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He was born to the role: son of a Boston executive, prep-school boy, Harvard grad, a Navy ensign (like Mister Roberts' Pulver). From the start he was a master of comic timing, of the buttoned-down double take. That flummoxed look paired nicely with his ricochet vocal rhythms--he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clown Prince: JACK LEMMON (1925-2001) | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

In his first eminence, Lemmon was usually the nice Joe--"honest, thrifty, methodical, sober, upright and really kinda dull," as he says of himself in Phffft!--getting wooed by prime kooky blonds Judy Holliday and Kim Novak. With Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and Irma la Douce, he was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clown Prince: JACK LEMMON (1925-2001) | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

And then there is our main cover image, Julia Roberts. Some readers may be taken aback to see her in the company of Philip Roth and August Wilson and Ang Lee. But by picking her as America's Best Movie Star, we tried to explore how a performer can transcend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking America's Best | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

Enter Julia Roberts, bearing an Oscar. In this free-market free-for-all, she epitomizes the paradox of being the best. Is Roberts the best American actress? That little statue is a sign that she can sometimes be a screen presence to reckon with, but in any ballot of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Best | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

And why would Julia Roberts believe in regret? For the gods have not only blessed her with a $20 million smile, they've been smiling on her ever since 1985, when she graduated from high school in Smyrna, Ga., and headed to New York City to be with her big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Star: Julia Roberts | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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