Just like "Starting Over"

I love this Wil Barnet painting. Isn't it great? And it's not just because of all the time I lie around in bed with a cat on me, looking all fish-eyed out from under whatever I'm reading. A framed poster of it is hanging up near my bed. So I was taken aback when the other night, watching this movie, Starting Over, I noticed it in the very first scene.



Burt Reynolds and Candice Bergen are breaking up in MY bedroom, basically! I mean, what the hell! Burt, Candice: Get out of my apartment and go settle it somewhere else! Damn.



Now about this movie. It's so magnificently silly and great, and so, so funny...if anything, it's a bit sad watching it, realizing, they sure as hell don't make movies like this anymore. Well, and it's hard to not think of director Alan Pakula's horribly random death on the godforsaken Long Island Expressway, too. But it's a comedy, people! A COMEDY!! I mean, Candice Bergen unexpectedly belting out crazy Carole Bayer Sager songs...a grumpy ex-husbands' support group with Austin Pendleton, Wallace Shawn, and Jay O. Sanders...