As with the other series, the two critics discuss the new releases du jour, and also special episodes dedicated to specific actors or directors, in this case, future Oscar winner Robin Williams, who earned his 2nd nomination for "Good Morning, Vietnam".
By the time this episode aired in the winter of 1988, "Vietnam" had just gone into general release, and I'd seen it at a local theatre. It would remain Williams' best work until topped by his Oscar winning effort in "Good Will Hunting". Fittingly, "Vietnam" was released by Disney's Touchstone division.
Rating: A.
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Just looking at that opening title sequence:
Gene Siskel at a word processor.
Roger Ebert at a typewriter.
Roger exiting the Sun-Times building, walking past the glassed-in press plant.
Gene dashing out of the Tribune Tower to hail a cab.
The Critics posing beside the Times and Trib trucks, with their logos of old ...
In the years since, the Sun-Times building, with its in-house presses, has been demolished;
in its place is a high-rise monstrosity bearing the name of a New York real estate swindler whose name escapes me at the moment ... (;-)
Meanwhile, the Tribune moved out of its namesake Tower (after being sold and resold many times); God knows where they are now ...
... and if Gene and Roger were to return from The Great Beyond, I wonder if they'd be able to find their way around the old home town ...
Happy 2023 (we hope).
Oh, in other words, the Sun-Times building was destroyed to make way for a Trump building. Maybe that gets wrecked next, right along with the man himself....!
A Little Bit Belated:
Buildings don't get wrecked; they get sold, to some rich fathead who likes to see his name up in brass.
Recommended Reading:
"The Theft Of The Brazen Letters", by Edward D. Hoch, as it appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in November 1968: hard to find these days, but worth checking out ...
But if Trump ends up like the Duke Brothers in Trading Places.......!
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