Twitch Upon a Star (52 page)
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Authors: Herbie J. Pilato
Daisy Daws
(Lizzie) is a psychopathic abusive nurse at a senior facility that houses
Amos Lasher
(Douglas), her main patient, and
Tommy Tanaka
(Morita), and other seniors who ultimately band against her in a battle for their very lives.
Shortly after this film was rerun in the summer of 1986, a Los Angeles viewer wrote in to the
Television Times
supplement of
The Los Angeles Times
, pining for Lizzie to return to her own “happier days” on screen and her most beloved role. Interestingly, the viewer also addressed what Lizzie later described in 1989 and during other interviews as her personal philosophy about acting. But more than anything, the writer expressed what had been on the minds of countless fans of Elizabeth's and
Bewitched
. In his letter dated August 9, 1986, home audience member Bob Thompson of Burbank, California composed his thoughts and said:
Amos
with Kirk Douglas and Elizabeth Montgomery had to be the most brilliant television movie I've seen this year. Montgomery displayed her true talent for portraying a
witch
. Her performance was incredible. However, with all the reunion movies on television lately, I would love to see a revival of
Bewitched
. All I've seen Montgomery do in the last decade is heavy drama. Enough already. Let's see some comedy. I believe it to be her forte. Isn't it harder to make people laugh than cry anyway? What I'm trying to say, I guess, is ⦠“
Samantha
, where are you?”
