Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Diamond Arm (1968)



After a hundred viewings, do predictable gags in Revenge of Return of Pink Panther Strikes Again become endearing?

When they are done in Russian do they become great art?

Is a Steve Martin remake really necessary?

Was Steve Martin ever funny?

Was Robin Williams ever funny?

Is Good Morning Vietnam any better than Patch Adams or are they the same film?

Isn't surrealist comedy at its best on television?

Watching Brady Bunch reruns on a black and white box in the late 80s before it was a joke?

A Saturday evening PBS rebroadcast of Lawrence Welk on every screen of a Lakeland, Florida nursing home hosted by the accordionist maestro himself from a golf cart at his Escondido resort?

Green Acres: truly an absurdist cry from the peak of 1960s carnage to our moment in the voice of Reverend Lowery: "When tanks will be beaten into tractors?"

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