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• Vintage Cable Box: “Romantic Comedy, 1983”

  “A few years ago, I owned a delicate china teapot.  One day, I dropped it and it split right down the middle.  Well, I glued it together, and it looked as if it had never been broken.  And several months later, for no apparent reason, it suddenly exploded into a thousand pieces.  I suppose what…

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  March 21, 2016

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  1983, Anthony Perkins, Arthur Hiller, Bernard Slade, comedy, Dudley Moore, Frances Sternhagen, Janet Eilber, Mary Steenburgen, Mia Farrow, New York City, Robyn Douglass, romantic comedy, Ron Leibman, writers, writing

• Vintage Cable Box: “Author! Author!, 1982”

  “Don’t you ever, ever, ever tell me I look good for my age again!” Author! Author!, 1982 (Al Pacino), 20th Century Fox Johnny Mandel’s appropriately cheesy music informs us we are about to spend an hour and forty minutes with a sensitive, high-strung, and passionate man. Ivan Travalian is your typical, over-educated New York lunatic,…

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  December 7, 2015

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  1982, Al Pacino, Alan King, Arthur Hiller, Author! Author!, Bob Elliott, Broadway, comedy, drama, Dyan Cannon, Israel Horovitz, playwright, romantic comedy, Scarface, Tuesday Weld, writers

• Vintage Cable Box: “Deathtrap, 1982”

  “I want a short-cut, Sidney. And I really don’t care whose yard I cut through, if you understand me.” Deathtrap, 1982 (Michael Caine), Warner Bros. Michael Caine’s Sidney Bruhl, a successful playwright who specializes in the macabre is livid over the terrible reviews for his latest play, Murder Most Fair. His somewhat dizzy, weak-hearted but…

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  December 2, 2015

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  1982, Christopher Reeve, Deathtrap, Dyan Cannon, Michael Caine, murder, mystery, playwright, plot twist, Sidney Lumet, stage play, suspense, thriller, writers