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...line with a nifty reverse spin on it. That was Wilder all over. He gave Hollywood's top stars their finest, fullest roles: Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.), Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina and Love in the Afternoon), Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot), Jack Lemmon (The Apartment and six others). And what was in it for the viewer? Roiling dramatic dilemmas, complex adult characters and, memorably, some of the tastiest slices of dialogue in movie history. That was the icing on Wilder's cake...
...with organizations that can facilitate our acquisition of the appropriate material.” Moylan is particularly pleased with the series of films being shown at the moment because they touch on all the different aspects of the Brattle that they want to emphasize. With the classics of Jack Lemmon on Mondays, culty teenage dramas on Tuesdays, recent raves on Wednesdays, movies of the Cuban Revolution on Fridays and special engagements on the weekends, the Brattle is providing us with a glimpse at what future programs may be like. So what are they thinking about for November and December? Perhaps...
...medium it loves to hate itself for loving. O'Connor's Archie Bunker, the consensus went, helped America make sense of a period of social turmoil in a way no news report ever could. In a way, O'Connor's media wake even outstripped that for Jack Lemmon, who died less than a week later, though TV actors usually land far lower on St. Peter's It List. Lemmon was praised as a master actor; but O'Connor was hailed as a national emblem, as history...
...unlike yesterday's local stations running Mayberry RFD, cable networks offer not just content but context. TV Land offers trivia nuggets and behind-the-scenes stories as well as "retromercials," the vintage commercials it airs every hour. A few days after Lemmon died, Game Show Network aired a marathon of his little-seen 1950s appearances on What's My Line? Amid the garish capitalist thunderdomes of today's prime-time game shows, seeing an urbane Lemmon and publisher Bennett Cerf trade quips in tuxes was a mini-lesson in changed American mores. "There was a real New York sophistication...
...also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED. YVONNE DIONNE, 67, one of Canada's famous captive quintuplets, "the Dionne Quints"; in Montreal. Until the age of nine, the "quints" were displayed as a tourist attraction, and were viewed by a total of 4 million visitors. DIED. JACK LEMMON, 76, esteemed actor; in Los Angeles. Lemmon is perhaps most famous for his role as straight man Felix Unger opposite Walter Matthau in the film version of The Odd Couple, and his Oscar-winning portrayal of Harry Stoner, a corrupt businessman in Save the Tiger. SENTENCED. REHMAT SHAH AFRIDI...