Role reversal Jun 18, 2005
The original movie saw Matthau reprise his role as Oscar but this time he was paired with Jack Lemmon as Felix. This mix would prove to be a winner, as the two would portray Oscar, and Felix again in The Odd Couple II (not to mention two installments of the very funny Grumpy Old Men and Out to Sea). (The Oracle, FL)
The HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival Kicks Off the 13th Season with 'The Way We Were' Jun 18, 2005
Aug. 8 -- THE ODD COUPLE (Paramount) Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau (before they were grumpy old men) are the mismatched roomies in this endearingly funny adaptation of Neil Simon's stage hit. After his wife walks out, Felix (the fussy one) moves in with friend Oscar (the slobby one). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Big man back on campus Jun 9, 2005
"As an overseer from 1989 to 1995, Lithgow founded Harvard's annual Arts First festival, whose parade he usually leads as grand marshal, and established an annual alumni arts medal whose recipients include Jack Lemmon and Yo-Yo Ma.''John is one of the least needy people I've met, despite the fact that he's an actor," says Myra Mayman, retired director of Harvard's Office for the Arts. He loves his ego, but he's not needy. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Obituary: Anne Bancroft Jun 8, 2005
Two years later she starred in the Neil Simon comedy, The Prisoner of Second Avenue - a welcome return to comedy where she was perfectly cast opposite the frenetic Jack Lemmon. Her seesaw career took a downturn with the dull The Hindenburg (1975), in which she played a Countess, and hit rock bottom with the garish revenge thriller Lipstick (1976). (Guardian Unlimited)
Graduate star Anne Bancroft dies Jun 8, 2005
She continued to garner acclaim in the 1970s in films such as Richard Attenborough's Young Winston and The Prisoner of Second Avenue, with Jack Lemmon. In the 1980s, she starred opposite her husband Mel Brooks in To Be or Not to Be, played Anthony Hopkins' pen pal in 84 Charing Cross Road and garnered acclaim in Garbo Talks and Night, Mother. (BBC News -- Americas)
Musicians show humor, too Talented local entertainers raise $1,600 for spotlight Jun 7, 2005
Sickora and Popson had music lovers in stitches when, while dressed as women, they combined to sing The Beauty That Drives Men Mad from the oldtime movie Some Like It Hot starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. Sickora and Popson reprised the roles of Lemmon and Curtis perfectly with their blonde wigs, colorful dresses, stoles, high heels and prissy movements on stage. (Shamokin News Item, PA)
Not So Star-Struck Jun 5, 2005
Meanwhile, straight-arrow Damon gets grouped with those who do us proud -- names that in the old days would have included Bette Davis, Jack Lemmon, Leonard Bernstein, and Ruth Gordon, and these days might run from Errol Morris to Aerosmith. The list of all the famous people our area lays claim to goes on and on, but it would hardly be a revelation to trot out names like Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, Donna Summer, Michael Chiklis, Kate Bosworth, Yo-Yo Ma, Jonathan... (Boston Globe)
Guy and doll May 27, 2005
Eileen is the cute would-be actress who draws all the male attention (notably from Bob Fosse as a soda jerk and Tommy Rall as a reporter), while Ruth, the would-be writer who feels very much in Eileen's shadow, has a wary relationship with a magazine editor (Jack Lemmon). The source material, stories by Ruth McKenney for The New Yorker, has fed any number of spinoffs -- a non-musical play and movie, the Broadway musical Wonderful Town, a 1960-61 TV series -- but My Sister Eileen is the pick of... (Globe and Mail -- EntertainmentTP)
YT reviewer's picks May 27, 2005
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
The Blog Squad May 27, 2005
Favorite songwriters: Difford and Tillbrook, Neil Finn, Stevie Wonder, Patti Griffin, Smokey Robinson, Shawn Colvin Famous people I'm sorry I never met: Gregory Hines, Jack Lemmon, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Barbara Stanwyck, River Phoenix, Thurgood Marshall Famous person I'm most thrilled to have met: Sidney Poitier Famous people I've named cats after: John Cusack and D.B. Sweeney Places I can be regularly found: Muvico Parisian, the Gap store at Cityplace, Sushi Jo, O'Shea's, church, napping on my... (The Palm Beach Post)
• VIDEO PREVIEW: Films take viewers into past, present and around the world May 10, 2005
