TV Guide: Buck Henry

Listing: Short Cuts

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:40:00 -0500

Wed Dec 10 02:40 AM HBO2e

Listing: To Die For

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:00:00 -0500

Mon Dec 8 06:00 PM HBO2e

Listing: Town & Country

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:15:00 -0500

Fri Dec 5 03:15 PM IFC

Listing: The Man Who Fell to Earth

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:10:00 -0500

Fri Dec 5 12:10 AM SHO2e

Video: Buck Henry / Jennifer Warnes - May 21, 1977

iTunes — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:33:04 -0500

Buck Henry returns to host with musical guests Jennifer Warnes ("Right Time of the Night") and Kenny Vance (The Performer).

Video: Buck Henry / The Band - October 30, 1976

iTunes — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:32:01 -0500

Buck Henry hosts SNL for the third time is accidentally cut on the forehead by John Belushi during the Samurai Stockbroker sketch. The Band performs three songs: Life is Carnival, The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, and Stage Fright.

Video: Buck Henry / Sun Ra - May 20, 1978

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:14:50 -0500

Buck Henry hosts with musical guest Sun Ra. Sketches include Nerd Prom, Samurai T.V. Repairman, Greek Restaurant, Stunt Puppy and Point/Counterpoint.

Video: Buck Henry / Leon Redbone - November 19, 1977

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:14:03 -0500

Buck Henry hosts and kicks off Anyone Can Host contest where we meet the five finalists. Leon Redbone returns as musical guest (Champagne Charlie and Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone).

Video: Buck Henry / Gordon Lightfoot - May 22, 1976

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:13:37 -0500

Buck Henry returns to host with musical guest Gordon Lightfoot ("Summertime Dream" and "Spanish Moss"). Sketches include Peter Lemon Mood Ring, Samurai Tailor, Phone-In Talk Back, Toads, Weekend Update, Baba Wawa & Lina, Beatles Offer and a film by Gary Weis ("Toilet Seats"). Mr. Mike (Michael O'Donoghue) and two girls make a special appearance as Tony Orlando & Dawn. Originally aired May 22, 1976.

Video: Buck Henry / Bill Withers, Toni Basil - January 17, 1976

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:13:06 -0500

Buck Henry hosts with musical guests Bill Withers ("Ain't No Sunshine') and Toni Basil ("Wham"). Sketches include Suicide Prevention Cold Open, Samurai Deli, Kennedy Talk, Ford Press Conference, Germasol, Citizen Kane II, Weekend Update (Chevy Mugging), Mechanics Bedtime Story, King Bee, Why Call It Dope and a film by Gary Weis ("Who's Funny?"). Jim Henson's Muppets and Michael O'Donoghue (Mike Douglas w/Needles) make special appearances. Originally aired January 17, 1976.

Video: Episode #209

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:24:54 -0500

It's holiday time and the staff of "TGS with Tracy Jordan" is having their annual "Ludachristmas" party -- complete with music, merriment, "The Human Table" and a Horny Santa. Unfortunately, Tracy (Tracy Morgan) can't participate due to his newly court mandated alcohol monitoring bracelet. Since holidays mean special family time, Liz's (Tina Fey) parents, Dick (Guest star Buck Henry) and Margaret (Guest star Anita Gillette) Lemon, and her 40-year-old brother Mitch (Guest star Andy Richter), who suffers from memory loss due to a skiing accident and thinks he is a 17-year-old high school senior, come to gloat over their "beautiful genius" daughter. Jack's (Alec Baldwin) jaded mother, Colleen (Guest star Elaine Stritch), even shows up unexpectedly from Florida. The Lemons and the Donaghys go to dinner together, where Colleen spends the night trying to break the eternal optimism of the Lemon family. Meanwhile, in the spirit of Christmas cheer, Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) decides to teach the writing staff a lesson on

Video: Gloria

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:24:13 -0500

he's an ex-gun moll and showgirl suddenly forced to protect a kid whose parents have been rubbed out by the mob. Now the mob wants the kid dead too - but first they'll have to deal with Gloria (Gena Rowlands in an Oscar-nominated performance, Best Actress, 1980.) Director John Cassavetes, known for his unique approach to filmmaking, creates a powerful, tension-filled story. An accountant (Buck Henry) is in possession of a ledger which could put a number of mob bosses behind bars for a long time. Before he is killed, however, he manages to entrust the ledger and his son to a neighbor, Gloria, for protection. Gloria reluctantly takes the kid on the run while keeping the mob at bay, sometimes at the point of a gun. Finally, tired of running, she decides to confront them head on!

