IN RECOGNITION OF THE DIRECTORS Part 3
The next two movies share the same similarities. Neither was made by a noted director; neither was highly regarded by movie critics; both starred the same actress; and both had good soundtracks. The first film is With Honors which was directed by Alek Keshishian, primarily known for music videos and documentaries. The second is The Cutting Edge , directed by Paul Michael Glaser who is best known for portraying Detective David Starsky in the seventy’s television series Starsky and Hutch . Alek Keshishian Like so many of the directors who were responsible for my favorite films, Keshishian was born in another country, in this case Lebanon. When he was about five, he came to the United States with his father Kevork, a pediatrician, his mother Cecile, and his younger sister Aleen who also works in show business as a talent agent and producer of music videos and documentaries. The family settled in an upper middle class Armenian community in Manchester, New Hampshire where they op...