Prizefighter and The lady, The [DVD] TV Comedy Juliana Cannarozzo

Juliana Cannarozzo

Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital will never be the same again

this star vehicle for comic actress Louise Lasser was one of the boldest series of the seventies: a laugh-track-free send-up of soap operas that was also a surprisingly probing and intense critique of capitalism

but fate and tragedy conspire to tear them apart

Prizefighter and The lady, The [DVD] TV Comedy Juliana CannarozzoThe prizefighter is the real deal, real life World Heavyweight Champion Max Baer in an acclaimed performance. The lady; she's the real deal, too: Myrna Loy, just before she shot to renown in the Thin Man. The movie is a two fisted bruiser of a rags to riches fight story, as fast and stinging as a workout on the punching bag. W. S. Van Dyke directs this saga of a has been fight manager (Walter Huston) who rebuilds his career on the muscled back of a