Word: lemmons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lemmon's performance in "Some Like It Hot" remains his greatest achievement. He reveals himself to be an inspired and talented comedic actor, and his work on "Some Like It Hot" is his legacy to acting...
...real Jack Lemmon, however, will be present here at Harvard over the weekend, and present in the other delightful films which from the Harvard Film Archive feature--"Some Like It Hot," "The Apartment," and "How to Murder Your Wife." Lemmon has had a distinguished career of giving pleasure to his audience, one we celebrate this weekend...
...unfortunate to see Lemmon--like Woody Allen and Robin Williams--become seemingly ashamed of his comedic talents, and turn to awful "serious" roles in order to get respect. Woody Allen went from making great, loopy comedies to putting out insufferable Ingmar Bergmanesque dramas, as strained as facelifts and as painful as enemas. Robin Williams turned to sentimental pabulum like "Dead Poets' Society" and "Awakenings." Lemmon turned from Billy Wilder comedies like "Some Like It Hot" to appalling pieces of work like 1973's abominable "Save the Tiger," (for which he won the Academy Award as Best Actor) and Constantine Costa...
...Missing," Lemmon plays ED Horman, a conservative American businessman whose son, residing in Chile, disappears a few days after the 1973 military coup that brought General Pinochet to power. Horman travels to Chile and, along with his daughter-in-law, Beth (Sissy Spacek), tries to find out what happened...
...Lemmon is at the center of the film, and he brings down the entire enterprise. Dreadfully earnest and concerned, he is the virtuous, apolitical innocent with whom the audience is supposed to identify. Lemmon's performance is twitchy and insufferable. It is almost impossible to believe that this man is the same Jack Lemmon who tangoed with a rose between his teeth while dressed in a flapper's dress. What's really "Missing" here is the real Jack Lemmon...