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Meet Wally Sparks is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Peter Baldwin, written by Harry Basil and Rodney Dangerfield. It stars Dangerfield in the title role, with Debi Mazar, Michael Weatherly, Cindy Williams, Alan Rachins, Burt Reynolds and David Ogden Stiers costarring. Plot Wally Sparks is the host of a sleazy tabloid-style TV talk show who makes Jerry Springer seem gentle by comparison. His show has become so foul that he has alienated his not-especially-discriminating viewers, and his ratings are taking a nosedive. Lenny Spencer, head of the network carrying his show, gives Wally an ultimatum—he has a week to clean up the content and boost his ratings, or his show gets cancelled. Wally's producer, Sandy Gallo, comes up with an idea—Floyd Preston is the governor of Georgia and a staunch conservative known for his attacks on the lowbrow content of Wally's show, so what better way to demonstrate that Wally is trying to change his ways than to have Preston on the show as a guest? In order to persuade Preston to appear, Wally accepts an invitation to a reception at the Governor's Mansion, later learning that the Governor's young son is the fan who sent him the invitation. Wally makes the mistake of participating in a drunken game of strip poker with Preston's wife, Emily, while somehow involving himself in a plot to blackmail the Governor. Further complications ensue when Wally's son, Dean, begins a romantic relationship with the Governor's daughter. Cast Main cast Acting cameos Cameos as themselves Release Box office Meet Wally Sparks opened in 1,552 venues on January 31, 1997 and ranked number 13 in the domestic box office in its opening weekend, earning $2,131,001. At the end of its run, the film grossed $4,073,582. Critical reception The film received largely negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that only 13% from 16 reviews gave the film a positive review. References External links Meet Wally Sparks at IMDb Meet Wally Sparks at Box Office Mojo Meet Wally Sparks at Rotten Tomatoes . Discover the Barry Rachin popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Barry Rachin books.
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A Key to Paradise
Barry RachinGrace Paulson’s train wreck of a personal life takes a turn for the better when the elementary school teacher meets a gifted artisan whose handmade jewelry boxes are featured at th...
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Narcissus and Goldberg
Barry RachinBeatrice Goldberg doesn't much like Hispanics, biker broads, Franciscan monks, skinheads, or even saltoftheearth blue collar types, but she is going to get a double dose of all of ...
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Two Zen Monks
Barry RachinSarah is travelling to rural Maine to visit an old friend, Midge Parker, who disappeared under peculiar circumstances almost a decade earlier. She drives 400 miles only to discover...
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A Trip to Tanglewood
Barry RachinMarie Augustin, an Haitian nurses aide, is blindsided when one of her elderly clients, Peter Marsoubian, asks her to accompany him on a trip to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra p...
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The Sympathetic Squirrel
Barry RachinWhile eating lunch on a park bench, Leslie Carter watches a man recounts his life story to a gray squirrel. The rodent is a sympathetic listener, and there is more than a sliver of...
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Contemporary Short Stories
Barry RachinPearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England fer...
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Synchronicity
Barry RachinGabe and Marie share a mutual disgust for the lightskinned Negro who never cleans up after her Great Dane at the Oak Knoll bird Sanctuary. For the lonely widower and lesbian thespi...
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Epistemology
Barry RachinWhen Ronda Wickford, the assistant manager of Brandenburg’s ShopRite Supermarket, inadvertently hires a middleage man with a PhD in philosophy to run the fresh produce department, ...
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Emergence
Barry RachinNadia Rasmussen, the reference librarian at Brandenberg Public Library, is discovering that true love can be found at the Hoxie Feed and Grange just as easily as at a cheesy dating...
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A Key to Paradise
Barry RachinGrace Paulson's train wreck of a personal life takes a turn for the better when the elementary school teacher meets a gifted artisan whose handmade jewelry boxes are featured at th...
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The Reticent Storyteller
Barry RachinParker Salisbury is dating a girl with the social graces of a cigar store Indian. So why is he giving Lilly an engagement ring later this evening?
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Kindred Spirits
Barry RachinDora's face, an aesthetic work in progress, exudes an unfinished blankness as though God had become distracted and wandered away from the wet canvas before completing a meager han...
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Synchronicity
Barry RachinGabe and Marie share a mutual disgust for the lightskinned Negro who never cleans up after her Great Dane at the Oak Knoll bird Sanctuary. For the lonely widower and lesbian thespi...
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The Unemployed Minimalist
Barry RachinThe Hindu mystic, Krishnamurti said it was no measure of health to be adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Stumbling across this sobering truth, Ned Ogilvie has decided to drop o...
