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...being given a splendid revival in Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum Theater, with Walter Matthau in the role of the vainglorious Captain Boyle, Jack Lemmon as his bar "butty" Joxer, and Maureen Stapleton as his earth mother wife Juno. How did this particular production come about? Matthau and Lemmon had wanted to do the play for some tune, preferably with Stapleton. They approached Gordon Davidson, the energetic artistic director of the Mark Taper, and gave him a commitment for a five-week limited run, which was sold out by opening night...
...result, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz operates on a very different level than does, say, Save the Tiger, in which Jack Lemmon plays an all too aware salesman who realizes that the only way he can escape bankruptcy is to set his clothes factory on fire and collect insurance on the damage. The balancing of financial exigencies with the principles of fair play make for a far more sophisticated handling of moral tension than takes place in this movie about a boy "still soaking behind the ears...
...screenplay, four minor prizes) could have surprised only those who cling to the fantasy that Hollywood's Academicians enjoy rewarding controversy (The Exorcist), truth telling (Cries and Whispers, American Graffiti) or success that is merely modest (A Touch of Class). The best-actor and best-actress choices-Jack Lemmon and Glenda Jackson-were also safe and sane. He is a popular local boy; she is a remote great lady winning her second Oscar in three years. Youth and age were equally served by the selections of ten-year-old Tatum O'Neal and 71-year-old John Houseman...
...Jack Lemmon deserved to be named best actor years ago for Billy Wilder's The Apartment --he won the award for Save the Tiger this year, where he plays a businessman who's shrewdly shady activities are justified, in the film's scheme of things, by the pressures around...
...once, Gloria Steinem, 36, the ranking elder stateswoman of Women's Lib, did not have the first word. Jack Lemmon, 48, the actor whose movie about a middle-aged sellout, Save the Tiger, is big at the box office, beat her to it. Both were in Cambridge, Mass., to receive awards from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Lemmon allowed that Ms. Steinem "scared the hell out of me." Would he rather be Man of the Year than Person of the Year? Replied Lemmon: "...I'm glad to be anything!" Steinem was somewhat more partisan. Accepting an award...