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Celebrated actor, producer and director Jack Lemmon '47 will receive the first Harvard Arts Medal when he is honored as part of its third annual Arts First celebration, University officials have announced...
President Neil L. Rudenstine will present Lemmon with the award at a ceremony on April 29. The medal is "meant to go to an alumnus or alumna who has made a significant contribution to the arts," said Myra May-man, director of the Harvard University Office for the Arts...
...celebrities -- certifiable ones, as well as members of the over-the- hill gang -- struggling less and less with the stigma of selling? While stars like Laurence Olivier and Candice Bergen have always fronted for high- profile products (and others, like Michael Douglas and Jack Lemmon, do uncredited voice-overs on commercials), a growing number of celebrities are entering the traditionally shadowy universe of direct marketing. "More so than ever, we have clients coming to us saying, 'I want to do an infomercial. Find me the right one,' " claims Rick Bradley, a talent representative at the William Morris Agency who pairs...
Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon are awfully good at this sort of thing. You might say they've been practicing since they were (relatively speaking) kids. By this time they instinctively know how to bring out the comic best in each other -- Matthau's bullying misanthropy, Lemmon's melancholic good cheer. It follows that they invest Grumpy Old Men, in which they play querulous neighbors, with an appeal that is nostalgic and, if you are a devotee of well- practiced shtick, technically seamless...
Grumpy Old Men avoids both queasiness and boredom by throwing only sharp, sidelong glances at old-age issues like straitened circumstances and the death of friends. And the fact that Matthau and Lemmon are playing men of their own ages (73 and 68), which Harris and Duvall (61 and 63) are not, adds authenticity and an element of gallantry to the movie. It also suggests a solution to the problem of old age: if you're healthy, keep working...