Eddie Albert spent six seasons appealing to the whacked out citizens of Hooterville to behave in a rational and orderly manner. Naturally, he got just what he deserved–the gradual erosion of his own mental stability. Aficionados of this show like to call it surreal. All one can add to that, to paraphrase the classic title […]
Million Dollar Baby
Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), a waitress from a small Missouri town in the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), a boxing trainer. Maggie asks Dunn to train her, but he retorts that he doesn’t train girls. Maggie attempts to persuade Frankie by […]
The Larry Sanders Show: The Series
The Larry Sanders Show is perhaps the most realistic and funniest television series ever written about show business. In this case, the “business” is producing a late night talk show hosted by the amiable, humorous Larry Sanders, a Johnny Carson-like character deftly portrayed by Garry Shandling. Shandling is also the creator and frequent writer of […]
Mr. And Mrs. Smith
The film opens with John (Brad Pitt) and Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple has been married for “five or six” years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, […]