Preston Sturges S/D

"I feel like Charlie Sheen is acting like a character in a Preston Sturges movie who HAS to convince the public he's crazy so he can get out of his hit show and marry his beautiful gal or something." -- a friend of mine gives a worthy observation about the Sheen mess.

I think Demarest's Muggsy in The Lady Eve is his second-greatest character. "I knew a fella who married the same dame 3 times, then turned around and married her aunt!"

Second? Which one is better?

Mr. Kockenlocker? It's a tough call.

I learned (or relearned) from the NYT obit of Norman Gimbel (songwriter of "Killing Me Softly" and TV themes) that he wrote lyrics for a Broadway musical version of Hail the Conquering Hero, starring Tom Poston in the Bracken role. Closed after 8 perfs in 1961. Book by Larry Gelbart!

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-conquering-hero-2286

(Lionel Stander for Demarest)

Still waiting for answer from five years ago

of course Officer K

Ya get me?

saw Palm Beach Story the same day as In Which We Serve (the Noel Coward Coward/David Lean film). both were 1942, and as American and British films from that year they couldn't have been more different

Wonder if Preston and his mom knew Noel Coward socially.

Sturges-scripted The Good Fairy new on Blu

https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review-william-wyler-the-good-fairy-on-kino-lorber-blu-ray/

I like peace but I ain't morbid about it.

The building superintendent looks like Demarest. I always want to say to him, "Lemme ask ya a hypothermical question..."