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The Better to Mirror Life

Posted on February 19, 2013 by admin

By Rom Watson c. The late 1980’s I’ve seen many movies over the course of my life, and below is a list of my favorite comic film performances. Many of the films listed may seem at first glance to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Rom's Blog | Tagged Amy Adams in Enchanted, Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo, Barbara Harris in Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me?, Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, Buster Keaton in The General, Carroll Baker in Bad, Charles Chaplin in City Lights and The Circus, comic film performances, Diane Keaton in Baby Boom, Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give, Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway, Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, Enrico Colantoni in Galaxy Quest, Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest, Gene Wilder in The Producers, Giulietta Masina in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, Harold Lloyd in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick, Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier, Jean Hagen in Singin’ in the Rain, Joan Allen in The Upside of Anger, Joel Grey in Remo Williams, John Gielgud in Arthur, Judy Holliday in It Should Happen to You, Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby, Kevin Kline in a Fish Called Wanda, Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance, Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou, Lena Olin in Casanova, Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld, Madeline Kahn in Paper Moon, Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and California Suite, Margaret Rutherford in The V.I.P.s, Marlon Brando in A Dry White Season, movies, Octavia Spencer in Dinner for Schmucks, Oliver Platt in Casanova, Paul Giamatti in Sideways, Peter O’Toole in Creator and My Favorite Year, Robert DeNiro in Bang the Drum Slowly, Robert Donat in Goodbye Mr. Chips, Steve Martin in All of Me, Susan Tyrrell in Fat City, Thelma Ritter in Pickup on South Street, Tom Hanks in Big, Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost | 1 Comment