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Academy Award-winning actor Jack Lemmon '47 abruptly cancelled a scheduled appearance with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) last night. The show, originally slated for Nov. 3 and 4, will be postponed indefinitely...
...dark roles (he beat up Elvis Presley in King Creole, took a shot at Audrey Hepburn in Charade) until Wilder and Simon put him above the title. Then he suavely juggled two genres: romantic comedy (A New Leaf, House Calls) and 32 years of grumpy-buddy movies with Jack Lemmon. He had a few weaknesses, but optimism wasn't one of them. "I'm a degenerate gambler," he said in 1994. "If I get lucky, I'll die before I go broke." He went out (as a dying meanie in Hanging Up) the way he came in: like the sour...
...Story of Menstruation (no, Minnie's not in it) and Warner's 1962 poli-scare film Red Nightmare. You'll see a teenage Dick York (the first Darren on TV's Bewitched) as a "shy guy" who wins friends by sharing his radio-building expertise, and young Jack Lemmon, in Once Too Often, as a smug suburbanite headed for a sickening car crash. Sex Hygiene, a 1942 VD film with gross-out closeups of pustulant penises and bizarre soaping rituals, was directed for the Navy by no less than John Ford...
...snarky Will & Grace, the book of heartfelt life lessons from dying professor Morrie Schwartz (Jack Lemmon) to his ex-student, sportswriter Mitch Albom (Hank Azaria), has become phenomenon enough to merit a punch line (a wealthy client fires Will, blithely telling him to read Albom's book and appreciate all he still has). But for the unironic masses who've kept this memento Morrie a best seller for more than 100 weeks, ABC has needlepointed an Oprah Winfrey Presents telepic that's as earnest as life is short. However worthy the book, its carpe diem aphorisms don't translate well...
...loving trading golf stories with Jack Lemmon...