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The Sunshine Boys
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Originally a 1972 play by Neil Simon, The Sunshine Boys is best remembered for its 1975 film adaptation directed by Herbert Ross and starring Walter Matthau and George Burns, the latter in a career-reviving, Academy Award winning performance.Willy Clark (Matthau) and Al Lewis (Burns) were once a famous vaudeville comedy Double Act, "Lewis and Clark, the Sunshine Boys". Eleven years after the two parted ways on unfriendly terms, Willy's nephew Ben (Richard Benjamin) is a talent agent who's been trying to find his uncle work. One day, ABC inquires about having the Sunshine Boys appear in an upcoming TV special on the history of comedy. Now, it's up to Ben to persuade the long-estranged duo to patch up their differences and get back together.Remade as a 1996 Made-for-TV Movie directed by John Erman, starring Woody Allen as Al, Peter Falk as Willy, and Sarah Jessica Parker as Willy's niece/agent Nancy. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Lewis and Clark were loosely based on such real life vaudeville-era comedy duos as Smith and Dale (whose "Dr. Kronkeit" routine is the obvious inspiration for the "Doctor Sketch") and Gallagher and Shean (who were well-known for their tempestuous offstage relationship). | |
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The Cameo: Steve Allen and Phyllis Diller are among the stars appearing in the same TV special as Lewis and Clark. | |
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Hospital Hottie: One of the supporting characters in the Sunshine Boys' trademark "Doctor Sketch" is a buxom blonde nurse in a tight-fitting uniform with a low-cut neckline and short hemline, and the routine features many jokes about the doctor played by Willy (and, eventually, the patient played by Al) getting not-so-subtle looks down one end of her uniform and up the other. | |
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Scatterbrained Senior: Both Willy and Al display elements of this. | |
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Sad Clown: The heated arguments between Clark and Lewis may be humorous, but also sad and hardest to watch at the same time as you think about it: these two elder actors were a successful comedy act and initially the best of friends, but then parted on negative terms and both became the grouchy shadows of their former selves, especially Willy, who was the most cantankerous and stubborn, yet refuses to give up acting when it is already evident his career is all but dead due to his being difficult to work with, his delusions of non-existent acting success, and his own unlikable arrogance. It's quite heart-wrenching to realize that after all these years, the rancor remains. | |
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Forgetful Jones | |
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Forgetful Jones: Willy and Al both display this at times for comedic effect. They will ask questions someone has just answered, repeat something someone has just said as though introducing a new topic into the conversation, and have the same conversation with the same person multiple times in succession. | |
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Spiteful Spit: One of Willy's big complaints about Al is that the latter has a tendency to spit onstage when he pronounces words beginning with "t" (something Willy is convinced Al does on purpose). This causes problems in the tech rehearsal of the Doctor Sketch when Al has to play the part of a tax collector from the Treasury Department. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: Willy and Al, prior to their acrimonious falling-out. By the end of the play/film they appear to have reconciled enough to be well on their way to becoming Vitriolic Best Buds once again. | |
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Oh God, with the Verbing! | |
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Oh God, with the Verbing!: Al keeps pointing his finger at Willy's chest. This leads to a moment during the rehearsals: | |
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Jewish Complaining | |
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Jewish Complaining: Willy and Al partake in much of it. Willy goes off like a rocket over Al's habits of spitting when he says words with a "T" sound and poking him in the chest with his forefinger for emphasis, while at their first rehearsal of the Doctor Sketch at Willy's apartment, Al goes berserk over Willy changing the line "Come in!" to a hammy "En-ter!", which Willy claims is an attempt to freshen up a sketch they've done 11,000 times before. At the end of the film, Willy complains about Ben seemingly spending 60 cents calling Al in New Jersey (he's actually downstairs in the lobby of Willy's hotel), while when Al comes upstairs and Willy is rude to him, he complains about having spent $1 in tolls to come up from New Jersey. | |
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Large Ham: Willy, to the constant irritation of Al, who hates the fact he's distorting the act with it. | |
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Inherently Funny Words | |
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Inherently Funny Words: Discussed by Willy with Ben; according to Willy, words with a "K" sound (such as "cupcake") are funny, and words without it (such as "tomato") are not. At the beginning of the film, Ben has secured Willy an audition for a Frumpie's Potato Chips commercial, but Willy keeps changing the name because he doesn't think the word "Frumpie's" is funny enough. | |
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Grumpy Old Man | |
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Grumpy Old Man: Willy and Al. Willy is especially cantankerous to everyone around him, including Ben. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: Ultimately, Willy and Al can't get past their differences long enough to complete a rehearsal, let alone a performance. The producers of the special decide to use archival footage of an old performance instead. | |
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Big Applesauce: Willy invokes a bit of this while arguing with Al. | |
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Shout-Out: The very first (post-credits) shot of the film is a closeup of the Times Square statue of legendary Broadway composer-producer George M. Cohan (of Yankee Doodle Dandy fame), shown with a pigeon resting on its head. It's mentioned that Lewis and Clark appeared together on The Ed Sullivan Show prior to their breakup. | |
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Glory Days | |
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Glory Days: Willy has a hard time accepting that he's not a star anymore. Part of the reason for his feud with Al is that the latter broke up the act, thereby taking said stardom away. | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language: Both Al and Willy use plenty of Yiddish in their dialogue. | |
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