1. October 29, 1977 – Charles Grodin / Paul Simon (S3 E4) - One SNL a Day
7 sep 2018 · — It tickles me that some SNL fans actually think the whole gimmick with Grodin being lost on how to do the show was REAL. — IIRC, the only ...
Sketches are rated on a scale of 1-5 stars COLD OPENING having missed dress rehearsal, host is surprised to find that SNL is live — Ah, yes, the famous premise of Charles Grodin missing the d…
2. Life got you down? Watch Midnight Run - CrimeReads
21 jan 2022 · Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) and his captured fugitive, an embezzler with a heart of gold named Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin) ...
There is a scene towards the beginning of Midnight Run in which the two main characters have their first in-depth conversation. Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) and his captured fugitive, …
3. Close to You: Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
10 jul 2019 · From the film's smarmy protagonist, Lenny (Charles Grodin), rehearsing his seductive “hello” in the mirror before putting it into practice on ...
4. The 'Louie' Scale: 'Life Is Short, for a Child Who Died' - The Atlantic
6 mei 2014 · And then there's this doozy from the doctor in Louie's building (played by Charles Grodin): "The back isn't done evolving yet. You see the ...
Louie can range from the happily hilarious to the utterly depressing. So for this fourth season, we're going to plot each episode on "The Louie Scale" to figure out just how comedic or dramatic it was. How did Monday night's season premiere episodes fare?
5. Love Screams: Valentine's Day Massacre at Anthology Film Archives
Based on a script by Neil Simon, The Heartbreak Kid stars Charles Grodin (played to cringeworthy perfection in his breakout role) as Lenny Cantrow, a ...
For those not in the mood for love this month, Manhattan’s Anthology Film Archives will be hosting their own twisted hearts celebration with their annual Valentine’s Day Massacre series—named after the notorious 1929 Chicago gangland murders (which Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond used three decades later as the catalyst for Some Like It Hot)—a program that elides the rosy-hued confections of the holiday for films that show the thorny side of love.
6. Louie Recap: Season 4, Episodes 1 & 2, “Back” & “Model” - Slant Magazine
6 mei 2014 · In Grodin, C.K. has a foil in overconfidence masking insecurity and incompetence, and C.K.'s Louie often taps into the same kind of toxically ...
The title of the season-four premiere is possibly a wry acknowledgment of Louie’s return after a year-and-a-half hiatus.
7. Hey! A Movie!: The Great Muppet Caper - Reactor
16 nov 2011 · When Charles Grodin shows up as Lady Holiday's worthless brother ... It still tickles me silly when Fozzie orders champagne, then ...
Let me tell you a little secret that you know already but just forgot: The Great Muppet Caper is the best Muppet movie. I could stop there and be happy that time and history will reveal this assertion as the ultimate truth—I mean, I’m not getting paid by the word count here—except that would rob […]
8. Charles Grodin - Lawyers, Guns & Money
18 mei 2021 · anything that irks Paul Simon tickles me just fine. sk7326 • 3 years ago. Grodin was one of the very best American character actors. His ...
Always a favorite of mine. R.I.P.: Charles Grodin, the versatile actor familiar from “Same Time, Next Year” on Broadway, popular movies like “The Heartbreak Kid,” “Midnight Run” and “Beethoven” and numerous television appearances, died on Tuesday at his home in Wilton, Conn. He was 86. His son, Nicholas, said the cause was bone marrow cancer. […]
9. Why Robert De Niro's performance in Midnight Run is totally underrated
1 jul 2020 · ... tickling talents of celebrated method heavyweight Robert De Niro. ... De ...
Why Robert De Niro's performance in Midnight Run is totally underrated and why the movie is tamer than anything in the contemporary Hollywood landscape
10. Elaine May: laughing matters | Sight and Sound - BFI
20 apr 2023 · Here was the comedy of discomfort, at once ticklish and anxious. ... This time, Charles Grodin stars as Lenny Cantrow, a callow newlywed ...
Elaine May’s extraordinary career over seven decades as director, screenwriter and stand-up comic remains criminally undervalued, a body of work in which she has taken great delight in skewering male vanity and puncturing the inflated egos of millionaires and politicians. From our October 2018 issue.
11. Reel Retrospective: Midnight Run (1988) - Robert De Niro's ... - D&CFilm
1 aug 2011 · ... Charles Grodin share crackling, timeless chemistry in the frustratingly overlooked Midnight Run ... tickling cross country chase as ...
Robert De Niro is always so much funnier when he's not self-consciously parodying his own image. That's why Midnight Run is the greatest comedy he's ever starred in - not only that, it's one of the most criminally overlooked films of all time. Sean Wilson reviews this underrated classic.
