Word: gildas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What do you get when you team up Gene Wilder, 43, (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy) with Gilda Radner, 35, (Saturday Night Live) in a murder-mystery romance? Hanky Panky, that's what. In the film, due out next summer, Wilder witnesses a murder. He and Radner then hit the road for clues to the crime, with Freelance Villain Richard Widmark, 66, in hot pursuit. Along for the chase are the police, who-you guessed it-think Wilder is the murderer. Love blossoms between the two co-stars during the film, but not, it seems, during a ride aboard...
There were possibilities here. Bob Newhart plays the President of the United States; Madeline Kahn is his dipso wife, Gilda Radner his ditsy daughter. Superb comedians play supporting roles: Harvey Korman, Austin Pendleton, Bob Dishy, many more. And Buck Henry keeps threatening to prove himself a Renaissance man for this dark age of comedy. He has shown his talent in screenplays, magazine writing and, most convincingly, as a frequent guest on the Tonight show, where his deadpan surrealism is most at home. Henry may need collaborators-a Mike Nichols, a Johnny Carson-to spark his wry, reactive humor...
...Newhart plays Manfred Link, the President of the United States, who is simultaneously seeking reelection and some way to control his daughter's (Gilda Radner) irrepressible urge to "do it" and his wife's (Madeline Kahn) alcoholic intake. The story also concerns the efforts of the Link administration to gain the United Naitons' vote of a country called Upper Gorm. When the Upper Gormese ambassador visits the White House, he announces that Link and the first family have agreed to visit his country. Unfortunately, the president and his staff don't know a thing about...
...cast up by the tide, an urchin messenger, shod in jogging sneakers, knocks on Oliver's door. This is Carrie (Gilda Radner), a child bride of 22 going on eleven. She heartbrokenly announces that Nora is having an affair with her husband Peter. Peter (David Rasche), a multimillionaire, "is rich for a living," and he must have spied Carrie from his private jet, since he could scarcely have been smitten by her at Polaroid range...
Lunch Hour might have been better served by a different star. Gilda Radner is referred to as a waif, and tries to mimic scatterbrained vulnerability; but it does not wash. She radiates tensile strength. If she were crossing the Arctic wastes and her Huskies died, she could and would tow the dog sled to the Pole. That invincible force happens to be wrong for this play...