'A Man on the Inside,' starring Ted Danson, is sweet, serious but always funny

The 76-year-old actor leads a cast of septuagenarian stars as a retired professor who takes on a job going undercover at a retirement community.

My first memory of Ted Danson is of him dancing solo to Frank Sinatra in a pool of light on a pier in the movie 'Body Heat,' which is all I remember of 'Body Heat.' It set a tone of gracefulness that continues to inform his performances to this day, in a wide range of soft-spoken modes, from 'Cheers' to 'Bored to Death' to 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' to 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' where he appears as a version of himself.

That Charles is, at least to begin with, what Julie calls 'the best option in a sea of not very good options,' is of course the point, and the starting point. The bumbling spy is a reliable comic figure, and Charles, masking ill-conceived lies with more ridiculous ones, would seem weird to anyone taking him at face value — if it were any other face than Danson's.

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