey movie? One industry savant says not to worry: this canny film will reach both groups and gross $200 million...