Video: Saturday Night Live Season 3

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:30:15 -0500

Buck Henry hosts with musical guest Sun Ra. Sketches include Nerd Prom, Samurai T.V. Repairman, Greek Restaurant, Stunt Puppy and Point/Counterpoint.

Video: Saturday Night Live (SNL) November 19, 1977 – Buck Henry / Leon Redbone

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:10:54 -0500

Buck Henry hosts and kicks off Anyone Can Host contest where we meet the five finalists. Leon Redbone returns as musical guest ("Champagne Charlie" and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone").

Video: Saturday Night Live (SNL) May 20, 1978 ? Buck Henry / Sun Ra

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:35:56 -0500

Buck Henry hosts with musical guest Sun Ra. Sketches include Nerd Prom, Samurai T.V. Repairman, Greek Restaurant, Stunt Puppy and Point/Counterpoint.

Video: Episode 5

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:28:15 -0500

Studio Head deals with trust issues as he finds out his shrink has exposed his secrets in a tell-all book. Starring Michael McKean, Jennifer Coolidge, Bob Balaban. Paul Reubens, Buck Henry and Nora Ephron guest star.

Video: Dark Before Dawn

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:55:59 -0500

The good people of Milo, Kansas (pop. 1,972) combine forces to battle against the evil agribusiness Farmco that conspires to drive up the price of bread to six dollars a loaf. Farmer Jeff Parker (Sonny Gibson) and the crusading journalist Charlie Stevens (Buck Henry) recruit former Farmco executive James Kirkland (Doug McClure) who resigns when his conscience bothers him too much. Reporter Roger Crandall (Paul Newson) uncovers the plot to inflate the price of grain and sends it to colleague Jessica Stanton (Reparata Mazzola) before he is killed. Jessica investigates Roger's accidental death and the shooting of a federal grain inspector. Jeff saves Jessica after she is kidnapped and drugged with ether. Ben Johnson plays the local sheriff in this message drama. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide.

Video: I'm Losing You

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:28:20 -0500

This 1998 film about a dysfunctional Los Angeles family is directed by Bruce Wagner, on whose novel this is based. Everyone in this family has a problem. Perry (Frank Langella) is a successful TV producer who has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer just before his 60th birthday. His son Bertie (Andrew McCarthy) is an unsuccessful actor but a wonderful father with an adorable daughter and an ex-wife who is known to show up for visitations visibly stoned. Rachel (Rosanna Arquette), a niece who is now his adopted daughter, finds out that her father murdered her mother years ago before taking his own life. We follow these characters as they go through their share of hardships and love. We are given a lot to chew on, including death, adultery, AIDS, and deceit. Wagner got a lot of very good actors to appear in small roles, including Amanda Donohoe, Buck Henry, Elizabeth Perkins, and Ed Begley Jr.. Prior to this film Wagner was chiefly known as the writer of Wild Palms and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Bever

Video: Player, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:09:47 -0500

Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a disgruntled writer because he has committed the ultimate Hollywood sin -- he promised the writer he would call him back and he never did. This is particularly ironic because the studio executive, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), is considered writer-friendly, spending his days listening to pitches from such noted screenwriters as Buck Henry, who is pushing The Graduate, Part II and Alan Rudolph, who is hawking a Bruce Willis action film described as Ghost meets The Manchurian Candidate. But The Player finds Griffin's comfortable life style in danger of collapse. He is trying to find a way to unload his girlfriend (Cynthia Stevenson) whose independence and intelligence make her a poor candidate for a trophy wife. More impor

