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Title: Off Course
Review: I watched this program on HBO. While there were some funny moments, I felt director John Landis lost the documentary's focus. The program became less a tribute to Don Rickles and his impact on comedy and more a history of Las Vegas and a tribute to the way gangsters ran the city.I also thought there were some glaring omissions in the choice of film clips that were shown: There was no footage from the special, expanded segment of Mr. Rickles' appearance on "The Dean Martin Show," in which a star-studded audience was assembled for him to insult; there were no clips from "CPO Sharkey," the only TV series Don Rickles starred in that made it to a 2nd season; and there was no clip of the famous segment from "The Tonight Show" in which Mr. Rickles walked onto the program while Johnny Carson was in a Japanese bath.
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