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...chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Automobile Law. Fuchsberg. who also happens to have a prosperous private practice in auto-damage cases, charged that the A.I.A. members merely wanted "to get the Government off their backs." Another vocal critic of the A.I.A. recommendation was Vestal Lemmon, president of the rival National Association of Independent Insurers, whose 480 affiliates (including State Farm Mutual and Allstate, the two biggest auto insurers) write more than half of U.S. auto-insurance policies. Lemmon raised serious doubts as to whether the A.I.A. plan would actually reduce premium rates, also criticized...
...Jill O'Hara. Both are talented but neither is quite right. Ohrbach settles comfortably into the easy, audience-conscious manner Simon has designed for him, draws all the requisite laughs, sings at least passably on occasion, but has none of the timely flavor or the essential fascination of Jack Lemmon in the movie. Miss O'Hara has some charm and quite a voice when her range and Bacharach's coincide, but has not yet defined herself sufficiently beyond the realm of run-of-the-mill ingenues. Still less fortunate is Edward Winter as Mr. Sheldrake, a transparent, utterly uninteresting characterization...
Less funny if more consistent is Gene Saks' filmed version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. A dull bunch of character actors takes the edge off the comedy, and Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon don't work nearly so well together as in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie. By chance this assertion can be tested since The Fortune Cookie is on re-release at the Orpheum. It, rather than The Odd Couple or The Producers, is the legitimate '60's heir to the best tradition of Hollywood comedies...
...COUPLE. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon have a marvelous time picking and raging at each other in this stage-bound adaptation of Neil Simon's Broadway comedy about two badly matched buddies who try to help each other through the traumas of divorce...
...COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway hit about an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transferred to the screen virtually intact, although Actor Matthau's comic genius more than compensates for the static mise en scene...