Video: Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:28:32 -0500

Writer/director Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until Good Will Hunting -- is based on Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist bestseller. Uma Thurman plays Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with very large thumbs. After her parents (Grace Zabriskie and Ken Kesey) take her to a doctor (Buck Henry), who offers her parents no remedy for their daughter's condition, the film races ahead to the 1970s. Sissy is now a popular feminine hygiene spray model for a product called Yoni Yum, the product of a company owned by The Countess (John Hurt in drag). Sissy travels to the Rubber Rose beauty ranch, also owned by The Countess, to shoot a Yoni Yum commercial. At the ranch, she makes the acquaintance of the inscrutable Chink (Pat Morita) and Bonanza Jellybean (Rain Phoenix). But under the nose of The Countess, the cowgirls on the ranch are talking mutiny, with the women trying to liberate the Rubber Rose Ranch from the chains of patriarchal oppression. ~ Paul Brenner, All

Video: Catch 22

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:22:27 -0500

Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing missions, but publicity-obsessed commander Colonel Cathcart (Martin Balsam) and his yes man, Colonel Korn (Henry), keep raising the number of missions that Yossarian and his comrades are required to fly. After Doc Daneeka (Jack Gilford) tells Yossarian that he cannot declare him insane if Yossarian knows that it's insane to keep flying, Yossarian tries to play crazy by, among other things, showing up nude in front of despotic General Dreedle (Orson Welles). As all of Yossarian's initially even-keeled friends, such as Nately (Art Garfunkel) and Dobbs (Martin Sheen), genuinely lose their heads, and the troop's supplies are bartered away for profit by the ultra-entrepreneurial Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight), Yossarian realiz

Video: Candy

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:22:01 -0500

In this big-budget adaptation of Terry Southern's satiric sex farce (the sort of project that could get an immediate green light in the late 1960's and at practically no other time before or since), Ewa Aulin is Candy, a sweet young woman who doesn't seem entirely aware of the powerful sexual desire she brings out in men. While her father (John Astin) and mother (Elsa Martinelli) try to keep Candy in line, the task proves to be all but impossible, as she's seduced by a remarkable variety of men in her journeys, including a booze-addled poet (Richard Burton), a mystical guru who lives on a truck (Marlon Brando), a gardener from Mexico (Ringo Starr), a fanatical military man who refuses to leave his plane (Walter Matthau), a pair of uncomfortably high-strung doctors (John Huston and James Coburn) and even her own uncle (Astin, again). The Byrds and Steppenwolf contributed songs to the soundtrack; the screenplay was written by Buck Henry. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Grumpy Old Men

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:56:40 -0500

This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly elevated by the presence of masterful performers in the lead roles. Jack Lemmon is John Gustafson, an ice-fishing Minnesota native who has been feuding with his neighbor and former best friend Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) for decades. The battle of wills between John and Max is characterized by crude name calling and harmless practical jokes. Max is unaware that John is having serious problems, chiefly that his daughter Melanie (Daryl Hannah) is experiencing marital woes and that his house is about to be confiscated by an officious IRS agent (Buck Henry). When it seems that John and Max may finally put aside their childish rivalry, however, sexy new neighbor Ariel (Ann-Margret) arrives and dates both men, pitting them against each other more fiercely than ever before. Despite their mutual loathing, the death of a friend, John's problems, and a budding romance between Max's son Jacob (K

Video: Saturday Night Live Season 2

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:35:49 -0500

Buck Henry returns to host with musical guests Jennifer Warnes ("Right Time of the Night") and Kenny Vance ("The Performer").

Photo: 30 Rock - Season 2 - Anita Gillette as "Margaret", Buck Henry as "Dick", Andy Richter as "Mitch", Tina Fey as "Liz Lemon"

courtesy Nicole Rivelli/NBC — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

30 Rock, Anita Gillette, Buck Henry, Andy Richter, Tina Fey