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Roxanne

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  • Title: Roxanne
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Cyrano de Bergerac, the 19th Century play by Edmond Rostand, has been adapted more than two dozen times over the years for film and television (including a new version starring Peter Dinklage). By far, my favorite take on the story of the remarkable man with wit, cunning, athleticism, the heart of a poet, and an comedically large nose that keeps him from sharing his affections with the one he loves, came in the form of 1987’s Roxanne released in theaters 35 years ago.

Steve Martin stars as Charlie “C.D.” Bales, the fire chief of one of the most inept fire departments in the country. Into his life walks Roxanne (Daryl Hannah), far more than a pretty face, as a beautiful astronomy PhD student renting a home in the small town from C.D.’s god-daughter Dixie (Shelley Duvall) while mending a broken heart and searching the stars for a comet.

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Only Murders in the Building – Double Time

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – Double Time
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The penultimate episode of the First Season of Only Murders in the Building offers a few surprises as the podcasters face backlash from the neighbors, possible eviction, and Charles (Steve Martin) announcing plans to leave the podcast and spend time with his healing, but not surprisingly not dead, girlfriend (Amy Ryan). While they were able to solve one murder, the trio still hasn’t solved the case that brought them all together.

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Only Murders in the Building – Fan Fiction

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – Fan Fiction
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The murder is solved, the podcasters record their last episode, the police arrest Teddy Dimas (Nathan Lane) and his son (James Caverly), but what if they got it all wrong? The episode opens with Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) being frightened, threatened, but then released by the podcast’s sponsor who warns them to rule Tim Kono’s (Julian Cihi) death a suicide and move on. Instead the pair regroup with Charles (Steve Martin) to end the podcast on their own terms and catch a killer.

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Only Murders in the Building – The Boy from 6B

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – The Boy from 6B
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Without any spoken dialogue, Only Murders in the Building answers some very large questions while providing on hell of an episode. First, we discover who killed Zoe (Olivia Reis) all those years ago and who the other person was on the roof that night who Tim Kono (Julian Cihi) saw and why he never came forward. Second, against all odds, Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) confirm the podcast’s latest crazy theory about their sponsor which turns out to be true.

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Only Murders in the Building – To Protect and Serve

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – To Protect and Serve
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“To Protect and Serve” brings back Da’Vine Joy Randolph as the grumpy Detective Williams. While I’m not wild about the character, her discovery that the police department didn’t look further into the evidence of Tim Kono’s apparent suicide, and the needling from her fiancé (Alysha Deslorieux), pushes her to helping out the podcast she despises by sending them a big clue. Speaking of the podcasters, still wrapping their heads around Tim’s investigation into black market jewelry, Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Martin Short) stumble across unexpected boost to their podcast and a new suspect.

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