“Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. It’s about five o’clock in the morning. That’s the Homicide Squad, complete with detectives and newspapermen. A murder has been reported from one of those great big houses in the ten-thousand block. You’ll read about it in the late editions, I’m sure. You’ll get it over your…
C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) works on the lower rungs of an insurance company in New York City. He’s ambitious, but miserable–miserable because he has agreed to loan his apartment to various executives in the company to conduct extramarital affairs, forcing him to spend his nights waiting for the temporary “tenants” to vacate his premises. One…
Brandie’s choice: The Fortune Cookie (1966) Airing at 3:45PM EST Have I told you lately how much I adore Billy Wilder? Who else could have given the world the oh-so-perfect comedic pairing of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau? Wilder, Lemmon, and Matthau formed an unbeatable team in The Fortune Cookie, the first of ten movies…
The incomparable Barbara Stanwyck meets her match in a group of nerdy professors in 1941’s hysterical Ball of Fire, a film generally recognized as one of the last screwball comedies to come out of the so-called “Golden Age” of the genre. A burlesque performer with the … unique name of Sugarpuss O’Shea (Stanwyck) is approached…
Tonight, TCM will air one of my favorite comedies of all time, 1942’s wonderful, underrated The Major and the Minor, starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. The film is a must-see, if only for the slightly disturbing sexual undertones that inevitably make the uninitiated viewer squirm the slightest bit. Setting pedophilic nuances aside, however, this…
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