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...college squash that the rest of the collegiate squash world follows their duels like fans. Following his team's 9-0 shellacking, Army coach Paul Assaiante offered the evaluation that, "although Princeton's pretty tough on racket skills, Harvard's probably better." "In other words," Crimson number two Geordie Lemmon paraphrasea the Cadet mentor, "He's telling us, 'Don't get excited and choke...
They just look funny. Jack Lemmon: personification of the Excedrin headache, his sinus cavities almost visible, the corners of his mouth wrenched in a clown's grimace as the voice machine-guns a blast of staccato croaks. Walter Matthau: the epitome of slob insouciance, a flophouse face and shaggy-dog body, wearing clothes like rumpled bed sheets, maneuvering across a room like a hunchback tiptoeing on roller skates. To see either one is to smile; to see them together, in The Fortune Cookie or The Odd Couple or here, working variations on the Mutt-and-Jeff theme...
This time Matthau is a career assassin, eradicating Mob stool pigeons with the weary professionalism of a top C.P.A., and Lemmon, a network censor and a jilted husband poised to end his misery in suicide. They meet on their mutual missions, in a hotel room. For Matthau it is loathe at first sight; for Lemmon it is a last grab at camaraderie before lights out. See how they run on the treadmill of French farce, tripping over each other's discomfort, overdosing on the crudest twists of plot...
...Some of the jokes and targets have lost their currency ("Prema ture ejaculation means always having to say you're sorry"? Hippies? Slow-witted chicanos?). But if Wilder's antique vehicle is no more than serviceable, it is ever at the service of two meticulous farceurs, and Lemmon and Matthau are never less than funny funny...
...Geordie Lemmon is verging on superstardom," said coach Dave Fish before the match. He's just got to decide he wants it; the only thing holding him back is his head...