‘My favorite Year,’ comic salute to Tv’s golden ages, hits forty
Peter O’Toole was famous to have their dominating, Oscar-nominated transforms. Mark Linn-Baker was an excellent fledgling phase star. Richard Benjamin, who’d made a number one-kid splash during the “Portnoy’s Criticism” and you may “Westworld,” got a number of Tv pointing credits.
The sum such unlikely bits are the newest zesty 1982 motion picture comedy “The best Season,” starring O’Toole and you may Linn-Baker, directed by the Benjamin and you will developed by Mel Brooks. It repaid loving tribute to your completely new golden chronilogical age of Tv about middle-twentieth millennium and also the assortment means that was the new “Saturday-night Live” strikes of their day.
When Benjamin take a look at program by the Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo, he quickly looked to their spouse, actor Paula Prentiss.
The movie, establishing its 40th wedding, is determined in 1954 and you will topped of the O’Toole given that faded however, still-glam movie idol Alan Swann, who’s looking towards the “Comedy Cavalcade” just to repay his Irs obligations. (more…)