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...Sunshine Boys, won him an Academy Award, and that brought him the part of the Title Character in Oh, God! in 1978. His newest movie, Just You and Me, Kid, places him opposite Brooke Shields, 14. Last week he was on location in Manhattan, where he, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg were playing senescent bank robbers in Going in Style. This fall he will be the deity once again...
...first bench sitter once worked with a woman named Gracie, the last one with a man named Jackie, and the middle one with Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando. Today, Actors George Burns and Art Carney and Actors Studio Patriarch Lee Strasberg are teamed for Going in Style, now filming in New York City. "It's about three old guys living together on Social Security," explains Burns, who at 83 is the oldest of the trio. "I asked Lee how old he was. He told me 77, so I asked him to get me a glass of water." Burns cracks...
...setting for a musical, but My Old Friends manages to sandwich a wedge of pathos between large slices of jollity. The characters encountered at the Gold en Days, a retirement hotel, are spunky individualists eager to savor the last drops of life. True, there is a lady (Grace Carney) who stays glued to the TV set, but that gives her life the dimension of constant fantasy. True, there is someone who dies (offstage), a tie salesman (Robert Weil), but only after he achieves his desire to leave something behind by completing a bench in the craft shop...
...film adaptation of Neil Simon's funniest and most endearing play that isn't too funny and not very endearing. Matthau is a good Oscar--he can play these roles in his rumpled sleep, but Jack Lemmon "acts" too much, and his whine has none of Randall's or Carney's dingy charm...
...musical features Scott as a producer with a month left to live. As his doctor (Art Carney) tells him, his inexplicable illness is one that seems only to afflict show people. Scott's last show must be a hit in order for him to leave a proper inheritance to the daughter he has never seen as a grownup. She, of course, turns out to be the chorus girl who saves the show by secretly advancing him money and then going on when the temper amental star (Van Devere) incapacitates herself. The juvenile she falls in love with...