Thirty-five years ago, before L.A.'s homelessness epidemic exploded into a humanitarian crisis, the vast divide separating the city's haves from its have-nots was skewered in a very progressive studio comedy.
In 1984, just a few days after taking over as CEO of the then-floundering Disney, former Paramount chief Michael Eisner got a call from ICM's Sam Cohn on behalf of his client, director Paul Mazursky (Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice).
Mazursky had adapted the 1932 Jean Renoir satire Boudu Saved From Drowning — about a bourgeois Parisian who rescues a tramp who tries to drown himself in the River Seine — and reimagined the tale as unfolding in the country's swankiest ZIP code.
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