A musical that charms even audiences that don’t like musicals, this adaptation of a big 1955 Broadway hit is noted for capturing much of the original’s power and brilliance — more legendary stage performances should be filmed like this, immortalizing theater history that otherwise disappears into the ether. Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown and star replacement Tab Hunter shine, yet ‘unknown’ Broadway talent Shannon Bolin and Robert Shafer earn just as much applause. The Verdon-Bob Fosse creative hookup is at its strongest here, complete with a show-stopper of a dance duo. Come to think of it, almost every song in this thing stops the show, like one of Joe Hardy’s home runs: Wow!
Damn Yankees
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1958 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 111 min. / Street Date March 16, 2021 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, James Komack, Rae Allen,...
Damn Yankees
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1958 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 111 min. / Street Date March 16, 2021 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, James Komack, Rae Allen,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
According to THR, Paramount is currently sitting on three separate Star Trek projects. These include a story created by Legion showrunner Noah Hawley, a prospective Kelvin timeline film and a pitch from The Revenant writer Mark L. Smith with Quentin Tarantino tied to (hopefully) direct the finished script.
For reasons that should be obvious to any film buff, Star Trek fans have gotten most excited about the last of these three projects. Although little is yet known about the script which Tarantino – in the best of all possible worlds – will go on to direct, the industry isn’t completely in the dark about its contents.
According to Deadline, for instance, the project is “based on an episode of the classic Star Trek series that takes place largely earthbound in a 30s gangster setting.” While Tarantino has set his films in any location from the Wild West to the pre-Civil War...
For reasons that should be obvious to any film buff, Star Trek fans have gotten most excited about the last of these three projects. Although little is yet known about the script which Tarantino – in the best of all possible worlds – will go on to direct, the industry isn’t completely in the dark about its contents.
According to Deadline, for instance, the project is “based on an episode of the classic Star Trek series that takes place largely earthbound in a 30s gangster setting.” While Tarantino has set his films in any location from the Wild West to the pre-Civil War...
- 8/8/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
I really like Better Things, FX's new comedy starring and produced by Pamela Adlon, who was Louis C.K.'s frequent on- and off-screen collaborator on Louie. (Here's my review from yesterday.) The show is deeply autobiographical, with Adlon playing a thinly-disguised version of herself: a single mom to three daughters, and a former child actress still plugging away in show business (finding more success in voiceover work than on camera) decades later. At press tour, I sat down with Adlon to talk about how (when she was still going by Pamela Segall) she got started in the business, her early '80s androgynous period — highlighted by Willy/Milly, where she played an adolescent girl who wished to be a boy, and woke up the next morning with a penis — the transition into voice work on shows like King of the Hill, the ways that her new art imitates her old...
- 9/8/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
In 1969, The Courtship of Eddie's Father debuted on ABC. Based on a 1963 movie starring Glenn Ford, Eddie revolves around a handsome magazine publisher named Tom Corbett (Bill Bixby). He's a widower and is raising his six-year-old son, Eddie (Brandon Cruz), who often attempts to find his father a new mate. Mrs. Livingston (Miyoshi Umeki), their Japanese housekeeper, helps to look after Eddie and tries to keep him out of trouble.
The show was created and executive produced by James Komack. He also co-starred on the show as Norman Tinker, Tom's best friend and a photographer at the magazine. Komack went on to create Chico and the Man and Welcome Back, Kotter and is credited with launching the careers of Freddie Prinze and John Travolta.
Prior to Eddie, Bixby was already a household name from starring in My Favorite Martian on CBS. He...
The show was created and executive produced by James Komack. He also co-starred on the show as Norman Tinker, Tom's best friend and a photographer at the magazine. Komack went on to create Chico and the Man and Welcome Back, Kotter and is credited with launching the careers of Freddie Prinze and John Travolta.
Prior to Eddie, Bixby was already a household name from starring in My Favorite Martian on CBS. He...
- 12/27/2011
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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