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Former Writer for David Letterman, Robert Klein, Dick Van Dyke and The Disney Channel All New Mickey Mouse Club. Writer of film essays for The Criterion Collection
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Remembering Ruth Buzzi, a very funny woman. LAUGH-IN made her a star but I remember her before that when she played the silent unidentifiable “assistant “ to Dom DeLuise’s Magician bit.

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It’s Shirley MacLaine’s birthday and I’m posting this picture of Shirley vamping Jerry Lewis in ARTISTS AND MODELS because if I don’t, who will?

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The great Elaine May turns 93 today and we are lucky to share the planet with her.

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For Harold Lloyd’s birthday, here is the essay I wrote for Criterion on Harold’s greatest sound comedy MOVIE CRAZY www.criterion.com/current/post...

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For Harold Lloyd’s birthday, here is the essay I wrote for Criterion on Lloyd and thrill comedy www.criterion.com/current/post...

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For Harold Lloyd’s birthday, here is the essay I wrote for Criterion’s release of his classic THE FRESHMAN which turns 100 this year. www.criterion.com/current/post...

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For Superman Day, a reminder that Superman has been woke since the fifties.

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No school today, kids! It’s Hayley Mills’ birthday!

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One more for Henry Mancini’s birthday- the lovely theme for Stanley Donen’s classic TWO FOR THE ROAD. The titles were designed by Maurice Binder who is most famous for his James Bond title sequences. Note how Binder places Mancini’s credit at the exact moment the music swells. youtu.be/wMsZGgBV3x4

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Besides Chaplin, today is also the birthday of the great Henry Mancini. I might be one of five people in the world who likes DARLING LILI but even if you hate it, you have to love this gorgeous Mancini song that opens it. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer: youtu.be/0of8-MxqVRY

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For Charlie Chaplin’s birthday, another of three essays I wrote for the Criterion Collection www.criterion.com/current/post...

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For Charlie Chaplin’s birthday, another of three essays I wrote about him for the Criterion Collection www.criterion.com/current/post...

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For Charlie Chaplin’s birthday, one of three essays I wrote about him for the Criterion Collection: www.criterion.com/current/post...

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(For the Jack Benny fans) “Gee, Phil, two cars crashed on the way to see The Horn Blows at Midnight!” “They weren’t trying to get to it, Jackson, they were trying to get away!”

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Your movie choices in Times Square this day in 1950: Disney’s TREASURE ISLAND with Robert Newton as Long John Silver and Joseph H. Lewis’s classic GUN CRAZY at the Palace. But the Palace also has live vaudeville featuring “Siamese Twins” and what more could you want for your entertainment dollar?

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