mark linn baker play benjy stone and who reminisce about my favorite year in this 1982 film star peter otoole and joseph bologna and anne disalvo and bill macy and and lainie kazan . set in 1954 and baker play a young nbc writer for a live tv show star a sid caesar type ( bologna ) . he be put in charge of a drunken film swashbuckler name alan swann ( otoole ) to keep him sober and make sure he show up for the rehearsal and the performance . this include bring swann ( totally base on errol flynn ) to his family home in brooklyn for dinner and rid on a steal policeman horse through central park and and witness swann go over a rooftop with a fireman hose tie around him . that actually the good news . all go well until swann realizes it go to be a live show . i play before an audience once . he scream . i be a butler . i have one line . i forget it . one of my favorite line be make all the more hysterical by otoole throw it away when he question about go to the stork club and he say and why not . it be a year . surely they have fix the wall and replace the bandstand . the film capture the egomania of the tv star with bologna fabulous portrayal of king kaiser and who be be threaten by a mobster ( cameron mitchell ) due to his weekly impersonation of the man while their scene together be a riot . mark linn baker be delightful . the other actor fit their role to a t. as far a otoole and what can be say . a alan swann and he be sheer perfection dissipate but handsome and drunken but charm and frustrate but lovable a man who hide his sorrow and fear and loneliness in drink and debauchery . a truly great portrayal that doesn not simply rely on the surface comedy but let you see the man beneath . director richard benjamin give u the feel of 50 new york and live tv in all of it excitement and keep the pace go beautifully . a real treasure you would not mind see more than once .