TV transfers: Double Oscar-winners Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey star in a 1987 adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (Image), while fellow Oscar-winner James Coburn plays a dashing Dashiell Hammett detective in the 1978 miniseries "The Dain Curse" (also from Image). And brothers caught up in Rwandan genocide -- one an army officer, the other an extremist broadcaster -- inspire the drama "Sometimes in April" (HBO). (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
'Tuesdays' premiers at Heartland Theatre May 7, 2005
In 1999, Oprah Winfrey turned it into a made-for-television movie starring Hank Azaria and the late Jack Lemmon, which won four Emmy awards. And tonight "Tuesdays with Morrie" will open as a stage play at the American Heartland Theatre in Crown Center, where it will run until June 26. (Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, KS)
Hollywood's Mindless Love Affair With Castro Apr 20, 2005
The actor Jack Lemmon was praised by the Castro government at his death for being "a friend of Cuba." America-bashing filmmaker Oliver Stone was treated like royalty by the dictator during a visit to Havana. Danny Glover travels there quite a bit, as do Ed Asner, Harry Belafonte, Gina Lollobrigida and others. (Human Events Online)
What's new in entertainment Apr 15, 2005
Starring Edward Furlong, Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Released by Warner Home Video. (Fresno Bee)
From wild outfits to colorful personalities, the nine pros I'd most like to golf with. Apr 14, 2005
Maybe Jacobsen learned his comedic skills from the late actor Jack Lemmon, his playing partner for 16 years at the ATle Beach Pro-Am. AP. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Small screen, big ideas Mar 31, 2005
Cue Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin and Jack Lemmon pleading, screaming and conning their customers to "sign on the line, which is dotted," while robotic supervisor Kevin Spacey reminds his charges that failure equals starvation. Quotable quote: "I'll tell you what the hard part is: starting up, standing up, breaking free of this bullshit, this enslavement to some guy because he's got the upper hand.". (Globe and Mail -- EntertainmentTP)
This Harvard Tradition Is No Drag Mar 27, 2005
But eventually they get it, joining a long line of Pudding men that has included former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, actor Jack Lemmon, and at least one journalist ABC News correspondent John Berman. Hasty Pudding, which is bringing its show on the road, including a performance in New York City this weekend, is a tradition that's anything but a drag. (ABC News - Top Stories)
Rhames is no sucker Mar 22, 2005
Starring in 1994's "Pulp Fiction" brought him fame; the 1997 TV movie "Don King: Only in America" brought him a Golden Globe award, which he promptly said Jack Lemmon should have won and preceded to hand it to him. (The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which doles out the Golden Globes, later gave Rhames a duplicate award. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Spacey: Becoming Bobby Darin Feb 16, 2005
" Kevin Spacey Fowler was born in New Jersey, the youngest of three children. He attended high school in Southern California, performed in school plays, and honed his talent as an impersonator. He loved doing movie stars like Jack Lemmon and Jimmy Stewart. After a brief stint in college, Spacey dropped Fowler from his name and moved to New York City, to study drama for two years at the Juilliard School where he was remembered as talented, and a troublemaker. "I just think I got a huge ego ...... (CBS News -- 60 minutes II)
Video/DVD releases Feb 15, 2005
Co-star Jack Lemmon won the first of his Oscars for his work in the film. Directed by John Ford. (STLtoday - Entertainment)
Ask George Thomas your movie questions Jul 29, 2004
As for Jack Lemmon, I don't know how you do NOT consider him one of the all-time greats. I was a fan of his from the very minute I laid eyes on him in The Days of Wine and Roses when it aired on Atlanta's WTBS Academy Award Theater on Sunday mornings during the late '70s. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
This is London Apr 27, 2004
Sizzle: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Classic Hollywood couple Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn were the best screen pairing, according to a study of movie chemistry. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
Hepburn and Tracy 'best lovers' Apr 27, 2004
"It can be a physical thing like that of two lovers or a humour-based friendship, such as Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau where you just know, as a viewer, that the two of them are great mates in real life too," he added. Which film duo do you think had the best on-screen chemistry. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
