I’m all for a documentary that celebrates its subject, but “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost” is a movie that takes what it’s about and holds it up to the light with such unbashed reverence that after half an hour or so, I thought it was all going to be a bit much. Actually, it turns out to be a very good film — canny and honest and unexpectedly moving. But it’s layered with a thick sugary frosting of adoration.
The movie is a portrait of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, the husband-and-wife comedy team who first came to prominence on “The Ed Sullivan Show” (they made their debut appearance there in 1963) and then became a popular nightclub and TV-variety-show act in the ’60s and ’70s. Stiller and Meara were quite successful, but I wouldn’t call them superstars. I used to see them on TV when I was growing up,…
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