Amazon.com essential video An affectionate homage more than a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, Mel Brooks’s hilarious movie is one of the funniest modern comedies around. Brooks plays a psychiatrist with a severe fear of heights who moves to the Bay Area to take over a psychiatric hospital after its former head mysteriously disappears. He [...]
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High Anxiety
Aug 28
The multi-Emmy-winning fourth season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show showed us the sassy side of Betty White and the softer side of Ed Asner’s Lou Grant. Cast against type, White makes a memorable first impression in the season-opener as steely “Happy Homemaker” Sue Ann Nivens, who makes Martha Stewart look like June Cleaver. The [...]
She finally made it after all… to DVD! Created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, The Mary Tyler Moore Show is the very model of a tailor-made star vehicle. It transformed Moore from Dick Van Dyke’s wacky housewife to empowered thirtysomething single woman determined to make it on her own. Moore was the anchor [...]
