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DIED. CAROL MATTHAU, 78, gossipy memoirist and widow of actor Walter Matthau, whose friendships with the elite of New York City cafe society she wittily recounted in her 1992 book, Among the Porcupines; of a brain aneurysm; in New York City. Before her 41-year marriage to Matthau, she was twice wed to playwright William Saroyan. She had a long friendship with Truman Capote, who, she claimed, modeled the character of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's after...
...COUPLE Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau were great actors; Tony Randall and Jack Klugman were Felix and Oscar...
...cohorts who suspect her of hiding a stolen fortune. Complicating the situation is Reggie’s complete unawareness of her husband’s past illegal activities, as well as ample aid from two strangers: the stringent government official Mr. Bartholomew, deftly played by then unknown actor Walter Matthau, and the enigmatic Joshua (Grant), who claims to be a long lost friend of her husband?...
...very adaptability helped him see both sides of any issue. In Double Indemnity insurance man Edward G. Robinson spits out suicide rates with the fervor of a baseball-stats maven. In The Fortune Cookie shyster Walter Matthau says that insurance companies have too much money: "They've run out of storage space--they have to microfilm it... So don't give me with the scruples." Wilder never straddled the fence; he trampolined from one side to the other...
...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, 55, editor and owner of the English-language Pakistani newspaper Frontier Post, to death for drug trafficking; in Islamabad. Reporters Sans Frontieres has denounced...