Posted on 08/17/2016 12:06:10 PM PDT by Borges
The project was initiated and produced by a former military man. And Omar Bradley was an advisor.
There was a great spoof of Love Story on the Carol Burnett Show called “Lovely Story”, with Carol and Harvey Korman as the leads.
“Also successful was his 1979 action-comedy “The In-Laws,” with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin”
One of the funniest comedies ever!
“Serpentine, Shel!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_w-QCWpS0
Your post is very sensible.
When the line “Love is never to have to say you’re sorry” in “Love Story” was spoken he had the girl slap the guy but it was edited out...... Well that is what I would have filmed.
So it was Hiller who gave us “SERPENTINE SERPENTINE”! My 6 yr old son and I run like mad and yell that every time we cross any traffic thoroughfare.
Nah, it's crap.
Had forgotten that or never realized it. So the original chicken s#!+ was the screenplay and not the book. I remember girls at my high school swooning over both and me just shaking my head in wonder. Then again, I was the only person in my high school theater field trip to NYC who thought that the Broadway production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” (except for a spectacular Ben Vereen as Judas Iscariot) was awful and “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds” was brilliant. I got used to being the minority opinion early on.
Even several years before that you had elephantine pre-Fab fodder like ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’ which, to be fair, prompted a great blurb review by Dave Kehr...
“The agony is Charlton Heston as Michelangelo trying to complete the Sistine Chapel before the pope’s money and the audience’s patience run out; the ecstatic element is somewhat slighted.”
We saw the stage play in a tiny off Broadway theater with a cast I later recognized whenever they showed up in films. Our group probably made up a quarter of the audience. It won the Tony for best play later that same year. How our advisors picked out that show I’ll never know.
would be nice if cable TV would show some of these movies that i have just read instead of endless repeats of Law and Order...
Lucky you! What a wonderful experience that must have been.
Nothing older than about twenty years gets shown on TV anymore unless you’re watching a specialty channel like TCM or Me-TV.
One of my favorite Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor movies.
Since it’s a train movie, It’s a surprise that Moonbeam isn’t a 1000% for a remake.
I can’t see anyone in the shoes of Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan or Jill Clayburgh (?) today.
Carol Burnett had some great stuff on her show.
I like my L&O binge-a-thons of the early years.
There are channels like El Rey, Antenna, and Comet.
I saw the sequel not too long ago. It was bad. An hour and a half of a suicidally depressed Oliver. What was the point ?
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