Anybody who’s too young to remember The Goodbye Girl may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss’s performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the “chosen”) is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil’s […]
Archives for September 2020
Elf
Buddy (Will Ferrell) was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa’s sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa (Ed Asner) allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan). Hobbs, […]
The Patty Duke Show: The Series
As The Patty Duke Show demonstrates, from its very first episode in 1963, there’s no teenager, then or now, who more personified early-’60s American Teen than Patty Duke. And the hit sitcom is still as funny and endearing as ever–and lots of fun to watch as a whole season. Plus there’s something else that can […]