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Jul 29, 2007 · Stephanie Furman, Nicholas Darrow. Share full article. ... She is a daughter of Frieda Furman and Roy Furman of New York. Her father, a vice chairman of Jefferies & Company, a New York investment ...
Stephanie Furman Darrow. Producer: The Odd Couple. Stephanie Furman Darrow is known for The Odd Couple (2015), 9JKL (2017) and Fam (2019). She has been married to Nicholas Darrow since 28 July 2007.
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- An Oral History of The Amazing Race Season One
- Part One Before The Race
- Part Two During The Race
- Part Three After The Race
Part One: Before the Race 1. Conceiving: ‘I love this idea’ 2. Planning: ‘Logistically, it was a bloody nightmare’ 3. Casting: ‘The heart of the show’ 4. Finding a host: ‘100 percent the guy’ 5. Waiting: ‘They did not know what to expect’ Part Two: During the Race 1. Starting: ‘The world is waiting for you’ 2. Filming: ‘Constantly on the move’ 3. C...
Conceiving: ‘I love this idea’
The Amazing Race was famously born from a conversation between Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri, who are married. Doganieri worked in advertising, while Van Munster had worked on Fox’s Cops and produced a syndicated nature documentary series, Wild Things, which was filmed around the world. Elise Doganieri, executive producer and co-creator: “Bert came from MIPCOM, and said he didn’t see anything new. I was like, What is going on with people in television? Why can’t you guys come up wit...
Planning: ‘Logistically, it was a bloody nightmare’
Elise Doganieri: “Bert put a big map up on the wall in the office, and he laid out the route. The next thing you know, we’re buying tickets, getting visas.” Bertram van Munster:“We scouted these routes three times. The first time, with a small team; the second time, I would bring some of my executive producers with me, only to the location where they would be assigned to.” Elise Doganieri: “We don’t do it that way anymore, because we’ve become super-efficient and things have gotten very expen...
Casting: ‘The heart of the show’
Lynne Spillman: “To me, yes, absolute fantasy: racing around the world with, at the time, my husband or sister, for a million dollars? I could not think of anything more fun. I asked to do the show and Ghen says, I think you could. I’ll introduce you to the right people, I’ll introduce you to the production company.I met with Bertram Van Munster and [Jerry Bruckheimer’s president of television] Jonathan Littman, and I thought they were great. I was worried because I was very pregnant.” Stepha...
Starting: ‘The world is waiting for you’
The Amazing Race season one began in Central Park, where Phil Keoghan faced the contestants and said the words he’d landed on: “What you do after that is completely up to you. All right everyone: The world is waiting for you. I want to wish all of you the best of luck. Travel safe. Go!” Brady Connell:“You see the teams rushing towards their backpacks, but you don’t see is the 11 camera teams just standing there lined up, ready to go wherever they went.” Phil Keoghan: “It was a build up, build...
Filming: ‘Constantly on the move’
Brady Connell:“We’ve wound this thing up. You let it go and see what happens. We weren’t afraid of it; we knew we had hired the best camera operators and the best sound people to do this run.” Evan Weinstein: “Survivor was certainly in our minds, but the big difference, of course, between Survivor and Race is that Survivor is sitting in one place. Even though it may be a foreign land, they essentially set up a studio show where they have departments and all that kind of stuff, and Raceis cons...
Challenging: ‘Swing, you fat bastard!’
Once the contestants left for South Africa, the first of nine countries they’d visitacross 13 legs, they stopped in South Africa on their way to Zambia, where they encountered the show’s first-ever challenge at Victoria Falls. Challenges tried to highlight local culture and produce great television. Evan Weinstein: “With Survivor, I think the challenge is always a big Hollywood game that has been plunked down wherever it is, and then it’s designed to look like whatever the environment is, whe...
Editing: ‘We had to make it as exciting as possible’
CBS originally planned to air The Amazing Race in the summer of 2001, a year after Survivor: Borneofound ratings success. Ghen Maynard: “Because Amazing Race was going to be the follow-up to Survivor, people [at the network] were curious to see something. So I put together like a little 15-minute taste from the first episode—which wasn’t even yet done—and played it before the upfronts, and everyone was so wowed. I had a feeling this would happen. If it didn’t, then I would have to go with my...
Premiering: ‘Holy crap, this is a television show?’
Phil Keoghan: “Bertram and Elise had a vision for what the show was. The execution of an idea is crucial. How many great ideas have been squandered because of just horrendous execution? This show had the right people, the right set of skills, the right design, the right ingredients. Thankfully, we ended up with something that we’re all really proud of.” Brennan Swain: “CBS really tried to make sure we didn’t make any changes, because obviously the team that makes the changes, there’s chance m...
Coping: ‘What happened to America’
The day before the second episode of The Amazing Racewas scheduled to premiere was Sept. 11, 2001. The Amazing Race season one was still in post-production, and pre-production for season two was well underway. Kevin O’Connor:“I was walking in New York City to go to work and people were like, ‘Swing you fat bastard!’ This is amazing, the reach of network television. So it was an amazing week—and then, of course, the worst thing in my lifetime happened.” Margarita Mesa: “I had family members th...
Stephanie Furman Darrow. Producer: The Odd Couple. Stephanie Furman Darrow is known for The Odd Couple (2015), 9JKL (2017) and Fam (2019). She has been married to Nicholas Darrow since 28 July 2007.
Stephanie Furman Darrow is an American television producer and writer. She is also the co-producer and writer in the reboot CBS comedy series The Odd Couple. She is the best known for writer of television series Friends with Better Lives , 9JKL and Fam . She is married to Nicholas Darrow. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless ...
Matthew Perry, Donick Cary, Tucker Cawley, Emily Cutler, Bob Daily, Garrett Donovan, Stephanie Furman Darrow, Tom Hertz, Danny Jacobson, Joe Keenan, Dan O'Shannon ...
Clarence Darrow was born in rural northeastern Ohio. He was the son of Amirus Darrow and Emily (Eddy) Darrow. Both the Darrow and the Eddy farms had deep roots in colonial New England, and several of Darrow's ancestors served in the American Revolution. Clarence's father was an ardent abolitionist and a proud iconoclast and religious freethinker, known in town as the "village infidel." Emily ...
