MY FAVORITE YEAR & HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART I July 22, 2010

MY FAVORITE YEAR, 1982, Warner Bros., 92 min. Dir. Richard Benjamin. Mark Linn-Baker stars as Benjy Stone, junior writer on a 1950s TV comedy-variety series who is assigned to keep alcoholic matinee idol Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole) out of trouble during rehearsals and deliver him sober to the performance.
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HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART I, 1981, 20th Century Fox, 92 min. Mel Brooks is at his most inventive in this collection of sketches that provides a comedic survey of man's past, including the inquisition (which provides the basis for one of the funniest production numbers of the director's career) and the stone age. Orson Welles narrates this parody of sweeping Hollywood epics, and the cast is comprised of comedy legends: Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Sid Caesar, and Henny Youngman, among others. Discussion between films with Richard Benjamin.
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