Howard Hawks delivers a bottomless pit of laughs with his irresistable and absurd rom-com Man's Favorite Sport?, a half-acidic-half-sweet screwball mocktini that sports inflatable pants, a loose speedboat, and (I kid you not) a bear on a motorcycle. Yes. An actual bear riding a motorcycle. (Go home, Hawks. You're drunk.)
This neglected 1964 masterpiece is a speedy update of Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, one of the funniest movies ever conceived whose plot sounds like the start to one helluva joke: "So a paleontologist, a socialite, and a leopard walk into a bar...". Here, Hawks pits shrewd Paula Prentiss against hunky Rock Hudson. Hudson plays Roger Willoughby, a meek fishing salesclerk at Abercrombie & Finch. Prentiss plays Abigail Page, a right-angled, outspoken…