DOLLY PARTON, JANE FONDA AND LILY TOMLIN WORKING '9 TO 5'

<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/AVvXsEhrC4PC0Tw3o56IRa-31BqYHd-1pAlHcK6pMbgLIDTQQJioF3yluG3PQvgPi2LpZUCYOBGhjkbqnUiaYww1rEeiig8ONiF1owZ1WHPNj5VjLI3dB9VpZL6QfWxHg8ttm1z6-UNWQwPSekSS-k9VAgbIQt0nygJqwWH6dsSocK8NZL7Bl5fD_8fp_YSGIVhT/s1400/image1787817043.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC4PC0Tw3o56IRa-31BqYHd-1pAlHcK6pMbgLIDTQQJioF3yluG3PQvgPi2LpZUCYOBGhjkbqnUiaYww1rEeiig8ONiF1owZ1WHPNj5VjLI3dB9VpZL6QfWxHg8ttm1z6-UNWQwPSekSS-k9VAgbIQt0nygJqwWH6dsSocK8NZL7Bl5fD_8fp_YSGIVhT/s1600/image1787817043.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 9 TO 5 Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Even though country crooning queen Dolly Parton sang the incredibly popular title song 9 TO 5 (a working girl's take on Paul McCartney's alarm-clock section of John Lennon's Beatles opus <i>A Day In The Life</i>), it could have easily seemed like novelty casting, having the blonde bombshell — equally known for her large bosom as her music — in the role as the sexy personal secretary of the most evil of evil movie bosses...<br><br>But she's an absolute natural/scene-stealer alongside professionally-trained actresses Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin... and the literally hands-on employer Dabney Coleman, who for decades, without that sinister mustache, blended into the background of episodic television and b-movies... <br></p><span></span>

dabney coleman, dolly parton, eighties, henry jones, jane fonda, lawrence pressman, lily tomlin, renn woods, roxanna bonilla-giannini, sterling hayden

DOLLY PARTON, JANE FONDA AND LILY TOMLIN WORKING '9 TO 5'

Title: 9 TO 5 Year: 1980 Rating: *** Even though country crooning queen Dolly Parton sang the incredibly popular title song 9 TO 5 (a workin...

PAUL LE MAT DRIVES JONATHAN DEMME'S 'MELVIN AND HOWARD'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjNzKOS1bZez1zDzDjeJH4ECCt9A7QN148l1rSOU0whkZKlGUONEDQyRy4E_I-HuvF1UczlhO6wk4ovwcwJD1MyFhuJYjfBd5_SYH8v4fdXB0cWz1KdF2tazK5sbs1M2HQnr0qh_lJNItWIj1M6IXJ-02YRz1JqGetACE7F6CX21LbsfK0fhJGzLQM0NC37/s1192/363351384_1775756192853549_8465661431329407813_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="1192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNzKOS1bZez1zDzDjeJH4ECCt9A7QN148l1rSOU0whkZKlGUONEDQyRy4E_I-HuvF1UczlhO6wk4ovwcwJD1MyFhuJYjfBd5_SYH8v4fdXB0cWz1KdF2tazK5sbs1M2HQnr0qh_lJNItWIj1M6IXJ-02YRz1JqGetACE7F6CX21LbsfK0fhJGzLQM0NC37/s16000/363351384_1775756192853549_8465661431329407813_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michal Hendrych's artwork for MELVIN AND HOWARD Year: 1980 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Quirky biopic based on the truth as told by a liar, in this case Melvin Dummar played by AMERICAN GRAFFITI hot-rod hotshot Paul Le Mat, again behind the wheel in the important first act consisting of twenty-minutes with Jason Robards portraying the Howard of MELVIN AND HOWARD — as in the infamously reclusive billionaire Hughes, who Dummar claimed left $150M in his will... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As the then low-budget director Jonathan Demme tells the dodgy tale as if it were entirely legitimate, after Hughes crashes a motorcycle and, partially injured with the ragged, zombie-pale hangdog  countenance, is picked up and taken by overnight driver Dummar to "his hotel" in Las Vegas — both eventually (and in Hughes' case reluctantly) sharing favorite songs as Robards makes terrific use of the short yet important screen-time... </p><p><span></span></p>

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PAUL LE MAT DRIVES JONATHAN DEMME'S 'MELVIN AND HOWARD'

Michal Hendrych's artwork for MELVIN AND HOWARD Year: 1980 Rating: **** Quirky biopic based on the truth as told by a liar, in this case...

