Category Archives: Theater Harpo
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Famously, Stanley Kubrick purchased the rights to the straight-faced Cold War thriller Red Alert by Peter George, but decided the material was too dark to be treated seriously, and rapidly began to transform it into a satire with George assisting with … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Comedy, Doomsday, George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens, Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Terry Southern, The Bomb, The President
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Real Life (1979)
Albert Brooks’ Real Life (1979) wastes no time in admitting its inspiration; it’s right there in the opening scrawl. The landmark 1973 TV series An American Family, credited as being the first example of reality TV, was the product of a film crew documenting the … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin, Comedy, Harry Shearer, Reality TV
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And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
The first (and sometimes forgotten) Monty Python film was a bit like the albums and books they were putting out concurrent with the TV series Monty Python’s Flying Circus: old material presented in a different format. It’s a marketing job … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Carol Cleveland, Comedy, Connie Booth, Eric Idle, fairy godmother, God, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Killer Cat, Michael Palin, Monty Python, slapstick, Surreal, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
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