American game-show host and author; won 74 straight Jeopardy! games in 2004, has hosted the show from 2021 to 2026, and co-hosts the podcast Omnibus with John Roderick.
The sheer infectious glee of A Hard Day’s Night, on the other hand, actually gets across what it must have been like to be the Beatles in 1964. Since I was ten years old, I’ve probably watched this movie once a year.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Ken Jennings, the entry for A Hard Day’s Night.
but only The Palm Beach Story has Claudette Colbert raising the blood pressure of the Wienie King. Other Sturges movies only aspire to the off-the-rails insanity that this movie achieves in its first and last thirty seconds.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Ken Jennings, the entry for The Palm Beach Story.
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