CHEVY CHASE PHYSICALLY SUFFERING THROUGH 'MODERN PROBLEMS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEiGfftIUNH1maJXY0SiM92S5XtQjuqc8AtthCQarIwUvklCSQXOC5_4p5gR9rPQPrAyafvP_xNToAPQGLx_MphWhvLfSA0zX0SgxPL667Ng0i1RlHDJLz_qEsh45fjXEWE7gCRbq64rxMyYbuxErOjAEQkppZKzy38bE4FIULN_C5VjzNEIbtCwtnaqJg/s1378/3%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGfftIUNH1maJXY0SiM92S5XtQjuqc8AtthCQarIwUvklCSQXOC5_4p5gR9rPQPrAyafvP_xNToAPQGLx_MphWhvLfSA0zX0SgxPL667Ng0i1RlHDJLz_qEsh45fjXEWE7gCRbq64rxMyYbuxErOjAEQkppZKzy38bE4FIULN_C5VjzNEIbtCwtnaqJg/s16000/3%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1981 cast: Chevy Chase, Patty D'Arbinville, Dabney Coleman Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Based on the Front Page News of a then-newly-elected President Ronald Regan-era strike, Chevy Chase is a not very contented Air Traffic Controller<i>, </i>and he's having serious troubles and/or, um... well... MODERN PROBLEMS... <br> <br> His convertible's been keyed... nothing compared to the nuclear waste spilled from a truck, eventually allowing him to move things at will derived from the frustration of his girlfriend leaving: Herein the orchestrated physical gags are balanced along with Chase's deadpan humor, only more-so than usual: the poor guy's downright depressed...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

brian doyle murray, chevy chase, comedy, dabney coleman, eighties, fantasy, mary kay place, nell carter, patti d'arbanville, quirky, science-fiction, supernatural

CHEVY CHASE PHYSICALLY SUFFERING THROUGH 'MODERN PROBLEMS'

year: 1981 cast: Chevy Chase, Patty D'Arbinville, Dabney Coleman Rates: ***1/2 Based on the Front Page News of a then-newly-elected Pre...

ROBERT REDFORD DELIBERATELY CHILLY FOR 'DOWNHILL RACER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEiKGl3Bvk5b16pCDc2XfVHgj6V1n4bLKLrTdtd_j9KkwSv_PEmcJd9bHqrhv5feJgVjOfe7upsR7eFFstLm0ntnUlIlPbG_lLXqHT7yiwmum8qyP-cFan83N_zQBTMWiiARblghC1XFUS52A6h-0CUYLYdHAc-FfXAohWgRkEJGhi3L9ukXJ1kFEJq5Jbo0/s2048/396535265_1828502070912294_4946696812217336166_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGl3Bvk5b16pCDc2XfVHgj6V1n4bLKLrTdtd_j9KkwSv_PEmcJd9bHqrhv5feJgVjOfe7upsR7eFFstLm0ntnUlIlPbG_lLXqHT7yiwmum8qyP-cFan83N_zQBTMWiiARblghC1XFUS52A6h-0CUYLYdHAc-FfXAohWgRkEJGhi3L9ukXJ1kFEJq5Jbo0/s16000/396535265_1828502070912294_4946696812217336166_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Redford in DOWNHILL RACER Year: 1969 Rates: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A movie has to be about <i>something</i> or <i>someone</i>, and reading any synopsis for DOWNHILL RACER, you'd think the main character, played by Robert Redford, was the biggest jerk on the planet...<br> <br> And while he<i> is</i> difficult and stubborn, childish and bitter, selfish, aloof and argumentative, aren't all great athletes? At least the ones who have <i>only winning</i> on the brain...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

camilla sparv, carole carle, dabney coleman, drama, gene hackman, jim mcmullan, kathleen crowley, michael ritchie, robert redford, sixties, sport

ROBERT REDFORD DELIBERATELY CHILLY FOR 'DOWNHILL RACER'

Robert Redford in DOWNHILL RACER Year: 1969 Rates: ****1/2 A movie has to be about something or someone , and reading any synopsis for DOW...

