Walter Matthau — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Charles Grodin Was Hired to Adapt The Joy of Sex for the Big Screen, Which Somehow Led to Him Writing and Starring in the 1986 Flop Movers and Shakers

Charles Grodin, Mr. Sex himself, was hired to adapt the plotless, best-selling sex manual The Joy of Sex for the big screen, an experience he transformed into the basis for his 1986 flop Movers and Shakers.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinNovember 10, 2022Charles Grodin, Steve Martin, The Joy of Sex, John Belushi, Walter Matthau

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #233 JFK (1991)

Back, and to the left.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinSeptember 20, 2021Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, John Candy, JFK, conspiracy theory, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ed Asner

My World of Flops, Trigger Happy Case File #189 The Survivors (1983)

Lovable Losers/Bad With Money Month gets off to a bit of a sleepy start with a look at Michael Ritchie’s muddled 1983 survivalist satire The Survivors, with Walter Matthau as a lovable everyman and Robin Williams as a right-wing gun nut/militia member. Its problems include casting Robin Williams as a right wing gun nut/militia member.

My World Of Flops, Lovable Losers MonthNathan RabinSeptember 2, 2021Michael Ritchie, Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, satire, guns, "Trigger Happy", My World of Flops, Reaganomics

My World of Flops Crazy People/Pre-Loqueesha Case File #183 The Couch Trip (1988)

Charles Grodin Month continues with a look at the 1988 dark comedy The Couch Trip, which is just like Loqueesha only not racist, sexist and terrible.

Charles Grodin Month, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJune 24, 2021Charles Grodin, Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Michael Ritchie, dark comedy, Film, My World of Flops, insanity, mental hospital, Donna Dixon