Glatpoti
It is so daring, it is so ambitious, it is so thrilling and weird and pointed and powerful. I never knew where it was going.
Noelle
The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.
Delight
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Steve Ripple
This show was truly great. It must have been - I still think about it regularly after so many years. What I wanted to put here was a sad update on the show's inspiration - at least for it's atmosphere and location - Chez Helene in New Orleans and it's proprietor Austin Leslie. I visited New Orleans a few years after the show was canceled, and sought out the restaurant. Austin talked to me at length and told me stories about the influence his place had on the show, as well as many other stories and anecdotes, as well as advice on my visit. He was really a great host. It was first time to New Orleans and his welcome really made my trip special. So did the smothered cabbage and pig tails!(it was a creole and soul food restaurant). Years later, after Katrina, I looked him up to see how he was doing. I have a cookbook he signed for me (as well as drawing a caricature of himself inside); and I was making a recipe out of it... Sadly he died from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. He was trapped in an attic and was exposed to heat (over 120F!) and other deprivations, which weakened him, and he eventually succumbed to pneumonia. But what a cook and truly remarkable person!
woodmydarling
Hello Everyone, I recently found very decent copies of Frank's Place on DVD. If you would like to purchase a set for yourself, please do contact Todd (a very nice guy) at Professor Video.He (Todd) has all 22 episodes, and he will put them all together for you on five DVD's at the responsible price of ten (10) dollars per DVD.Expect a very fast delivery from Todd once he receives your payment. I'm currently enjoying my Frank's Place DVD's.So Sport Fan's , you now have it (the Frank's Place info). Do write to Todd at
[email protected], and you too will soon no longer "know what it means to miss New Orleans." I hope that this did help all of those Frank's Place fanatics, like myself.Sincerely, Robert.
skj-19
In the first episode, in the first scene in the diner, a Jimmy Rushing record was playing on the jukebox. I had two reactions: 1. They made this show just for me! 2. It's doomed. Sure enough, the programming geniuses at CBS White Shadowed it. For those unfamiliar with the term, the verb "to White Shadow", from the series of that name, means to repeatedly preempt a show for cartoon "specials" and move it all over the schedule so people who want to see it can't find it, then cancel it because not enough people are watching. As others have commented, this was one of the best TV series ever made. The writing was superb, the acting wonderful, and the music a delight. It can't be available on DVD soon enough.
CheerfulLeigh
I saw this show the first year I had moved away from New Orleans. I moved back to FL to be with my family, but it sure looked like N. O. had followed me. The pilot had a scene of Frank's first night there, after living in Chicago (I believe). What he finds crawling up his bedclothes made me yell with recognition, and I will never forget his reaction. This was such an accurate show - that's why I remember it so well. The writers REALLY knew The City, and I should know - I lived there for 10 years, and went through much of what Frank had to learn. My favorite episode was when the young man who worked for Frank got in with the wrong crowd, then tried to get back out. I have been a "vidiot" for 50 years, and I can say absolutely that that one TV episode made me cry so hard I had to get a bath towel to try to recover. I have never, ever, been so moved by what I saw, and I saw the last episode of M.A.S.H., the last Johnny Carson Show, and many All In The Family episodes that were every bit as dramatic as they were usually hilarious. I cannot recommend it enough. Period.