Why screen chemistry is no act Apr 27, 2004
After them came Redford and Newman; Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; Bogart and Ingrid Bergman; Laurel and Hardy, and Flynn and de Havilland. Why screen chemistry is no act. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
Film couples whose sparkle put their rivals in the shade Apr 27, 2004
3 Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (The Big Sleep, Key Largo) 4 Mel Gibson and Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon series) 5 Robert Redford and Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting) 6 Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple, The Front Page) 7 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Flying Down to Rio 8 Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) 9 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (Sons of the Desert, Babes in Toyland) 10 Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Captain Blood, The... (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
Snatch of the day for ITV as Parkinson defects Apr 27, 2004
Early guests included David Niven, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Muhammad Ali, James Stewart, John Wayne, Gene Kelly, Jack Lemmon, Bette Davis and James Cagney. Billy Connolly was also often on the show, anarchic in spirit but ultimately more restrained than Rod Hull and Emu, who wrestled their shoeless host to the floor. (Google News Australia -- Entertainment)
The unusual suspect Apr 25, 2004
He also struck up mentor relationships with Jack Lemmon and Katharine Hepburn, who came to see Spacey and Lemmon perform in Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey into Night in 1986. From then on they had a lopsided friendship, in which Spacey wrote long rambling letters detailing his progress from Broadway to his two acting Oscars for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
Spacey: the face in the crowd Apr 25, 2004
But he worked his way up the ranks of American theatre and was first brought to Britain by the impresario Duncan Weldon in 1986 to play a supporting role to his idol and future mentor, Jack Lemmon, in Long Day's Journey Into Night. Weldon said: 'In Long Day's Journey he was a totally unknown actor. (Google News UK -- News)
Aren't they fabulous ... Apr 19, 2004
If you think you saw this movie before, and that it was called "Some Like it Hot,"you're wrong; Vardalos and Toni Collette (as Carla) are much more attractive as cross-dressing men than Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis were as women. This, of course, was my problem with the movie. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
Style with substance Apr 18, 2004
In the first film she also fell foul of the normally amiable Jack Lemmon, who found her affectedly standoffish, and compared her unfavourably to Garbo. Deneuve, who calls herself a late-developing adolescent, rejects the charge that she is cold: "I am a reserved woman but not a cold woman. People who really know me know that. I am, alas - and I mean alas - a woman with a heart.". (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
San Diego Union Tribune Apr 16, 2004
Neither approaches the comic level of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Wilder's 1959 film, and there is no Monroe glow, but writer Vardalos can sure keep a rhythm going. MOVIE REVIEW. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS: Vardalos lets loose again in drag queen comedy Apr 16, 2004
In "Some Like It Hot," Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, having witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, try to elude their pursuers by donning dresses and joining up with a traveling all-girl orchestra. This being a new millennium, Connie and Carla need only head to Hollywood, where they wander into a drag bar at the same time the main attraction is defecting. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
'Connie and Carla' should be 'Some Like It Tepid' Apr 16, 2004
The setup is straight out of "Some Like It Hot," the 1959 Billy Wilder comedy with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a pair of musicians disguised as female members of a swing band hiding out from the mob. Here, Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Collette) are a pair of wannabe stars and longtime friends hoping their hopelessly corny act at a Chicago airport lounge will lead to the bright lights of Broadway. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
