To the list of things about which I will mutter angrily to my ingrate son, in my dotage, from the recline of my pseudo-lazyboy, in the grim home where he’s placed me, add

The Pink Panther 2. It makes you kind of fond for the days when Blake Edwards was trying to squeeze a last few dollars out of Peter Sellers’ corpse with that guy from “Soap.”

6 thoughts on “To the list of things about which I will mutter angrily to my ingrate son, in my dotage, from the recline of my pseudo-lazyboy, in the grim home where he’s placed me, add”

  1. It comes to something when you can’t even squeeze enough humor into a two minute trailer to make it worth watching. It pains me to see Steve Martin do this stuff, even more so than crap like ‘cheaper by the dozen.’

    Anyone see ‘Che’ so something equivalent? I have never felt so alienated from movies as now.

  2. I was stunned to see this ad. Was there a first film with Steve Martin? and was it popular enough to justify a sequel? or was the first one with that Italian guy who has since disappeared? I heard Steve Martin interviewed recently and he mentioned how relieved he was to receive the “respect” that came with being a movie star and how grateful he was to drop stand up. He didn’t mention that he died soon after Dirty Rotten Scoundrels . jesus, would somebody put a stake through him already?

  3. i remember a john cleese interview in which he says that martin has a very fine collection of modern art, and essentially makes a crap studio movie every time he wants to buy something new.

  4. There was indeed a PP1, with Martin, coming some years after the misfire with Benigni. And judging from the theater I was in, and where my son saw the ads, this is pitched pretty firmly to kids — who ate it up, not knowing any better. I’d say it was inoffensive, but for the fact that it so aggressively worked to preclude laughter I felt stunned at the end.

    I hope he can’t afford anything better than a Koons.

  5. wow, Martin and I have similar practices. Every time I want to buy a sandwich, I teach a section of first-year writing.

    From NY Times:

    As Koons Prices Balloon, His Dallas ‘Flower’ Will Be Sold
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    Published: May 23, 2008
    AS KOONS PRICES BALLOON,

    His Dallas ‘Flower’ Will Be Sold

    For years “Balloon Flower (Magenta),” one of Jeff Koons’s monumental sculptures, has been the jewel in Howard and Cindy Rachofsky’s collection of modern and contemporary art in Dallas. Floating gracefully in a pond, the shiny stainless steel work has been a centerpiece of a three-acre private property that also includes a pristine modern house by Richard Meier.

    But this signature sculpture from Mr. Koons’s “Celebration” series has appreciated to such an extent that the Rachofskys have decided to sell it at Christie’s in London on June 30. Experts there predict that it will sell for about $23.5 million. (The Rachofskys paid about $1.1 million for it, roughly seven years ago.)

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/arts/design/23voge.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

  6. Steve Martin may think he’s broken off entirely from his stand up days. But if he ends up buying Koons’s “Balloon Flower (Magenta)” there will be plenty of evidence to suggest there’s some kind of conceptual continuity to his career.

    I’d pay good money to see Martin put the Koons on his head.

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