Word: matthau
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...Walter Matthau does not have to stretch too far to accurately portray a disheveled subway dispatcher--this is vintage Matthau: New York accent, stained shirts, mussed hair and bulbous nose dipping its way into everyone's business. As we follow Matthau's attempts to thwart the hijackers, the absolutely tangled insanity of this underground city, the subway, comes...
Every frame of this movie contains a mixture of suspense and humor, and the wonderful final scene between Matthau and Martin Balsam is no exception...
...famous actors -- Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Donald Sutherland, John Candy, Ed Asner -- into small roles...
Unlike the Olympian detachment that is the traditional pose of Washington columnists, Safire projects a rumpled persona far closer to Walter Matthau's than Walter Lippmann's. His clothes are L.L. Bean, not Savile Row. Safire retains the unbuttoned style, the street-smart diction and the wry-not enthusiasms of a man who happily spent his formative years as a successful public relations flack in New York City. Where other conservative columnists like George Will and William F. Buckley can be precious and predictable, Safire prides himself on his reporting and contrarian thinking. "A column should not be a chore...