Soapdish
Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman wrote the super-smart script for this meta-comedy about the soap opera drama behind a soap opera drama. Directed by Michael Hoffman, the cast features Sally Field as a fading afternoon star and Cathy Moriarty as her unscrupulous rival – their character’s names, “Celeste Talbert” and “Montana Moorehead” are just more evidence of the screenwriters’ precision edge satire.
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About John Landis
John Landis is the director of Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf In London, Trading Places, Schlock, Kentucky Fried Movie, Spies Like Us, Three Amigos!, Into The Night, The Stupids, Innocent Blood, Coming To America, Burke & Hare, and Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Black Or White among many other films, commercials and extensive work in television. He was the Executive Producer and often director of HBO's celebrated series Dream On, and contributed two movies to the Masters of Horror series, Deer Woman and Family. His feature length documentaries Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project premiered on HBO, and Slasher on IFC.
Cathy Moriarty’s character was very much a Hollywood type, even though it was set in New York.
PS: I just watched The Stupids. How ironic that Tom Arnold, once thought to be the useless half of the Roseanne marriage, turned out to be a better person than she is.
‘Tom Arnold, once thought to be the useless half of the Roseanne marriage, turned out to be a better person than she is.’
Please tell how you reached that conclusion. I mean, they’re both talent-challenged people who got VERY lucky.