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...Californian slipping into his anecdotage. He is both abetted and hindered by his director, a new boy named Jack Lemmon. Matthau and Lemmon first worked together as fellow actors in Fortune Cookie and consolidated their partnership in The Odd Couple. Lemmon obviously has great affection for his sidekick; in 114 minutes, the star is hardly ever offscreen...
...eight years, on TV and in the movies, Harold J. Smith was known as Tonto, the bass-toned sidekick of the Lone Ranger (played by John Hart). But now Smith has assumed a more authentic Indian name. "Jay Silverheels is a translation of my Indian name," he explained after having it legally changed, "and since I'm an Indian, I've never seen a reason why I shouldn't use it." His grandfather became a Smith, Silverheels noted, when Indian officials advised members of the family to change their names "so that they wouldn...
...weekend ("The Lost Weekend," someone yelled back): through another guy's apostrophe to this "pure and simple love story" (a premarital affair between a foul-mouthed Cliffie and an Oedipal jock is now by Hollywood's eyes pure and simple ?); through a third's attempt to thank Pusey sidekick Bentinck-Smith (although he kept mispronouncing it Benting ) for allowing the film crew on campus as "friendly trespassers." And when Segal concluded it all by referring to Harvard as "an institution for which everyone here has respect," he brought down the house...
Saddlesore and dust-caked, two aging cowpokes ride slowly into the gathering dusk. John O'Hanlan (James Stewart) listens with mounting exasperation as his longtime sidekick Harley Sullivan (Henry Fonda) rambles...
...plate, but it was worth it; amid the celebration came a phone call from the President. The White House gagwriters had obviously been at work: "The operator said we had a bad connection," Richard Nixon told the Great One. "I was afraid your Norton [Jackie's bumbling TV sidekick] had gone to work for the telephone company." Replied Gleason: "If you'd like to be on my staff, Mr. President, you're more than welcome." Nixon had the last and best laugh at a Washington dinner for broadcast correspondents. In a sly allusion to the dropping...