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Written by James M. Tate / 8/27/2026 / No comments / annette o'toole , harry anderson , horror , john ritter , jonathan brandis , laura harris , miniseries , olivia hussey , richard masur , richard thomas , seth green , stephen king , tim curry , tommy lee wallace

TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre to the glorious 1970's, when ROOTS and RICH MAN POOR MAN cast mostly actors and actresses from nearly every former famous television series that still haunted the syndicated airwaves...<br><br>It was usually the character-actors, while IT has the leading players as familiar faces: like a broodingly dramatic John Ritter, who was the hilariously clumsy Jack Tripper on THREE'S COMPANY... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

annette o'toole, harry anderson, horror, john ritter, jonathan brandis, laura harris, miniseries, olivia hussey, richard masur, richard thomas, seth green, stephen king, tim curry, tommy lee wallace

TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: **** The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre t...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

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billy dee williams, burt reynolds, cop, crime, gary busey, harrison ford, john ritter, mike henry, neo noir, norman fell, richard anderson, seventies, tv series

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on the series DAN AUGUST Years: 1970-1971 Rating: ***1/2 In two decades, Burt Reynolds went from being a TV actor to a movie ...

JUDGEMENT UPON THE BIBLICAL SATIRE OF 'WHOLLY MOSES!'

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He and Laraine Newman (the director's SNL alumni) discover a cave with a lost, unknown scroll, and Moore reads about an orphan who, floating downstream, is pushed aside by <i>the </i>legendary basket-floating infant (much like Graham Chapman's title character in this film's muse/inspiration, MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN, fatefully born in the manger next-door to Christ)... <br>
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dudley moore, eighties, james coco, john ritter, laraine newman, parody, paul sand, religion, richard pryor, road movie, satire

JUDGEMENT UPON THE BIBLICAL SATIRE OF 'WHOLLY MOSES!'

Title: WHOLLY MOSES! Year: 1980 AD Rating: *** Similar to the following years' Mel Brooks Old Testament spoof, HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Gar...

A BAGFUL OF PARANTHETICAL BLAKE EDWARDS ARCHIVE REVIEWS

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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>SUNSET:</u></span> James Garner is the real life Marshall 
Wyatt Earp and Bruce Willis is cowboy actor Tom Mix portraying 
Earp in a movie, and they team-up to solve a murder in old 
Hollywoodland...<br>
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Reminiscent of those episodes of "Rockford Files" with Garner and the classier, prettier and younger Tom 
Selleck, but since there's really no clashing between the REAL cowboy 
and the FAKE one there's not much chemistry either. It's like watching 
two friends agreeing upon everything — what's the fun in that? But there
 are some decent performances and you'll have light fun watching. Meanwhile, as usual, Bruce 
Willis is passable doing his ever-charming-reaction acting style and 
James Garner keeps the ball rolling at a comfortable pace. Although in 
the end you'll forgot you've seen anything: except maybe cult icon 
Malcolm McDowell's final moments as a bizarre, classy and then monstrous
 villain as the affable comedy morphs wickedly into a chilling/thrilling Hammer Film.  <br>

blake edwards, bruce willis, comedy, eighties, fifties, jack lemmon, james garner, john ritter, lee remick, malcolm mcdowell, romantic comedy, sixties, thriller, TV, william holden

A BAGFUL OF PARANTHETICAL BLAKE EDWARDS ARCHIVE REVIEWS

Bruce Willis and Malcolm McDowell YEAR: 1991 Score: **1/2 SUNSET: James Garner is the real life Marshall Wyatt Earp and Bruce Willis i...

CHARLES BRONSON 'THE STONE KILLER' PAUL KOSLO & JACK COLVIN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in Michael Winner's THE STONE KILLER Year: 1973</u></td></tr>
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Michael Winner's 1970's exploitation crime trilogy starring Charles Bronson made the tough guy actor as famous as Sergio Leone's Man With No Name trilogy put Clint Eastwood successfully on the map... And the Bronson flicks <i>are</i> modern asphalt Westerns about a hit man; a vigilante...<br>
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And between THE MECHANIC and DEATH WISH is his edgiest performance in the shoot-first cop flick the likes of... back to the Eastwood similarity... DIRTY HARRY: Only Bronson's Lou Torry is more realistic since THE STONE KILLER is a visually-stylistic nostalgic Neo Noir as our man dons a gumshoe trench coat; investigates a list of repeatedly-spoken culprit last names; and uses sparse dialogue with hardly any conversation lasting longer than it takes to move the story from one scene to the next, and there are plenty...<br>

action, charles bronson, cop, crime, exploitation, jack colvin, jazz-score, john ritter, kelley miles, michael winner, neo noir, norman fell, paul koslo, ralph waite, seventies, stuart margolin, thriller

CHARLES BRONSON 'THE STONE KILLER' PAUL KOSLO & JACK COLVIN

Charles Bronson in Michael Winner's THE STONE KILLER Year: 1973 Michael Winner's 1970's exploitation crime trilogy starring ...

JOHN RITTER IN HERO AT LARGE (W/ TAXI DRIVER CONNECTION)

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1980 cast: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convey, Harry Bellaver, Kevin Bacon rating: ***</td></tr>
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John Ritter plays a struggling yet optimistic actor living in New York City. Beginning at a crowded intersection, we slowly zoom in on Ritter’s Steve Nichols arguing with a lady we won't see again...<br />
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Oh well, Anne Archer’s a whole lot cuter. How ironic she was up for Lois Lane in SUPERMAN… Now she’s the Girl Friday of another superhero… but not really...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harry Bellaver watched John Ritter standing up to a non-famous Kevin Bacon (with other kid Neill Barry)</td></tr>
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He's only an actor having to dress up like one, standing outside a theater to promote a film called CAPTAIN AVENGER, a low-paying gig he really likes since, after all, pleasing crowds is Steve’s business…<br />
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The plot begins when Steve, stopping at a liquor store, thwarts a robbery – still wearing the superhero costume. This ignites the rabid media, having no clue of the masked man's identity…<br />
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Much of the film has Steve flirting with, and eventually romancing, his gorgeous neighbor, Archer’s J. Marsh, while ignoring media hype spouting from television – the news, and the incumbent mayor’s determined assistant, wants the hero revealed...<br />
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By the time Steve dons the garb and ventures downtown, the ride's almost over… It might have been interesting seeing a completely inept guy fighting crime – instead there’s a ton of whining and so much reluctance to take action, perhaps the AT LARGE should have been AT HOME…<br />
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Ritter makes for a likable romantic lead while Archer’s great to look at, as usual, but the idealistic conclusion is preachy and bulwarks the fun that should have been had along the way. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first homage to TAXI DRIVER... alright, maybe this wasn't intentional...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But the casting of Leonard Harris doing the same gesture is an obvious TAXI DRIVER nod... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You decide... Here's Leonard Harris reaching out as Senator Palantine in TAXI DRIVER</td></tr>
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anne archer, eighties, harry bellaver, john ritter, kevin bacon, kevin mccarthy, romantic comedy