Movies

November, 1982

Imagine a drunken movie star doing a guest shot on a major TV variety show called Comedy Cavalcade back in 1954, with one of the show's junior writers assigned to keep the superstar sober until air time. That's all ye need to know about the plot of My Favorite Year (MGM), an old-fashioned farcical mishmash full of wildly mixed blessings but mostly redeemed by a string of hilarious comic highlights. Peter O'Toole plays the flamboyant, swashbuckling actor, apparently someone a lot like Errol Flynn...