via sun-sentinel.com
A season that pops
By Ben Crandell
On Sept. 23, 1973, international ballet star Edward Villella appeared, playing himself, on the prime-time ABC sitcom "The Odd Couple," the neatnik-vs.-slob farce based on the Neil Simon play. The premise of the episode had Villella teaching the show's stars, played by stage and film veterans Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, how to dance to Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake." With a wink to a notorious X-rated movie of the era, the episode was titled "Last Tango in Newark."
Within that heap of middle-brow popular culture, two words stand out: Edward Villella?