'Connie and Carla': Some like it cold Apr 16, 2004
One of the running gags in "Some Like It Hot" was that Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis did not make very plausible women, but the movie handled that by surrounding them with dim bulbs like the characters played by Marilyn Monroe and Joe E. Brown ... I think maybe the point in "Some Like It Hot" was that Joe E. Brown fell in love with Jack Lemmon, not Marilyn Monroe. (The Standard-Times, MA)
Connie and Carla Apr 16, 2004
STLtoday - Entertainment - Movies. ENTERTAINMENT SUBSECTIONS. (STLtoday - Entertainment)
" Connie and Carla " Apr 15, 2004
(If this all sounds vaguely familiar, it is - Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon did it best in "Some Like It Hot."). Complications arise, as they always do, when Connie falls for Jeff (David Duchovny), the younger brother of club bartender and drag queen Robert (the wonderful Stephen Spinella, a Tony winner for "Angels in America"). (Google News Canada -- Entertainment)
New: 'The Matrix Revolutions' Apr 14, 2004
Bosworth lacks warmth, but Duhamel is charming and Grace may turn out to be his generation's Jack Lemmon ... Co-star Jack Lemmon won the first of his Oscars for his work in the film. (STLtoday - Entertainment)
A Little Duke Musical Mar 8, 2004
WednesdayApril 14, 2004. Zannie Voss, producing director. (The Duke University Chronicle, NC)
Playbill.com Feb 14, 2004
Scenes From the Big Picture playwright Owen McCafferty has been commissioned to write a new version of J. P. Miller?s Days of Wine and Roses (most famous as the 1962 film starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick). Ed Hall will direct a London revival of Howard Brenton and David Hare?s satire on the newspaper industry, Pravda. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
How the world warmed to the Globes Jan 16, 2004
In previous years Jack Nicholson mooned the audience, Ren;e Zellweger was in the ladies' room when she should have been picking up her Golden Globe and Ving Rhames insisted on passing his trophy on to Jack Lemmon because, he said, he was more deserving of it. The star turnout far surpasses that for the Oscars, partly because of its reputation as a zany, let-your-hair-down evening and partly because the Globes ceremony hands out more awards there are separate categories for best drama and best... (Telegraph.co.uk, UK)
UW professor remembers Uta Hagen Jan 15, 2004
Tony Awards recognized Hagen's work in Clifford Odet's "The Country Girl" and Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" In 1947 she began teaching at the Herbert Berghof acting studio, where Jack Lemmon, Jason Robards, Mathew Broderick, Geraldine Page, Fritz Weaver, Whoopi Goldberg and many others perfected their craft. (View a full news release version of this story) (University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications, WI)
It Should Happen to You Jan 14, 2004
...- Jack Lemmon, Judy Holliday. Stars: Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon, Michael O'Shea, Vaughn Taylor, Connie GilchristOther Stars: Constance Bennett, Ilka Chase, Wendy Barrie, Melville CooperDirector: George Cukor (digitallyOBSESSED, IL)
A Tribute to George C. Scott Jan 14, 2004
He won an Emmy in 1997 for his role in the cable TV remake of "12 Angry Men" (screenplay rewritten and contemporized by the original screenwriter), in a cast which included stars like Jack Lemmon, Ossie Davis, and Hume Cronyn. His last performance was in another TV remake, this time "Inherit the Wind," in which he and Lemmon did a creditable job of re-working the famed 1960 Spencer Tracy/Fredric March performances (classicfilm.about.com, United States)
DVD offers perfect 'Cure' for jaded thriller fans Jan 13, 2004
96), with Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon and Peter Lawford. Next week, Universal Studios Home Video performs repackaging magic with a quartet of DVD sets in "The Franchise Collection": American Graffiti Drive-In Double Feature contains George Lucas' original along with the 1979 sequel, More American Graffiti; Conan: The Complete Set couples the Arnold Schwarzenegger duo Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer; Slap Shot 2-Movie Fan Pack yokes the 1977 Paul Newman original with 2002's... (Washington Times, DC)
Keeping an eye on things in the 'Kitchen' Jan 11, 2004
Played by actor Tomas Norstrom (looking like Jack Lemmon in a suit, sweater vest, and fedora), he's part of a team of bland-faced "observers" who set up camp in rural nowheresville Norway to track the way single men use their kitchens. The goal of the study is to figure out how to design and sell kitchen equipment, but what it demands is that the observers sit, silently, in the kitchens of the volunteers for weeks on end (Boston Globe, MA)
