humpty

THE RATINGS GAME is one of the funniest and well written movies of all time. Its the TV industry making fun of itself. The plot is unique and clever, the love story with DeVito and Perlman is very well done and touching, and there are cameos by many great stars and stars to be. Basically its a spoof of really bad sit-coms where the lead character fraudulently manipulates the ratings to make his patently bad show beat the World Series in ratings. Brilliant movie, probably not easy to find. There are very few comedies that get me. This one is side-splitting and a real bulls-eye insightful satire of the Hollywood TV industry and scene. Bravo.

The Two Jakes allegedly had a plot. Unfortunately neither I, nor my wife could find it. Every ten minutes one of us would ask the other, 'Do you have ANY idea whats going on here?' The other would answer, 'no'. I called my friend in Cleveland who is a newspaper writer and asked him what he thought of the movie THE TWO JAKES. He replied with some emphasis, "Man, I had absolutely no idea what that movie was about. I was lost from the start.' Nicholson looked like he was just going through the motions and he looked fat. Not a small fraction the charisma he commanded in CUCKOO'S NEST. All I know is that it was a retro setting who dunnit and a sequel to CHINATOWN. By all means rent it ... if you enjoy wasting time.

My wife and I enjoyed this classic black and white Bette Davis movie. Bette plays quite a dislikable character who steals husbands, drives people to suicide and drives herself to a destructive climax. Olivia DeHavilland as is usual, plays a woman of fine charachter, victimized by a witch like co-star. Not Bad.