Word: lemmon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squad. Only coach Dave Fish missed the estravaganza. He was being a good dad, and had stayed home for his son's fifth birthday party. Says Gabrieli about the visitor: "She looked midly middle eastern, but her strong Boston accent gave her away." ...Squash players JOHN DINEEN and GEORDIE LEMMON missed the Porcellian Club initiation dinner because of the Princeton match, so they get one of their...
...Geordie Lemmon, in the number three slot, beat Midshipman Tim Ewing in a scrappy five game match. After dropping the first two games 13-16 and 12-15, Lemmon fought back under pressure to win the third game 15-8, and even the match in a fourth-game tiebreaker. In the fifth and decisive game, Lemmon destroyed Ewing...
...Lemmon should know, movies are different. What looks like a character's final tribute from a theater balcony be comes, in movie closeup, an autopsy. And Lemmon, by re-creating his stage performance, has created another, more pitiable Scottie. Lemmon still articulates a lexicon of frayed hopes through his sad-clown face, still works the crowd like an aging but adept masseur. But this Scottie is no longer a man one would care to spend an evening drinking with, or even observing. He chokes on his own gag lines; he straitjackets his son (Robby Benson) in a slapstick embrace...
...listener's laughter. As the central character, comic relief, raisonneur and raison d'être of Bernard Slade's play Tribute, Scottie kept the jokes flowing as his world collapsed like a burlesque banana's baggy pants. On Broadway, as incarnated by Jack Lemmon, Scottie was a sympathetic soul. With the footlights acting as a DMZ between character and playgoer, Scottie could be abstracted and romanticized: he was the fatally ill trouper doing one heroic final turn...
...though. Director Clark so little trusts his audience that he italicizes every dramatic revelation with lush music and encourages his players to stick to their stereotypes. Only Lee Remick shines, as Scottie's loving exwife. In the middle of the movie, Lemmon and Remick have a scene together- just a few moments, really-when they sit together, and remember, and embrace. For once the actors are not performing but behaving; not seizing the viewer's attention, simply absorbing it. For an instant, Tribute becomes what it should have been: not a talk show, but a good movie...