The Del of the century Jan 10, 2004
It was the backdrop for the cinematic frolic of cross-dressing Jack Lemmon and TonyCurtis and glamorous Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot." And it harbors ... (Redlands Daily Facts, CA)
Vampire flick 'Underworld' lacks bite Jan 10, 2004
...put it to a vote and let consumers pick five films from the studio's vaults that had yet to be released on DVD. Leading the way is Blake Edwards' 1962 drama "Days of Wine and Roses," starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick as a couple tumbling into alcoholism. Lana Turner and John Garfield star in the original 1946 version "The Postman Always Rings Twice," adapted from James M. Cain's thriller about murder and betrayal (Visalia Times-Delta, CA)
Film-buff heaven: DVDs of many classic movies are being released ... Jan 8, 2004
In the spirit of such great film noirs as "Double Indemnity" (1944) and "Out of the Past" (1947), "Postman" is as gripping as ever and far surpasses the later remake with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon star in 1962's "The Days of Wine and Roses." (Deseret News, UT)
Producers' Lane and Broderick Offered Roles in Odd Couple Revival Jan 7, 2004
Matthau then repeated his role on film opposite the Felix of Jack Lemmon. The long-running TV version of Simon's work featured Jack Klugman (Oscar) and Tony Randall (Felix) (Playbill.com, NY)
DVD resurrects Bogie's 1951 thriller 'Enforcer' Jan 7, 2004
Warner Home Video counters with its own quartet: Blake Edwards' bleak but grippingly acted 1962 drama Days of Wine and Roses, with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick as an alcoholic couple; John Garfield and Lana Turner in the steamy 1946 noir The Postman Always Rings Twice; the 1960 collegiate beach romp Where the Boys Are, starring Connie Francis and the ever-suave George Hamilton; and John Milius' grandiose (if highly fictionalized) 1975 historical adventure The Wind and the Lion, starring Sean... (Washington Times, DC)
VIDEO PREVIEW: Legends in Their Own Time Jan 6, 2004
And while you may be familiar with the steamy teaming of Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange in the 1981 remake, the original "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) boasts an even more potent twosome in John Garfield and Lana Turner as murderous lovers. Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick, meanwhile, share "The Days of Wine and Roses" in director Blake Edwards' 1962 bittersweet portrait of husband-and-wife alcoholics (Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV)
In-laws prove incompatible with Sir Cliff Dec 28, 2003
Example: during the showing of the film Some Like It Hot, apropos of nothing as far as I could tell, my mother in-law asks, "How old do you think Des O'Connor is?" Mid to late 60s was my guess, while others bid as high as 75; and so the sublime comic skills of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon flicker away unnoticed in the corner, while the conversation meanders drunkenly into various O'Connor-related areas. In the same way, no doubt, that lime juice cordial is the British Jack Daniels (Guardian, UK)
Visions for Tomorrow Dec 28, 2003
The keys to its recovery were the hiring of Bruce Simpson 18 months ago as artistic director coupled with a fiscal discipline shaped initially by acting CEO K. Shaver and more recently by her successor, Jack Lemmon. " Dealing directly with the money side now is Lemmon, halfway through his first season with the company after coming from Ballet Idaho in Boise. "The key for us is 'Nutcracker,'" Lemmon said of the company's bottom line. "We're already looking at marketing stuff for next year's... (Louisville Courier Journal, KY)
Pioneer, pariah Modell nears end Dec 25, 2003
Jacksonville Jaguars. He's always been quick with the one-liners, befitting a man whose showbiz pals included the late Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Milton Berle (USA Today)
Phantom of the Opera Dec 23, 2003
Cute Cavalcade of Classic Christmas Cartoons (1933-1959) - Whirlwind Media offers a 90-minute collection of sound cartoons with a Christmas theme on DVD. Eleven cartoons are included: Shanty where Santy Claus Lives (1933), Jack Frost (1934), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Christmas Comes But Once A Year (1936), Christmas Night (1938), Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1941), Hector's Hectic Life (1948), Snow Foolin' (1949), Gift Wrapped (1952), Santa's Surprise (1957), and Nobozodhee (Russian... (The Digital Bits Review)
