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...aged, Lemmon found inspiration in the works of "serious" authors--John Osborne (a TV version of The Entertainer), David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), Raymond Carver (Short Cuts)--writers with the bilious comic flow of a Wilder, but with no happy ending as a reward for all that suffering. In Glengarry Glen Ross, Lemmon is Shelley Levene, a peddler of diseased land and phony hopes, and a failure not because of scruples but because the system he serves is stacked against...
...Lemmon was the broken-willed heart of David Mamet's classic sucked-dry-salesmen ensemble talker "Glengarry Glen Ross" (a performance that not only gave the picture its due dose of pathos but inspired a "Simpsons" character, the recurring sad-sack salesman "Gil"). In his later years, television gave Lemmon his senior-circuit thespianic showcase, appearing in acclaimed versions of "Inherit the Wind" and "12 Angry Men" with George C. Scott, and winning an Emmy as the dying professor in the 2000 TV adaptation of the best seller "Tuesdays with Morrie...
...Sure we want to get the social theme," says "Family" Writer Alan Ross, "but the show is a half-hour comedy on commercial TV, and if it's not funny you might as well be on the lecture platform." As George S. Kaufman pointed out, speaking of Broadway, the savage moralizing of satire is what closes at the end of one week; sitcoms must go on week after week. Acknowledging this, Yorkin and Lear are entertainers who brandish the weapons of satire but use them sparingly. Their Bunkers and Sanfords are sheep in wolves' clothing ? domesticated in every sense from...
...party's nod and switched eight months ago to the anemic New York G.O.P. He is hoping that his puckish smile, fabulous parties and high-wire life (he owns homes in Manhattan, London, Bermuda and Westchester County, flies his own helicopter and has dated women like Diana Ross) will outshine a Democratic field littered with smart but lackluster pols. And Bloomberg has proved that his dollars come with sense, hiring an A-list team of political veterans to finesse his policies and produce his image...
...many, the notion that primitive hunters could have killed off more than 100 species of large animals has long seemed preposterous. While Homo sapiens certainly killed and ate the likes of mammoths and mastodons, notes Ross MacPhee, an expert on mammalian extinctions at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, it must have done so with great caution. As he puts it: "If some guy walked up to a mammoth armed only with a pointy stick, chances are he would have been road pizza within minutes...