SCTV, though, has a higher batting average than most sketch comedies. The latest DVD set chronicles one of the series’ later years, but it’s still got plenty of laughs. There is the occasional skit (or episode) that completely falls dead, but most of these pack enough laughs still to merit your viewing.
In June 1973, the Nixon appointee-loaded Supreme Court reorganized the obscenity laws. Law enforcement began cracking down. At the same time, the Mafia, the film argues, got involved in adult film distribution. By the mid-1970’s, the feds decided to prosecute Harry Reems. The prosecutor? Larry Parrish, a former preacher. Parrish implemented, as Alan Dershowitz called it, “a very creative use” of the…
In the documentary interviews on this DVD, Gregory Peck reveals that his mannerism of clutching the pocketwatch is taken directly from observing the way Harper Lee’s father fiddled with his pocketwatch. During filming, Lee befriended Peck and believed…
The film opens on a dank streetside in Joliet, Illinois, at what appears to be the height of the Great Depression. A bookie, Granger (Ed Bakey) steps out of his office and witnesses a thief making off with an old man’s wallet. Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) stops the thief. The old man, Luther Coleman (Robertearl Jones), explains to them that he had to deliver that money to someone fast or face a…
The film works through its necessary conflicts, between Mel and Cher, between Cher and Tai Fraiser (Brittany Murphy, in one of her most underrated, clever performances), and so on… but intelligently, not malevolently. I credit this partly to Jane Austen, as the film is based loosely on Emma. I also credit this to Amy Heckerling, who demonstrates a keen understanding, much like Tina Fey (head writer of “Saturday Night Live” and screenwriter of “Mean Girls”), of…
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