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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wise idea. Husband Harvey (Jack Lemmon) is himself contemplating the last available mid-life crisis, the one that happens when you can no longer hide the fact that mid-life is actually disappearing and you are about to be irrevocably old. He is aquiver with outrage over this unseemly development. Harvey has other specific worries: he is impotent; he is a hypochondriac; he is self-pitying because as an architect he has become only prosperous, not great. In the course of the weekend he flirts with suicide, Roman Catholicism, other women and fortune telling -- everything but an honest confrontation with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unsentimental Journey That's Life! | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Before it ends in a display of fireworks, the 30,000 people who jam into Soldiers Field will hear the Boston Pops, see several undergraduate performing groups and--if they can make it--witness performances by Jack Lemmon '47 and other famous alumni from the world of entertainment...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Big Party | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...Jack Lemmon stars in a profound reconception of Long Day' s Journey into Night. Also on Broadway: George C. Scott and Debbie Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page May 12, 1986 Vol. 127 No. 19 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...such economies that give Lutece with its four dining rooms the air of a simple country bistro -- an aura that appeals to some, but not to others. The most decor-conscious shun it, but it attracts many celebrities such as Jack Lemmon, Woody Allen and Bill Blass. Says Blass: "I love it because it has great food and because it is a bistro. I like to stop at the kitchen window and talk to Andre about what we will eat. I also like not having to jump up and embrace someone every other minute, and I like seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: America's Best French Restaurant | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...performances by Lemmon and Mastroianni are solid but not overwhelming. Lemmon's style of acting is so familiar as to be monotonous, like canned spaghetti, and Mastroianni comes nowhere near to being the wild Italian he is advertised as. Instead, he resembles the meatball on Lemmon's noodles...

Author: By T. M. Doyle, | Title: Too Much Sauce | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

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