Word: lemmon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie, no one has yet tried to challenge it in court. The story is based upon the disappearance of a young American writer. Charlie Horman '64, who was living in Chile when the Allende government was over-thrown in 1973 Immediately following the revolution, Horman's father (Jack Lemmon '47) travels to Chile and, with Sissy Spacek, who plays Charlie Horman's wife, searches for his missing...
...intertwining themes in the movie center around the search for Charlie Horman and the relationship between the stuffy, Christian Scientists Lemmon, and the freewheeling, impertinent Spacek. A devout, almost chauvinistic patriot when he first comes to Chile, spouting idioms attesting to the greatness of the American Way, Lemmon slowly hardens to the cold reality of the American Way abroad, as he learns that the U.S. government may have been responsible for not only the revolution itself, but for his own son's death as well...
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras (Z, State of Siege) builds Missing around the arrival in Santia go of Herman's father Edmund (Jack Lemmon), who joins Horman's wife (Sissy Spacek) in a frustrating quest to find out what happened to his son (John Shea). Basing his narrative largely on Thomas Hauser's 1978 book, The Execution of Charles Horman (reissued in a new paperback as Missing), Costa-Gavras shows the pair running up against a phalanx of American diplomats who profess to be helping but who know all along that the Chilean military authorities have already murdered...
...short acceptance--speech, Cagney told the audience an anecdote about Jack Lemmon '47, a former Hasty Pudding member and winner of the Man of the Year Award in 1973, whom Cagney met in 1955 when the two were starring in "Mister Roberts...
Chip Robie, John Dinneen and Spencer Brog gave their first games as alms before rallying to 3-1 wins Lemmon typicaly embroiled himself in another tough one, dropping his first two games before rallying to take the last three against Tony Hitt, 15-6, 15-5, 15-8. And Jim Lubowitz regretfully let too much rope slip away to lose, 15-6, 15-9, 17-14. Matt Hoffman, Lubowitz's opponent, played number four for the Big Green last year before dropping to seven this year...