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Martin Short played Jackie Rogers Jr and Ed Grimley Eugene Levy was Bobby Bittman John Candy was Johhny LaRue Count Floyd was Joe Flaherty Martin Short was my favorite - - I'm trying to remember this because this is around 30 years ago. The only other thing I can remember are the Schmonsky Bros-- they were John Candy and Eugene Levy. I liked this show better than Saturday Night Live- - I must say!

Star-- can you give us a hint?

DJ-- you got another one here--

Al Molinaro next: a housekeeper who was always inebriated

13 Rue Madeleine

Hint#2-- This actress is a Golden Globe winner.

Lav, you're still up - -

8) When the alcoholic Ray Milland desperately tries to get to a liquor store to buy whiskey, he discovers that it's closed because of a Yom Kippur.

Hint-- the leading lady and the leading man became somewhat of a movie starring team.

Hint-- this artist was in the second wave of the British Invasion.

DJ-- can you give us a hint?

Ustinov, Peter

1946

Desperate Hours

The Bride Wore Black

Tulsa

I Confess

The 39 Steps

New Moon

Pat O'Brien loved Jane Wyatt in Criminal Lawyer.

The Kinda Starring Marni Nixon Collection-- Hear this great singer pretend to sing like Deborah Kerr, if Deborah Kerr could sing, in The King and I Hear this great singer pretend to sing like Natalie Wood, if Natalie Wood Could Sing, in West Side Story Hear this great singer pretend to sing like Audrey Hepburn, if Audrey Hepburn could sing, in My Fair Lady These movie adaptations of Broadway hits are not to be missed-- Extra added feature - - Yul Brynner in The King and I and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady don't sing either but since they talk over their songs, they didn't need Miss Nixon to dub for them. SO you actually get to hear their voice talking through their numbers, just as they performed them on Broadway-- a real treat and a real Broadway experience!

Bogie-- I really appreciate your comments on John Cusack in relationship to him playing Brian Wilson. I must be one of Brian Wilson's biggest fans and I loved the movie. However,I would be on an all-time high with Paul Dano's scenes, then when they would switch to Cusack, I found myself getting angry, confused and guilty about not liking him. I knew something was not right, but I didn't know what it was. I'm not familiar with him as an actor , but it makes me feel better to hear other people say that they thought he loused it up too. I thought both Paul Dano and Paul Giamatti deserved Oscar nominations for those roles. Giamatti played Brian Wilson's evil, mind-controlling psychologist Dr. Landy. Brian said Giamatti's portrayal of Dr. Landy was so authentic that it frightened him in the movie theater. All I can say about the whole thing is that Paul Dano did a wonderful job with his part of portraying Brian's life and that he has a very brilliant future ahead of him.

LP-- Your assumption is correct. But I've got to say that unlike Miss Bennett, Miss Russell was really a good sport and a great gal!

When I started watching classic films with Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers these movies were 20 or 25 years old. Unless they had been killed in the war or some unfortunate incident or accident, all these movie stars were very much alive and appearing either in movies or on television and certainly on TV talk shows. Part of what makes a film a Classic Hollywood film is the existence of the studio system and what we still call the Golden Age of Hollywood. Films that I watched while in college still had remnants of that studio system. People watched the late show all throughout the 1950s into the early sixties in the United States. But it wasn't until the mid-sixties that classic film started to get respect in terms of being art. It seems like the whole Revival system started with Humphrey Bogart movies, I think in New York City. My Generation's group of movie stars are just about ready to be classified as classic because that's simply the age they're at. So if we go back to the best performances of Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, ect. I think we'd be getting into something that we could call a classic film. We might be looking at dates from 1968 to 1980. I would definitely vote for Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Godfather, Godfather II, Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again Sam, Bonnie and Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon , Funny Girl, Funny Lady, The Way We Were The Great Gatsby etcetera. When I first saw Meet Me in St Louis in the early sixties, it certainly was not even 20 years old as a film. But there it was on The Late Show and there it was a classic. That was the case in part because so much of the studio system and old Hollywood had already been dismantled because of television and changes in taste. As for calling every Tom Dick and Harry movie made in the 1930's or 40s a classic - - well of course, there were a lot of ordinary and mediocre movies made. But it is a certain style and a certain look to these films that connoisseurs like myself really do enjoy. I can honestly say I prefer a mediocre movie made in 1936 to a good movie made in 2016. It's a matter of taste.