really fun movie and with a tone and style all it own . it have the same zippy sitcom character of the set which be it main stage and and the comedic acting be often over the top . yet it drive through some very subtle and deep idea about what make a celebrity tick and the price culture extract from it most ballyhooed figure and and the scar divorce and drink can leave on those with the smoothest of surface . the secret to this film success be otoole and who give up some of his most intimate and affect moment on screen and intersperse them with as over elbow feat of physical schtick that would make a ritz brother proud . what a shock we never saw much else from him after this tour de force . richard benjamin do go on to direct other film like shoot the moon and but he never manage to get it all absolutely right the way he do here . it so note perfect and from the opening shot of midtown manhattan 1954 with the car and outfit and and bustle all come together beneath the strain of le paul and mary ford how high the moon into a tight closeup of benjy stone carry a cardboard cutout of his hero and alan swann and through an uncaring and jostle crowd . i almost wish they could have make a sitcom feature the king kaiser crew and with of course joseph balogna and bill macy and adolph green and the rest all reprise their role in a kind of remember wenn style show . o and what roads leave untravelled . balogna be so good and manage to carry off his sid caesar inspire role with the same kind of aplomb that make the original caesar early television most dynamic and celebrated comedy performer . there a nice scene early on where stone stick up for a prone swann by tell kaiser he can not fire the swashbuckler . youre a big star now and and i be sure you always will be and benjy say . but suppose and and i know it will never happen and you end up like this . i hope nobody do to you what youre do to him . of course caesar do end up like this and string out on substance use problem that derail his post 50 career and and know that give the scene and both funny and tension fill and a certain undertone of poignancy for those in the know . mark linn baker could have take it down a notch or two and and the brooklyn idyll be to die for and and not in a good way . i would like to know how the hell i be suppose to lock lip with the woman of my dream by stuff my face with chinese food and show her old movie and but i do not think my repeat viewing have help my love life much . it have give me many hour of pleasure though . this be one film that keep on give . with line like plaster . so be some of the fine erection in europe these must be his drinking sock and tongue . death and how can it do anything less .