Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Conversations with Steve Martin


Steve Martin's works have passed through my life from my earliest days.  My family was always big into comedies.  I'm not going to say that my one uncle videotaped off of HBO practically every movie that they showed in the 80s.  Plenty of Martin movies were part of that unsubstantiated archive.  But it wasn't until the cusp of my adult when I understood, or rather realized that I did not yet fully understand, the work of Steve Martin.  Late one night A Simple Twist of Fate came on.  The credits said Steve Martin, so I settled in for solid entertainment.  What I got was a character study of a complex man.  My eyes were opened to a whole new world - that a comedian could be so much more.