https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2DCtyYLWus&list=PL2MtElzTEi6kRm3MSxxmZ6FXMstYUQIKu Did you know that Albert Brooks made a comedy LP in 1975? This was in the heart of the Monty Python LP era (as a kid I was a voracious collector of comedy albums from the previous decade through the mid-70s) and I remember playing Brooks record many times
Here’s one of Albert Brooks’s best appearances on Johnny Carson. This is from 1983-ish (he apparently was about to shoot the thoroughly unnecessary remake of ‘Unfaithfully Yours’ with Dudley Moore which was released in 1984) and features one of his most Brooksian inventions–the ‘home impressions kit’. Carson laughs so much
‘Spook Louder’ (1943) is the 69th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Friday, July 17th through Tuesday, July 21, 1942 and was released on Friday, April 2nd, 1943 (the 92nd day on the Gregorian calendar). This oddball hodgepodge of a short is
‘Three Pests In A Mess’ (1945) is the 83rd short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Thursday, June 22nd through Monday, June 26th 1944 and released on Friday, January 19 1945 (the 19th day on the Gregorian calendar). This is a top notch
Tough guy actor George Raft began his career in the cabarets of Times Square in the 1920s as a ‘hoofer’, period slang for a male dancer who didn’t specialize in formal dance. Hoofers were a breed unto themselves, generally self-taught street-wise kids whose athleticism and panache could land them in
Apropos of the doc about the making of Billy Wilder and I.A.L Diamond’s ‘Fedora’ (1978) which I posted last Friday, here’s another doc about the making of Wilder’s much more robust and well-known film ‘Some Like It Hot’ (1959) titled “Nobody’s Perfect’. Scholars of Wilder and Marilyn Monroe will hear
‘Disorder In The Court’ (1936) was the 15th film made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Wednesday, April 1 through Monday, April 6, 1936 and released on Saturday, May 30th of that year (the 151st day in the Gregorian Calendar). Though the script is credited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS2XRiN9xbE ‘Fedora’ (1978), written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond and directed by Wilder, was the teams penultimate film and for all intents and purposes the more appropriate finish to their legendary partnership than their unfortunate final outing ‘Buddy Buddy’. I saw the film in its Los Angeles first (and
‘Listen, Judge’ (1952) is the 138th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Tuesday, November 6 through Thursday, November 8, 1951 and was released on Thursday, March 6th, 1952 (the 66th day in the Gregorian Calendar). The film is a mash-up of three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOCohXRrdkghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQKuNHhX8Js Apropos of yesterday’s post, I was going to post the highly controversial Vanessa Redgrave Oscar acceptance speech from 1978 in which she criticizes Israel in a virulent and stinging speech that provoked boos and a scolding from Paddy Chayefsky. But you know what? The hell with it. Let’s end