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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-02 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 11:45:28 -0700
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On 6/3/25 10:21 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> Johnny Dangersly (Cinemax) - I scoured my DVR and found this one that's
>> been sitting there since 2023.  This is 1984 comedy directed by Amy
>> Heckerling, and starring Michael Keaton as "Johnny Dangerously," a 1930s
>> mobster who gets into wacky criminal adventures.  Peter Boyle also stars
>> as Johnny's crime boss. Marilu Henner plays Johnny's girlfriend. Danny
>> DeVito plays a corrupt DA.  Joe Piscopo plays another crook (if you saw
>> the movie you know his catchphrase!), and Griffin Dunne plays Johnny's
>> younger brother, who Johnny put through law school only for the brother
>> to become a DA who then goes after Johnny.  There are several more
>> celebrity cameos.  This is one of those movies I watched all the time
>> when I was a kid, but I haven't seen this since the mid 80s.  After all
>> of these years I still remembered a couple of the gags, but the overall
>> movie was just OK.  It was a lot funnier when I was 8 years old seeing
>> Mr. Mom play a gangster.
> 
> Amy Heckerling wrote and directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High and
> Clueless.
> 
> I have no recollection of this movie but it's possible I saw it.

I've seen no more than bits and pieces of it, and that would have been 
years ago.