2007年12月2日 · Washed up, boozed up, actor Alan Swann finds his inner swashbuckler and saves the day at the conclusion of the entertaining 1982 movie, "My Favorite Year."...more

During the week of rehearsals, Kaiser is threatened by gangster Karl Rojeck, a corrupt union boss who objects to being parodied on the show. Disruptive events, ambiguous between real sabotage and random accidents, are noted after Kaiser belligerently insists on …

"My Favorite Year" works its way up to that fateful Saturday night, where there's a lot going on backstage. Sketches on the show have been poking fun at a crooked union boss (Cameron Mitchell), and he has sent his stooges to beat up Kaiser on live TV.

2020年11月20日 · 1. End Credits2. My Favorite Year From MGM/UA Entertainment Co. Screen3. 1997 Turner Logo4. MGM/UA Copyright ScreenPrint Date: March 25th, 1998.

2014年9月2日 · End titles theme from My Favorite Year (1982) composed by Ralph Burns.

Swann mentors Benjy, which ultimately results Benjy unable to stop the drunken star from crashing a party at the home of K.C.'s affluent parents, ending with them in the wrong apartment. The night of the show, Swann suffers a panic attack after Benjy informs him that the program is broadcast live, and is not taped as Swann expected.

You can end your year intentionally like I did. Just block out a half hour or so during the holiday season, pick up something to write with, and ask yourself ten questions:

While valuable on its own terms, this reflective study of the Sid Caesar televisual area also allows My Favorite Year to widen out into a comparably thoughtful meditation on a broader, if related, facet of mid-twentieth-century popular culture: cinema’s irreversible ceding of significant commercial and cultural capital to television in the ...

My Favorite Year: Directed by Richard Benjamin. With Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna. An aging, dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show in 1954, and a young comedy writer is tasked with the thankless job of keeping him ready and sober for the broadcast.

Swann's unpredictability, in part in combination with issues regarding the show's on-going 'Boss Hijack' sketch, which was based on real life mobster Karl Rojeck, led to an interesting end to the week for both Benjy and Swann.