REVIEW OF TOOTSIE STARRING DUSTIN HOFFMAN TWICE

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1QDWGRhBXUoZN6uW9eCXP2r2TjruAmnQREtGmIftgJ_ulhO73HJKns_7kEFG8QjM71lXl5OtHeah9mFrgHGF5z-jTzGjq5_nFuC2ssJjT-NnAHYPkRPQVJQogmyqqaYJ19y8gVP18Sx4/s1600/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1QDWGRhBXUoZN6uW9eCXP2r2TjruAmnQREtGmIftgJ_ulhO73HJKns_7kEFG8QjM71lXl5OtHeah9mFrgHGF5z-jTzGjq5_nFuC2ssJjT-NnAHYPkRPQVJQogmyqqaYJ19y8gVP18Sx4/s320/1.png" width="231" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1982 Grade: A+</td></tr> </tbody></table> Perhaps the only reason Dustin Hoffman didn’t win the Best Actor Oscar for TOOTSIE is... his best moments occur as an actress, literally. His character Michael Dorsey, according to rumor, had the kind of difficult personality that Hoffman waged on Hollywood during his prime in the 1970’s. In other words, he could have been Dorsey without THE GRADUATE catapult, which makes the moments between Michael and his agent perhaps the funniest in the entire film…<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8JKnHbGRHgljMH77mkugmxuWV59MbuhIV_qe4vDTdLQDYcQQbcY4yC0AH2pNwf3E7N4UVpdFZHnkiq5tiy3qnpSNq-lcxhkrb8NSrnVhQReJs_I1v83HkMU1Ld2p8NDV1rinUdBGC-c4/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8JKnHbGRHgljMH77mkugmxuWV59MbuhIV_qe4vDTdLQDYcQQbcY4yC0AH2pNwf3E7N4UVpdFZHnkiq5tiy3qnpSNq-lcxhkrb8NSrnVhQReJs_I1v83HkMU1Ld2p8NDV1rinUdBGC-c4/s320/2.jpg" width="132" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jessica Lange</td></tr> </tbody></table> Behind the scenes, director Sydney Pollack (originally an actor) and Hoffman were constantly at odds, so this edgy energy transitioned perfectly on screen. It’s Pollock’s bigwig George Fields who tells his frantic client he will never be hired in New York, or anywhere. That’s when the movie truly begins…<br /> <br /> TOOTSIE is one of the greatest comedies of all time, taking the Billy Wilder canvas into the “modern era” and one of the first motion pictures to begin defining a brand new shiny decade, the 1980’s. And what keeps it from cult status is the mainstream popularity upon release, and the glossy, feel-good, painfully catchy Stephen Bishop tracks and also the title; the latter an intentionally ironic take on the dying art of male chauvinism narrowed into Dabney Coleman’s soap director, Ron. The 9 TO 5 villain plays a surprisingly vulnerable sexist boyfriend of our ingenue love interest, and the only Oscar winner, Jessica Lange, whose beautiful actress Julie is the apple of our androgynous hero's eyes. Her performance is also the most subtle; a gentle turn relying on bouts of pallid reverie – the single mother struggling for true love in a era, and industry, merely masquerading progression for the still maligned "second sex.”  <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidhFsKb7E6khR28uVdk-VwoCq7QjxUYDT2WeowiET4bqUxgsryjCQQCbwjcGCzxgr6OK60n5PtQLCc_xwdN9K2cmnVIWNlfvS3oYKGfrs6Cj16KnIel1R4y-svg7rdHwVuxonD9I33wvA/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidhFsKb7E6khR28uVdk-VwoCq7QjxUYDT2WeowiET4bqUxgsryjCQQCbwjcGCzxgr6OK60n5PtQLCc_xwdN9K2cmnVIWNlfvS3oYKGfrs6Cj16KnIel1R4y-svg7rdHwVuxonD9I33wvA/s320/3.jpg" width="242" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bill Murray & Dustin Hoffman</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Dorsey, who alters his name to Dorothy Michaels and becomes a strong female character on the soap, has a few suitors including Charles Durning as Julie’s friendly father and scene-stealer George Gaynes as the soap's stock veteran bad actor, eventually serenading Dorothy in a scene that ends with one of the funniest lines ever: no surprise (yet in a surprising non-credited role) it comes from Bill Murray, providing one of his wittiest roles as Michael’s oddball writer roommate. Also, Murray smoothly bridges the two main templates: Michael at home preparing for his job on the set, a sublime balance of personal life and show business.  <br /> <br /> In the Thankless Supporting department is a wildly emotional Teri Garr as a struggling actress whose initial failure for the soap leads to the open door wherein Michael's desperate changeling occurs. Giving Hoffman one of his greatest performances and is, with the exception of a sympathetic yet one-dimensional Oscar winning RAIN MAN four years later, the epitome of his genius as a shape-shifter who could vanish into any eclectic role: Centering not on the overall humor of Dorsey’s ruse, it’s the subtle observations… like how cutthroat shopping women can be, to the look in a man's eyes full of lust… that brings to life a modern woman who is still wholesome, old fashion, and not even female. Thus, tapping into his feminine side, Dorsey, and the script by Larry Gelbart, never gets too obvious or sentimental.

