Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis’ legendary partnership ended on a high note with the 1956 Frank Tashlin masterpiece Hollywood or Bust.
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Movies don’t get much better than Modern Romance.
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Valley of the Dolls transcends camp as well as all conventional notions of good and bad.
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Mary Poppins famous showed her boobs in Blake Edwards’ bitter 1981 show-business satire S.O.B.
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Writer-director Paul Mazursky stumbled with the navel-gazing, wildly self-indulgent comedy The Pickle, a stinker by, for and about the veteran filmmaker.
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George Axelrod’s 1966 satire Lord Love a Duck is one of the weirdest movies ever released by an American studio as well as a goddamn mess.
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Charles Grodin, Mr. Sex himself, was hired to adapt the plotless, best-selling sex manual The Joy of Sex for the big screen, an experience he transformed into the basis for his 1986 flop Movers and Shakers.
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I’ve been hard at work on The Fractured Mirror, my upcoming book on movies about the movie business so I figured I would share a selection of entries from my big old literary baby.
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Singing in the Rain is unique among films widely considered the greatest of all time in being thoroughly, unapologetically vulgar and full of raucous fun.
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