My first exposure to him was: The Russians Are Coming, still one of my favorite comedies, which never fails to deliver even after more than a dozen screenings. I saw Mad Mad World before that, but was too young to really have a sense of Winters at that time.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > > > If you never saw it, there was a limited release pseudo-documentary on > > Winters that, I think, is on Netflix and is worth checking out: > > > > http://www.tvornottv.net/2011/03/25/certifably-jonathan/ > > > > And, as if we needed to bring things full circle, here's Roger Ebert's > > pan of the film (basically, Ebert would have liked an actual > > documentary more than the mock one that was produced): > > > > http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/certifiably-jonathan-2011 > > > Yeah, I happen to have watched "Certifiably Jonathan" on Netflix a couple > weeks ago, found it frustrating and annoying, and I agree with Ebert's > assessment. My time probably would have been better spent re-listening to > Marc Maron's podcast interview with Winters (which, Marc said on Twitter > earlier tonight, will be reposted at wtfpod.com on Saturday). > > Or re-watching the "Frickert Fracas" episode of "The New Scooby-Doo > Movies," which I'm pretty sure was my first encounter with Jonathan > Winters, even before he was added to the "Mork & Mindy" cast. > > -- > Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> > <http://www.ellwanger.tv> > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
