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The Tonight Show: Episode #1.1 (1962)
First Tonight Show After Jack Paar Left
This was the Monday after Jack Paar left the show on Thursday March 29th (the Friday show was a Paar rerun).
Guest hosts would continue to host "The Tonight Show" (this was actually the first time it was officially named as such) for the next six months until Johnny Carson took over On October 1, 1962.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: George Jessel, Libby Morris, Paul Gallico, Joey Heatherton (1963)
First Tonight Show After The Kennedy Assassination
This would have been the Tuesday following the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963. It also would have been the first Tonight Show to air after the NBC News wall to wall coverage, which ended Monday.
I've never seen it but wonder if the entire show (or more than this show) had a significant somberness to it.
It would be a real find to hear or see this show (or any show following the murder in Dallas.
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
I Was Shocked...SHOCKED at how awful this film was.
This is one of those "classics" that I never got around seeing, until tonight, and I wish I hadn't.
The premise of sweet old ladies killing men and burying them in the cellar is a good one, but oh, God, the script and performances are more like cartoons than a dark comedy as it was advertised to be.
Cary Grant is the worst thing here. One of our greatest stars, mugging it up and acting like Fred McMurry on speed is an insult to those who come here with expectations of good works. It doesn't work. How could it.
The film is filled with excellent actors from Grant to Josephine Hull as Aunt Abby Brewster, Jean Adair as Aunt Martha Brewster, Raymond Massey as Jonathan Brewster, Peter Lorre as Dr. Herman Einstein not to mention Jack Carson, James Gleason and Edward Everett Horton for flavor.
But the whole flavor of the film is that of the tragedy of what could have been. 1940's Brooklyn, murder, old ladies, great actors...all lost is a simply pathetic attempt at........
My God...I just don't know. I don't know what the Hell they were trying to do. It doesn't seem to be a failure. Frank Capra seems quite confident is his pursuit.
Of just what; is lost to history.