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Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what I’ve seen over the past week either in film or television. On the film side, if I have written a full length review already, I will post a link to that review. Otherwise, I’ll give a brief snippet of my thoughts on the film with a full review to follow at some point later. For television shows, seasons and what not, I’ll post individual comments here about each of them as I see fit.

So, here is what I watched this past week:

My Favorite Year


It’s a wonderful treat to see Peter O’Toole doing comedy. His timing is absolutely perfect and were it not for some of the corny elements of the film, including that painfully-written narration, this would be a magnificent film. There are plenty of very humorous moments and when O’Toole’s on screen, the film sings even when trapped in scenes such as the dinner in Brooklyn with Benjy’s (Mark Linn-Baker) mother (Lainie Kazan). The idea of O’Toole as a matinee idol washed up after years of carousing and boozing is utterly brilliant and were it not for the prior year’s Arthur, this film might have been a bigger success.

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