Matthau trying to dress a comotose hooker in California Suite is one of the funniest scenes in anything ever.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
nifty parody of late '70s Simon here: "Nutcracker Suite." Alfred will love Rick Moranis as Dreyfuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBRCbRtNuNU
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 03:40 (five years ago) link
It starts at 24:00
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
Biloxi Blues was good
― . (Michael B), Monday, 27 August 2018 07:33 (five years ago) link
obit roundup
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5884-neil-simon-gone-at-ninety-one
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
Not enough love for The Out Towners, a great New York movie and quite savage in the torment it inflicts on Lemmon and Dennis.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 27 August 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
i would love to have seen Carney and Matthau in the original Odd Couple production.
Back in the '70s, my parents saw Randall & Klugman in a touring production. Apparently they would go on the road w/it during breaks in the production of the TV show.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 August 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
oooh, I haaated The Out Towners the one time I saw it on TV. One joke over and over, and Sandy Dennis at her most numbing. (v much invoked at the start of that SCTV skit above)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
*Out of Towners
very tough but fair 2009 dissection by David Edelstein
Recent star-laden Broadway revivals of Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple have been embarrassments, prompting the Times’s Ben Brantley to write that “early Neil Simon retains its original freshness about as well as sushi”—a bit of bitchery made more devastating because you can imagine it popping up in a Simon play. (Something like: “Has it held up?” “Like 50-year-old sushi.” “They didn’t have sushi 50 years ago. You ate undercooked fish, you got tapeworm.”)
http://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/60154/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
Rewatched The Odd Couple for the first time in ~25 years. Matthau's performance is really a joy for the ages. Lemmon is better than his mid-career usual, and everyone carried over from Broadway (the Pigeon sisters and the poker buddies) is perfect.
Also I forgot who Felix moves in with at the end.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 October 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
eagerly awaiting your thoughts on Sweet Charity morbius, whenever you get around to it
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 October 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
otm on all counts morbs
but, verdict?
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 October 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
"now it's gah-bage"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 October 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
btw I erred -- the only one of the movie's poker buddies who'd been in the Broadway cast was John Fiedler, the mousy guy you may know from the first Newhart sitcom.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 October 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
As well as Star Trek:TOS and Winnie the Pooh cartoons
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 October 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Sunshine Boys is still the laugh machine Eric H secretly knows it is
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 November 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link