Word: matthau
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Sardonic or Phrase-Chomping. On second thought, they probably will. Its just that they shouldn't. "The problem," as Matthau accurately puts it, "is that I'm too good." Each of his character creations has a fine-tuned completeness that leaves no room for Matthau the personality to peek through. A gimmick a trademark, an image, Matthau does not have: "People either ask me, 'Are you a television actor? or else, 'Are you from Erie, Pa.?' " Playwright Simon says Matthau is "the greatest instinctive actor I ve ever seen " He has turned in impeccable, widely...
...born-and-bred New Yorker chose acting as the easiest thing to do on the G.I. Bill sides the Dramatic Workshop was then near Madison Square Garden, and "I didn't want to miss too many events." At the moment, having lost bringing in Odd Couple, Matthau considers acting "the hardest job known to mankind," and he works and worries his craft to unusual perfection...
...Couple part of the tough, sprawling sportswriter, Matthau for once has a role that, without strain fits him like an old pair of pants. In fact he wears a pair of his own on stage, marvelously purple dungarees that cost him 12? in Chinatown. Like Oscar in the play, Matthau is a natural-born lounger, poker fan and sports butt...
...that Matthau always gets his way One of his ideas is to exchange roles, play the part of the puttering fusspot husband "because it would more of a challenge," and let Carney roar throuah the role of Oscar. But with a hit it might be dangerous to switch...
...Matthau has by now become the perfect Oscar, and besides it would only start the trouble all over again: Who was that wonderful what's-his-name who was on first...