Wakula spring: Strange and mysterious Dec 22, 2003
The movie "Airport 77" (headlined by Jack Lemmon) was filmed in 1976. The spring and river are home to and play host to an abundance of wildlife, including alligators, turtles and birds (Sun Star, Philippines)
Dying Is Easy. Comedy Is Hard. Dec 21, 2003
Characters in comedies may be even worse off than those in other genresthere's nothing funny to Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, for instance, about having to put on dresses, because if they don't, the Mob is sure to pump them full of lead; and Bill Murray in Groundhog Day is pretty much in agony for the entire run of the story. How to find the humor in the misfortunes of others while making it palatable, even enjoyable, for spectators, is the heavy lifting of being a comedy writer (digitallyOBSESSED, IL)
Hollywood Heavies Vie for Oscar Gold Dec 18, 2003
Among those bigwigs getting buzz are Jeff Bridges ( Seabiscuit ), Tom Cruise ( The Last Samurai ), Peter Jackson ( Lord of the Rings: Return of the King ), Bill Murray ( Lost in Translation ), Sean Penn (Mystic River, 21 Grams ) and Albert Finney ( Big Fish ). And Peter Jackson (search), who created perhaps the most highly-acclaimed trilogy in history, has yet to walk away with the ultimate prize (FOX News)
Director Blake Edwards to receive honorary Academy Award Dec 15, 2003
Other credits include the 1962 Jack Lemmon alcoholism drama ``Days of Wine and Roses,'' and the acerbic 1981 Hollywood satire ``S.O.B.,'' in which his wife, actress Julie Andrews, skewered her wholesome ``Mary Poppins'' image by baring her breasts. Michael Jackson formally charged with serious child molestation (Utusan Malaysia Online, Malaysia)
'Wonderful Town' is back at last - and grand Dec 14, 2003
Hugh Jackman draws crowds to 'Oz. When Columbia Pictures honcho Harry Cohn, who owned the film rights to the story, refused to pay Bernstein, Comden and Green their price for the song score, Cohn commissioned a new one for his 1955 remake of "My Sister Eileen" with Betty Garrett, Janet Leigh and new kids Jack Lemmon and Bob Fosse (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA)
Share some wide-eyed TV and movie magic Dec 13, 2003
With another 43 minutes of footage added to his three-hour epic, director Peter Jackson fleshes out the middle portion of his monumental adaptation of Tolkien's tale of good versus evil. Johnny Depp, buried under kerchief, blousy shirt and the makeup of a heavy-metal fashion victim, plays loveable rogue Jack Sparrow, a high-seas con man with a heart of tarnished stolen gold (Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA)
'Roberts' on rough waters Dec 13, 2003
Jackson named to head HUD as Martinez makes Senate bid. Director Jack Marshall gets high marks for reviving this touching comedy, which was a gigantic Broadway hit in 1948 (adapted and directed by the legendary theater impresario Josh Logan) before going on to become an even bigger movie in 1955 starring Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney and William Powell (Washington Times, DC)
Video Rewind: Standing by your story: Great movies about great ... Dec 11, 2003
In 1974, Walter Mathau and Jack Lemmon returned to the original format and title, adding curse words and Carol Burnett. In 1988, the venue changed to a television station and the title changed to "Switching Channels," and Hildy became a woman again, this time played by Kathleen Turner, opposite Burt Reynolds (Naples Daily News, FL)
Richard Benjamin Expected to Helm Ludwig's Comedy, Leading Ladies ... Dec 11, 2003
The roles are "Sort of like Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, which should give a pretty good hint about what happens in the play: The two English nephews turn out to be nieces. [They] have to go into the town in drag, wearing Cleopatra and Titania costumes from an old production. This convention hasn't been done on stage in a straight play since, literally, Charley's Aunt at least that I know of, and I'm an addicted reader of stage comedies. And it just seemed to me that after a hundred and... (Playbill.com, NY)
'Christmas Story' took 15 years to come to life Dec 7, 2003
Two studio films - 1979's "Murder by Decree," with Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes, and 1982's "Tribute," with Jack Lemmon - followed. After each of his films, Clark said during a telephone interview, he would try to get studios to let him make something called "A Christmas Story." (The Tallahassee Democrat)
