TV Guide: Richard Libertini

Listing: Fletch Lives

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:45:00 -0400

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Listing: Unfaithfully Yours

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:20:00 -0400

Tue Oct 14 06:20 AM HBO2e

Listing: Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss

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Sun Oct 12 05:00 PM HALMRK

Video: Inlaws, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:38:38 -0400

Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very suspicious character, Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk). They are practically relatives already, the wedding is so near. Certainly, Sheldon already despises Vince as if he were already a well-known relative. Nontheless, Vince calls on Sheldon and convinces him to go with him on a series of wild and hilarious adventures, claiming all the while that he is a CIA agent, and that what he is doing is in the national interest. Sheldon follows Vince to a South American country ruled by a very odd man, General Garcia (Richard Libertini), who talks to his hand (which talks back). It seems that the dictator is involved in a scheme to counterfeit and undermine U.S. currency. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide.

Video: Fletch Lives

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:28:58 -0400

Though the original Fletch was drubbed by critics, it proved a major success for star Chevy Chase. It was inevitable, then, that a sequel would make an appearance. Surprisingly, Fletch Lives didn't come out until 1989--a full five years after the original. Once more, Chase stars as Irwin Maurice Fletch Fletcher, the gonzo investigative reporter created by novelist Gregory McDonald. Indulging his penchant for disguises and bizarre aliases, Fletch investigates a deep dark mystery at a crumbling Southern plantation. Various friends and enemies are portrayed con brio by Hal Holbrook, Cleavon Little, Juliane Phillips, Randall Tex Cobb, Richard Libertini and Richard Belzer (Chase's cohort from the old Groove Tube days). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Fletch

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:28:56 -0400

Chevy Chase added a classic comic hero to the film landscape with Fletch, one of his few truly popular star vehicles in a famously misguided post-Saturday Night Live career. Chase plays Irwin M. Fletcher, known to everyone as Fletch, a Los Angeles Lakers-loving investigative reporter with a gleeful disdain for deadlines and a knack for pushing the buttons of his frustrated editor (Richard Libertini). He's also known for donning numerous disguises and assuming zany false identities to help gain information. While pursuing an ongoing story about a powerful drug dealer who operates from Venice Beach, he comes across an intriguing offshoot in which he becomes intimately involved. Aviation executive Alan Stanwyk (Tim Matheson) has an unusual proposition for Fletch: If Fletch agrees to an elaborate plan to kill him, for reasons Stanwyk refuses to divulge beyond explaining that he has bone cancer, Fletch will walk away with a healthy sum of money and a plane ticket to Brazil. Curious yet suspicious by profession, Fl

Video: Best Friends

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:24:52 -0400

We'd rather not speculate over how much of Best Friends is autobiographical. We'll just note that this story of a male-female screenwriting team was written by real-life married scenarists Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin. Lovers as well as collaborators, scriveners Richard Babson (Burt Reynolds) and Paula McCullen (Goldie Hawn) decide to make their union legal. Predictably enough, they discover that their relationship goes straight downhill after they say I do. The stars are far less interesting than the supporting cast, including Jessica Tandy and Barnard Hughes as Hawn's parents, Audra Lindley and Keenan Wynn as Reynolds' folks, Ron Silver as an avaricious producer (no names, please!), and Richard Libertini as a Mexican justice of the peace. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: All Of Me

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:23:25 -0400

On her deathbed, mean-spirited millionairess Lily Tomlin has her will amended so that her soul will pass into the body of young, healthy Victoria Tennant. Thanks to a mix-up in transmutation, Tomlin winds up instead trapped in the body of upright (and uptight) attorney Steve Martin. The plot involves the fragility of male-female relationships, the importance of making commitments, and the antics of goofy guru Richard Libertini. As ridiculous as it sounds, All of Me is completely credible, thanks to Steve Martin's remarkable body language when conveying the notion that he's two different people with two different sets of emotions and gestures. Though the circumstances of the plot won't allow Martin to connect with the lovely Tennant, in real life things were different: the two costars were married shortly after filming wrapped. Phil Alden Robinson and Henry Olek adapted the script from Ed Davis' novel {-Me Too}. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Photo: A Grandpa for Christmas - Jamie Farr, Richard Libertini, Katherine Helmond, Ernest Borgnine

courtesy Hallmark Channel — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0400

A Grandpa for Christmas, Jamie Farr, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Libertini, Katherine Helmond

Photo: A Grandpa for Christmas - Richard Libertini, Tracy Nelson, Katherine Helmond, Jamie Farr, Quinn Redeker, Juliette Goglia, Ernest Borgnine

courtesy Hallmark Channel — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0400

A Grandpa for Christmas - Richard Libertini, Tracy Nelson, Katherine Helmond, Jamie Farr, Quinn Redeker, Juliette Goglia, Ernest Borgnine