dabney coleman, dustin hoffman, eighties, jessica lange, teri garr

REVIEW OF TOOTSIE STARRING DUSTIN HOFFMAN TWICE

Year: 1982 Grade: A+ Perhaps the only reason Dustin Hoffman didn’t win the Best Actor Oscar for TOOTSIE is... his best moments occur as ...

YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE

<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggsFJryyA529b5EhOzEH4r5oLl9CYOHFHTLbXqeyP_3idNskuTFTqn01XYI4iO-KixTJkJdxpY3hZGQ6EFao5OVtnSotUmlZg3rCnSbmgBu8wd53Bbz2oQayT2MQlYUSccNJsVRofIaAc/s1600/YOUNGDOCTORS.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604790329176020034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggsFJryyA529b5EhOzEH4r5oLl9CYOHFHTLbXqeyP_3idNskuTFTqn01XYI4iO-KixTJkJdxpY3hZGQ6EFao5OVtnSotUmlZg3rCnSbmgBu8wd53Bbz2oQayT2MQlYUSccNJsVRofIaAc/s200/YOUNGDOCTORS.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 178px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><strong>title:</strong> YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE<strong><br />year:</strong> 1982<br /><div><strong>cast:</strong> Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton<br /><strong>rating:</strong> ***<br /><br />Garry Marshall's hospital comedy, where an ensemble of interns strive for love and advancement, works and it doesn't. As a joke-after-joke "Airplane!" clone it isn't funny enough, but the characters are involving: like Michael McKean is an uptight intern with a troubled past who falls for gorgeous Sean Young, and vice versa. Other stories include Dabney Coleman, as the jerky chief of staff, going broke or a mob boss stalked by a zany hitman (Michael Richards), while the mobster's son (Hector Elizondo), in drag, is hit on by a love-lorn intern. Many other stories occur while Sean Young's dying of a rare disease - and only McKean, with a phobia to operate, can save her. Since you'll care about these people, the many missed jokes won't matter. </div></div>

comedy, dabney coleman, eighties, garry marshall, harry dean stanton, larry flash jenkins, michael mckean, michael richards, sean young

YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE

title: YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE year: 1982 cast: Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton rating: *** Garry Marshall's hospital c...