Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers is a 1985 comedy movie distributed by MGM. It stars Walter Matthau and was directed by William Asher.

The story follows the head of production at a Hollywood studio who wants to make a movie to fulfill a promise made to a dying friend.

The film was written by Charles Grodin, who also appears in the movie. The cast includes Tyne Daly, Gilda Radner, and Vincent Gardenia. Steve Martin makes a cameo appearance as Fabio Longio.

Plot

Hollywood studio mogul Joe Mulholland (Matthau) vows to produce the pet project of a dying acquaintance, who has been trying to find a way to make a film out of a best-selling sex manual. He and screenwriter Herb Derman (Grodin) try to make it happen, but fail in every possible way. Meanwhile, Herb is distracted by his own marital problems.

Production

Charles Grodin recounts the making of this film in his autobiography, It Would Be So Nice if You Weren't Here:

In the mid-1970s, Paramount Pictures paid a great amount of money to secure the rights to Alex Comfort's sex manual The Joy of Sex just so it could use the title, which studio executives thought to be highly commercial. In 1978, they hired Grodin to write a script, telling him the movie "could be about anything." Grodin decided to use this exact situation as the premise: a Hollywood writer struggles to write a script based on a sex manual after a big studio acquires the rights. When he finished his first draft, the studio passed and eventually released National Lampoon's Joy of Sex in 1984.

Movers & Shakers (TV series)

Movers & Shakers was an Indian late-night talk show hosted by Shekhar Suman that launched in 1997. The show aired on Sony Entertainment Television (India) until August 2011 and then on SAB TV between March and June 2012. The show format included interviews, comedy routines and performances with celebrity guests.

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