HBO will premiere this on Sunday at 8pm EST.
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| For someone who's spent a lifetime laughing about people, golden-age comic Don Rickles has sure made a lot of friends. From Robin Williams and Chris Rock to Clint Eastwood and Sidney Poitier, a host of Hollywood stars step up in 'Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project' to celebrate this comedic legend in his own time. John Landis - the director behind 'Animal House' and 'The Blues Brothers' - first met Rickles on a shoot as an 18-year-old gofer. Now, decades later, Landis shows the warm heart behind this famously cantankerous on-stage personality. |
Highly recommended...even if you don't much care for Rickles the insult comic, there's a lot of interesting Vegas and showbiz lore here, and plenty of guest commentators, from Chris Rock and Sarah Silverman to Jack Carter and Steve Lawrence (he and Rickles drag it up in a bizarre BIG SHOW sketch spoofing THE TURNING POINT). And clips from Rickles films including THE RAT RACE, RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP (he and Jack Warden had a good time ribbing Clark Gable), and X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES; he's excellent in all of them, suggesting that the Vegas showrooms' gain might have been Hollywood's overall loss. Good stuff, on HBO this month.