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A Dutiful Wife
Barry RachinIn her late sixties, Granny Baxter just stumbled across the love of her life. Problem is, Bernie Mangerelli, who sold lingerie and woman's underwear for the better part of forty ye...
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Guide for the Perplexed
Barry RachinErnie Levinson wants to marry Shifrah Fienberg, but the Israeli woman, whose background prior to coming to work at Levinsons Whole Food Market remains an impenetrable mystery, feel...
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A Work in Progress
Barry RachinTawana Saunders is writing the great American novel. Problem is, six months into the project, she’s only got a rough draft plus three lousy paragraphs.
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Damaged Goods
Barry RachinTwentyeight yearold Jesse Caldwell is painfully shy, lives at home and hates his moronic life. Miranda Huffington suffers from a gimpy leg and equally stunted personality. This is ...
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The Willy-nilly Hedonist
Barry RachinBenjamin Brannigan just discovered that his fiancée, Angela, has been cheating on him since before the engagement. He went to visit his grandmother seeking moral support, but she's...
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Twin Souls
Barry RachinMavis Calhoun, who works the cash register at the Shop Rite Supermarket, is going to teach Harry Wong Smith the fine points of Rumi’s mystical poetry and common decency.
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Curbstone Justice
Barry RachinWally Whitcomb, the town bully, just got hogtied, tarred, feathered and beaten half to death, and sixtyeight yearold Eunice Crabby, who sits behind the reference desk at the Brande...
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Leaky Pipes
Barry RachinBartholomew Schroeder, a recent widower and retired plumber, can sweat pipes and fix broken toilets. But on a weekend excursion to Martha's Vineyard, can he mend a teenage gir...
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Collected Short Stories volume I
Barry Rachin Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England f...
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Leaky Pipes
Barry RachinBartholomew Schroeder, a recent widower and retired plumber, can sweat pipes and fix broken toilets, but, on a weekend excursion to Martha's Vineyard, can he mend a teenage girl's ...
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Kindred Spirits
Barry RachinDora's face, an aesthetic work in progress, exudes an unfinished blankness as though God had become distracted and wandered away from the wet canvas before completing a meager han...
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Call of the Beguiled
Barry RachinCheryl Oliphant doesn't do well in social situations. The fourteen year old girl's best friend, Nicolena, is a fourfoot, South American tree boa and her parents are getting divorce...
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Two Zen Monks
Barry RachinSarah is travelling to rural Maine to visit an old friend, Midge Parker, who disappeared under peculiar circumstances almost a decade earlier. She drives 400 miles only to discover...
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A Guide for the Perplexed
Barry RachinIn the rear of Levinson's Wholefood Market, the owner's son, Ernie, just told Shifrah Fienberg that he wants to marry. The emotionally irascible Israeli would have preferred a firs...
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The Third Fairy Tale
Barry RachinSixteenyearold Ned Scoletti is travelling north on a Greyhound bus from Fort Pierce, Florida to Spaulding, Massachusetts, to visit Aunt Josie. Problem is, his mother’s identical tw...
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Still Virgin
Barry RachinA year out of high school, Clarissa, who couldn't even score a date for the senior prom, is into tantric sex, Pablo Neruda and orgasms bordering on divine rapture. And she's still ...
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Hummus
Barry RachinSeventeenyearold Sonny Gossage is infatuated with Naomi Shamir, the Israeli woman who lives down the street. He wants romance; all she can offer is a plate of hummus and an occaisi...
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The Wedding Face
Barry RachinMiriam Jacobs’ parents found their daughter’s future husband on a threebyfive index card in a Jewish marriage broker’s Rolodex file. Forty years later, Miriam wishes they had chose...
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Damaged Goods
Barry RachinTwentyeight yearold Jesse Caldwell is painfully shy, lives at home and hates his moronic life. Miranda Huffington suffers from a gimpy leg and equally stunted personality. This is ...
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Twin Souls
Barry RachinMavis Calhoun, who works the cash register at the Shop Rite Supermarket, is going to teach Harry Wong Smith the fine points of Rumi's mystical poetry along with a lesson in co...
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Two Pockets
Barry RachinAccording to Hasidic tradition, everyone must have two pockets, so they can reach into the one or the other, according to need. In the right pocket are to be the words: ‘For my sak...
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The Moribund Moose
Barry RachinRuth Ostrowski’s midlife crisis hadn’t arrived in the normally prescribed manner. Rather, it snuck up on her incrementally, one negligible tribulation after another; it bushwhacked...
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Fun with Dick and Jane
Barry RachinDick wants fun. He has no dog. He has no cat. No Spot. No Puff. But he has a plan. See Dick board the plane. See Dick fly away. Far, far away. Hello happiness! Goodbye Jane
