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...COUPLE. Art Carney and Wal ter Matthau are riotous roommates in Neil Simon's hilarious study of two men who thought they couldn't live with their wives-until they tried living with each other...
...follows the girl into a subbasement four floors below street level, and loses her. When he returns later, even the stairs have disappeared. He decides he is imagining things and tries unsuccessfully to get psychiatric help. He turns to a private detective (Walter Matthau), earnestly introducing himself as a cost accountant; then he realizes with a shock that he hasn't the slightest idea what a cost accountant is. After a quick check, Matthau reports succinctly: "For the last two years you've been doing something you know nothing about in an office that doesn't exist...
Before Peck discovers that he is a traumatized physicochemist, viewers must sweat along with him through several murders, a photogenic chase across Central Park, and a maddening game of mental gymnastics. Scenarist Peter Stone (Charade) varies the pace with droll asides, most of them knowingly shrugged off by Matthau as the reluctant snoop who abhors firearms and acts of heroism, and struggles gamely to look hard-bitten while guzzling Dr. Pepper...
...COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are wonderfully droll as two recently dewived men. Neil Simon's lines and Mike Nichols' direction keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity...
...COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are wonderfully droll as two recently de-wived men. Neil Simon's lines and the wild comic touch of Director Mike Nichols keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity...