The Goodbye Girl
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Neil Simon wrote the line, but it took Richard Dreyfuss, punctuating each word with a tugging removal of intimate undergarments hanging from a shower rod, to win an Oscar for complaining to Marsha Mason, “I don’t like the panties hanging on the rod.” This 1977 comedy is a bit unchecked in the acting department (Mason, at the time, was married to Simon), but it’s vey, very funny – and Dreyfuss, as an egotistical actor rooming with a divorced woman and her young daughter (Quinn Cummings), swings for the fences throughout, like an actor playing to the balcony.