Sunday, May 24, 2009

Heeere's Harvey...

I mentioned the actor James Stewart in passing in the last post.

Tonight I happened to tune into PBS and caught a documentary (?) about Jimmy Stewart, hosted by Johnny Carson. I think I'd seen parts of it before, but still, how great is that?



Clips from It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Winchester '73, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, including scenes with Duke Wayne and Henry Fonda. And interviews with Tim Conway, Carol Burnett, Kate Hepburn, Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Richard Dreyfuss and Sally Fields. Cool stuff.

But I do think it was cruel to air such a work featuring the great Johnny Carson, just a week before The Tonight Show heads to its final oblivion.

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