Diane Freakin' Keaton: Feb 5, 2007
I liked Keaton in that movie a few years back where she played the most successful and together of three adult sisters, the other two being Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow (their father,improbably was Old Walter Matthau, dying on screen in his last role before dying in real life. Keaton quite successfully projected SUCCESS, and the centered life she's seemed to have for all these years. (Slate)
Even Odds: What? No Rocky? Jan 29, 2007
The Bad News Bears Walter Matthau is perfect in this one. He s actually a hero of mine for his performance in The Odd Couple as a sloppy sports writer, but as an alcoholic Little League coach, he s priceless. (Montana Standard, MT)
Review: Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty Jan 12, 2007
He was almost certainly hoping to create an endearingly irascible and eccentric bunch of rebels, the kind of people Walter Matthau and George Burns and Martha Raye would play in the film version if they were still alive. Instead he inspires a single, admittedly harsh thought: anyone still listening to Procol Harum in 2022, when this novel is set, is no longer welcome here. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Cary Grant - The Burden of Image Jan 7, 2007
He makes cracks about his maturity but still looks good enough for Audrey Hepburn to say, "Do you know what's wrong with you? Nothing." And he barely gets away with the fight scenes, a rooftop struggle with brutish George Kennedy - one of three thieves looking for a fortune stolen by Hepburn's murdered husband - and a good cat-and-mouse gun fight with the still undiscovered comic genius Walter Matthau. Grant still gets a mug or two in though, and revels in a scene in which he showers with his... (Suite101.com)