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Wilder directed some of Lemmon's most famous movies, including Some Like it Hot, The Apartment and The Fortune Cookie. The actor-director relationship spanned almost 20 years...

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, | Title: 'Some Like It Hot': After Two Oscars. Lemmon Still Sizzles | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...American terms he's a little Clint Eastwood (actor-director), a dash of Gene Kelly (imaginative choreographer), a bit of Jim Carrey (rubbery ham) and a lot of the silent-movie clowns: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Says Chan fan Sylvester Stallone: "Jackie has elongated a genre that had grown pretty stale. He's infused films with humor and character-driven story while giving audiences these extraordinary stunts that are unparalleled anywhere in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE CAN! | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

Administrators said they are particularly exasperated because the actor-director's people had approached President Neil L. Rudenstine earlier in the summer to suggest the showing. Initially, Nathans said, "I was delighted...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Redford Cancels Screening | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Thompson was to her manners born. Her mother is actress Phyllida Law, who plays the pruney maid in Peter's Friends and Hero's attendant Ursula in Much Ado; her father was actor-director Eric Thompson; Emma's younger sister Sophie was a successful child actress. Of her parents Emma says, "The main influence is that actors are so good with children. They do not patronize them -- perhaps because they are so close to that state of childishness." Emma's parents were certainly close to her. "Anything I was interested in made them happy," she says. "I had no rebellious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emma's A Gem | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

HENRY V. Kenneth Branagh, 28, is the Olivier wanna-be of the '80s. In this version, keenly faithful to the famous 1944 film, the actor-director stakes his boldest claim yet to Lord Larry's title. The elite cast -- a veritable Burke's Peerage of British acting -- makes it a royal, enjoyable feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 20, 1989 | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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