Word: lemmons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLAY'S THE THING--or at least it ought to be. But there are times when a performer so transcends the script that the work seems to be just tagging along for the ride. Jack Lemmon's virtuosity in Bernard Slade's Tribute is a current example, and now Irene Worth has come along to provide another in Corinne Jacker's new play After the Season...
...hero, Scottie Templeton (Jack Lemmon), is a charming, but irresponsible public relations man with a bad case of leukemia. Scottie's one gift has been his ability to make people happy, and in his last days he tries to reconcile with the one person he has made miserable, his son, Jud (Robert Picardo), whom he abandoned in the divorce settlement. He amuses Jud with jokes and funny costumes, finds him a girl (Catherine Hicks), and smothers him with affection. But Jud, a 20-year-old fogy, refuses to shake the glad hand. "Mom said you once told Sonja Henie...
...other actors supply the tears, but most of the sweat comes from Lemmon, who gives his best performance in years. It is comparatively simple to make a character mean or nasty, lovable or funny. Capturing charm, that most elusive of all qualities, is much harder. Dropping all the irritating mannerisms that have marred his recent movies, Lemmon makes the task seem like ease itself. He is a better actor than he usually allows himself to be, and if it does nothing else, Tribute has restored him to the profession...
...school has produced public servants like Henry Stimson and George Bush. Yale, the Los Angeles Times and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are all headed by Andover graduates. Other alumni include the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tarzan Creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Actor Jack Lemmon. Humphrey Bogart never got his diploma; he was kicked out in 1918 for "incontrollably high spirits...
...Broadway is a foregone conclusion (and if gaseous schlock like Deathtrap, which opened here in January, can be a hit, well--anything goes). Tribute must strike very close to the bones of some of its contributors: Slade, still struggling to shake off Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, and Lemmon, a graduate of the Hasty Pudding chorus line and academic probation at Harvard. These men, at some point in their lives, decided to stop clowning around and get serious. Both are at a point where their deepening maturity and inherent comic inspiration can merge and go deeper still...