Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-23 (Monday)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 03:38:37 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <103fqvs$2hjb5$1@dont-email.me>
References: <UBI20250623@dont-email.me> <103ebg6$21pra$1@dont-email.me> <1402049294.772471349.370745.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <103fpmt$2hch6$2@dont-email.me>
Injection-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:38:37 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b8e2c1d7e1e564704d6ae03ea0d5ef91";
	logging-data="2674021"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18LinEkkpegw9I8B1k+XkHBNXjn/9tMp38="
Cancel-Lock: sha1:T0bJWo0GAF/mR5LtW+iBbi2QNFk=
X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010)

>>Does it bear any resemblance to The Last of Sheila which The Player Is
>>a direct rip off of?

>I never heard of "The Last of Sheila."  I'm going to have to track it 
>down and watch it.

It's quite entertaining. Written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen
Sondheim, based on murder mysteries they created for friends to play
along with. Dyan Cannon gained weight for the role and I still think she
was sexy. You have to suspend disbelieve that her character is several
decades older. Ian McShane before Lovejoy, and Raquel Welch not in on
the gag that her character was based on herself. James Mason as a has
been, and James Coburn just being his cool self with a lot of malice.
Richard Benjamin and Joan Hackett.