“My Favorite Year” quotes
(1982)
Title My Favorite Year
Year 1982
Director Richard Benjamin
Genre Comedy
Year 1982
Director Richard Benjamin
Genre Comedy
Plot – The movie is set in 1954. Benjy Stone is one of the authors of a popular TV show hosted by King Kaiser, a comedian. Kaiser decides to invite Alan Swann to the show, who once was a matinee idol. Benjy is enthusiastic to work together with his youth’s hero, but Swann arrives drunk at the studios and Kaiser wants to send him away. Benjy offers himself as Swann’s ‘babysitter’, assuring that he will be sober. However, Kaiser has to deal with other problems.
All actors – Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan, Anne De Salvo, Basil Hoffman, Lou Jacobi, Adolph Green, Tony DiBenedetto, George Wyner
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“- Alan Swann: You see, people like me wear targets. I'm blamed for a lot of things I had absolutely nothing to do with. On the other hand, because of who I am, I get away with murder in other areas. I suppose it all balances out in the end.
- Belle Carroca: Does it really, Swannee?
- Benjy Stone: Ma, he's an actor, not a river.”“- Alan Swann: Stone... I'm afraid. I'm afraid. That's why I couldn't get out of the car to see my Tess, my child.
- Benjy Stone: Alan Swann, afraid? The Defender of the Crown? Captain from Tortuga? The Last Knight of the Round Table?
- Alan Swann: Those are movies, damn you! Look at me! I'm flesh and blood, life-size, no larger! I'm not that...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Alan Swann: Stone, I want you to know that this morning I had absolutely no idea I was in the process of inserting myself into an arrangement that already existed between you and Miss Downing.
- Benjy Stone: Would it have made any difference?
- Alan Swann: No.”“- Alan Swann: Are you in love with the girl?
- Benjy Stone: I think I am. But, I don't know what she wants.
- Alan Swann: Romance, Stone. That's the only thing that you can be sure they all want.”
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