Word: matthau
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...mustaches and wine red crushed velvet tuxedos: the women looked like tennis club matrons and their escorts like croupiers. The teenies had come for Al Pacino, but he was in New York. Prodded by the eupeptic booming of the outside master of ceremonies, they stayed to squeal at Walter Matthau and (in some puzzlement) at the evening's representative of the muse of irony, Gore Vidal. When Elizabeth Taylor, almost the last survivor of the studio star system for which the Oscar ceremony had been created, appeared on the walkway, it was like the arrival of a galleon...
...given day, Dr. Spock might be glimpsed there selecting towels, Walter Matthau trying on suits. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis recently passed through to order presents to be sent to Caroline in London. Singer Diana Ross outfits herself and her children there?by long distance from California. Basketball Star Earl Monroe may drop in to pick up some after-shave lotion?and, he says, to "see how people with money...
...Sunshine Boys, maybe vaudeville's most famous comedy team, have been officially split up for eleven years. Willy Clark (Walter Matthau) ascribes the mutual animosity to "artistic differences." Self-preservation might be closer to the mark...
...Walter Matthau, decked out in some excellent old-duffer makeup by Dick Smith (of The Godfather), is at some pains to be cute while he is at his most irascible. His portrait of Willy is too selfconscious, too deliberately insinuating. But George Burns, rasping and lively-eyed, makes a fine Al. Burns, 79, has always been the foremost purveyor of the sideways insult that comes in low and inside before it hits the mark. He has added just for the occasion a diabolical ingenuousness, which can raise hackles and laughter in equal, generous measure...
Actress Tatum O'Neal has switched from pitching Bibles with her father Ryan O'Neal in Paper Moon to pitching baseballs for Coach Walter Matthau in the forthcoming movie The Bad News Bears. Tatum, who these days fancies stepping out to parties in long gowns with superfluous decolletage, doesn't much care for her film costume: a Little League baseball suit. "It's suffocatingly hot," she complains. Furthermore, she isn't interested in baseball, and had to have coaching by Papa Ryan before she could get the ball across the plate. Even worse, when...