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Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#25re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 12:33pmMADE FOR EACH OTHER, with Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor. Circa 1970. Renee plays a character named Pandora, who has a terrible night club act and is in group therapy. Olympia Dukakis, looking nothing like the MOONSTRUCK or MAGNOLIA lady, plays Joe's Italiana Mama, who literally bristles that he brings home a Jewish woman for Christmas dinner. It's hysterical, and fresh, and I don't believe available on video or DVD. (Woody Allen has said it's one of his favorites, for what it's worth.) Anyone seen it?
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#26re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 12:44pmMIDNIGHT MADNESS is a favorite! I own the DVD!
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#27re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 12:48pmFATSO written by and starring Anne Bancroft.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 1:39pm
Yes I have Auggie! Olympia has dark hair in it, which is a little jarring to those of us who didn't know her pre-Moonstruck...
Eating Raoul is a cult favorite AND a musical...not sure how obscure that is, but it's a great movie!
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#29re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:54pm
Made For Each Other was great, but I haven't seen it since it came out. It just sort of disappeared into the void. I remember that Giggy was a Black Studies major, and that Pandora opened her nightclub act by saying "It's true, I'm not who I once was, nor am I yet what I will become. The question is, WHO AM I NOW?" She would then launch into a series of the worst impressions ever.
Three other hilarious, but overlooked, comedies from the same general time period: George Axelrod's Lord Love A Duck, Elaine May's A New Leaf, and Norman Lear's Cold Turkey.
#30re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 9:00pmanyone a fan of Bedtime Story?
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#31re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 10:26pm
HOT L Baltimore
When Things Were Rotton
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
UpStage
Understudy Joined: 10/13/05
#32re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 10:28pmWhere Poppa? Ruth Gordon is hysterical.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#33re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 10:46pm
I just bought the WHERE'S POPPA? dvd! Holds up, brilliantly. Whatever happened to Trish Van de Vere? (Mrs. George C. Scott, post Colleen).
And thank you for reminding us about COLD TURKEY. Really funny.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#34re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 11:35pm
Ruth Gordon was also hysterical in Lord Love A Duck.
"In our family, we don't divorce our men...we bury 'em!"
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#35re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 11:39pm
I love FATSO!!!
One of my favorites, that most people in my age group don't know, is a film called: IT'S A GIFT, starring W.C.Fields. Very funny.
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#36re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 11:41pmI've always said It's A Gift is the funniest movie ever made.
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#37re: Obscure Comedies That Only You Remember
Posted: 10/20/05 at 11:48pmWell, if it isn't the funniest, it certainly is one of them, along with PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES and THE PRODUCERS. I really like SUMMER RENTAL, as well. I don't find most comedies very funny, though.
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!
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