The article makes he son’s death sound like it wasn’t suicide but accidental.
You’re right. Sometimes real life and film roles become so similar, people get them mixed up. Especially here. Mary’s real break from ‘silly office girl to serious television producer’ happened in 1980, when she starred in Ordinary People. Ordinary People just happened to be about the accidental death of an older son in an affluent family.”
I think MTM productions developed into a prototype of what later became Fox Cable TV.