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Most top college crews have a calm, tree-edged river or lake to paddle around in, a well-appointed boathouse to change in, and money from old grads for new equipment. Not so the University of California at Berkeley. One of Coach Jim Lemmon's shells has been around for 29 years and the building his eights call home was built in 1925. His practice course? It would probably be easier to row through Times Square...
Jack Armstrong's cohorts are an improper Bohemian (Joan Darling) and "an aggressive, successful young lawyer" (Buck Henry), an astringent facsimile of Jack Lemmon with everything pared away but the raging, libidinous core. Together these three spray buckshot at everything from psychological testing to Hollywood sex and suspense to Harold Lloyd cliffhangers and the sacrifice of 5th century Chinese maidens. Occasionally they take time out to paint one another white, or to elude a Sanitation Department truck propelled by murderous impulses. With all its freewheeling eclecticism and formless exuberance, The Troublemaker is finally just funny enough to leave...
What they saw was nothing to party about. Jack Lemmon, master of ceremonies, told cardboard jokes and looked somewhat cardboard himself in his rented tails. The only funny moment in the 140-minute show came when Sammy Davis Jr., as presenter of some minor award, was handed the wrong envelope. "Wait till the N.A.A.C.P. hears about this!" he said somewhat obscurely, drawing a sizable laugh...
Topping the evening was a takeoff on Tom Jones, with Jack Lemmon approximately re-creating the scene in which Tom eats dinner at an inn with a bright-eyed woman of palpable lust, staring into her eyes as both munch, chew and savor hunks of meat and chicken, licking their fingers and biting sensuously into ripe fruit until they cannot stand it any more and run upstairs for dessert. In Hollywood last week, it was Jack Lemmon, writer at Universal Pictures, and his secretary, played by his handsome wife, Felicia Farr. Entering his office in a very low-cut dress...
...spanking new Paris Cinema, with its drunken murals of Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, with its little attendant in gendarme costume (a la Jack Lemmon) who welcomes all with a sheepish "bon soir," with its rotund manager exuding continental pleasantries in Maurice Chevalier tones as he hustles customers to their upholstered seats, really put me in the mood for Billy Liar...