Word: lemmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mediocre Italian food, and Chasen's, where steak is cooked under white-hot rock salt, used to be No. 1 and No. 2. Now everyone is crowding into The Bistro-perhaps because nearly everyone is a stockholder: Laurence Harvey, Tony Curtis, George Axelrod, Otto Preminger, Robert Stack, Jack Lemmon, Jack Benny, Dean Martin, Merle Oberon, Sam Spiegel...
...Dean Jones). "That way we can test our character compatibility." Ugh? But don't go away. The plot doesn't really matter in this Hollywood version of the corny, porny comedy that ran for a season (1960-61) on Broadway. The only thing that matters is Jack Lemmon...
...Lemmon plays the lecherous landlord of the Centaur Apartments, a fellow who rents only to women and has a key for every lock. The minute he sees the heroine he starts weaving Lemmoniacal schemes to lure her into his "sin bin," a flat with blood-red wallpaper, passion-pit living room, bed about the size of Luxembourg, and two Murphy violins that hideaway in a closet and at the flick of a switch pop out and play...
...Lemmon's lecher is hilarious-partly because Lemmon is a marvelously skillful comedian, partly because he looks like a boy scout playing Bluebeard. And his satyr is a satire: a Pan in deadpan, a caricature of every young goat who can't say naaaaa...
...annually) and, except for Albania, pays its workers the least (per capita income: $135 a year). Bucharest eagerly cultivates Western traders to supply the latest machinery for its new steel and petrochemical plants; at home political discipline is tighter than ever. When Rumanians last year flocked to see Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment, the regime tried to offset its popularity by distributing leaflets explaining that the movie was really about decadence in New York City...