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More recently the Pudding has hatched a basketful of alumni who have continued their theatrical pursuits professionally. Alan Jay Lerner '40 wrote the music for two consecutive shows. Jack Lemmon '47 was president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals. In 1946, he starred in something call The Proof of the Pudding and was compelled to perform under a pseudonym, reputedly because he was then on academic probation. And anyone who has seen Lemmon as Daphne on the screen in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot will recognize the appeal of the role for Lemmon--the quintessential Pudding part...
SAVE THE TIGER. Jack Lemmon wakes in the morning screaming-and he is worse off than he knows. Before the day is out he will have to see about having his clothing factory in Long Beach burned for the insurance money; introduce the new fall line of Capri Casuals; endure a brief nervous breakdown; inhale a joint or two of cannabis; sleep with an aging love child off the Sunset Strip; dream of a pop apocalypse populated by everyone from Bobby Kennedy to James Earl Ray; and recite lines like "I wanna walk in the kind of rain that never...
...Lemmon, rather less febrile here than usual, portrays Harry Stoner, a middle-aged businessman of average rapacity who has fallen victim to anomie and his accountant. Down at Capri Casuals, money is as scarce as affection at Harry's house. His only child, a daughter, is away at boarding school in Switzerland, and he and his wife have not exercised their connubial rights in some time. Harry can't stand it. But it is also difficult to stand Harry. His soulless soliloquies and fearless superficiality thoroughly sour the movie...
SUNDAY: Some Like It Hot. 1959 Billy Wilder spoof stars Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon. CH. 56, 6 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. Lawrence of Arabia. A stirring romantic intelligent and magnificent epic. David Lean's 1962 biography of T.E. Lawrence won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and vaulted Peter O'Toole to stardom. First time on television. CH. 5, 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Concluded Monday night...
SATURDAY: The Blue Angel. 1930 German classic with Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jennings. CH. 2. 8 p.m. B.W. 2 hrs. The Apartment. Jack Lemmon '47 in Billy Wilder's 1960 bittersweet comedy about corporate executive morals. Nominated for 10 Oscars, won 4. Lemmon's best...