Gareth Higgins on STEVE MARTIN
The writer Adam Gopnik says of Steve Martin that he’s changed more than any person he knows. Steve! (Martin): A documentary in 2 pieces does a pretty marvelous job of illustrating that change - from wild and crazy guy to movie star to thoughtful novelist, art collector, and - what he names as the happiest part of his life - fatherhood in his late sixties. What’s striking for Martin isn’t just the naming of that period as happiest, but the fact that he found happiness at all. A delicious, substantial surprise; a change in the right direction.
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