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...Ordinary taxpayers acknowledge that economic reform is the only way out of Japan's bind, a view the West has pushed all along. "It's like you're in the final stages of a fatal disease and someone comes along with a potential cure," says Bill Wilder, head of the Japanese arm of Fidelity Investments. "You don't know if it'll work or if it won't, but you've got no choice." Some worry Koizumi is trying too much, too soon. "He's promised structural reforms, along with clearing up bank loans and cutting government debt...
...seeming intimacy of his asides, and that dry cackle of a laugh, he was the movies' Johnny Carson. Surely no one devoted as much intelligent energy as Lemmon did to chic, Hollywood-style humor in its mature years. Out of his mouth came acerb insights fashioned by Billy Wilder (seven films), Blake Edwards (six) and Neil Simon (four). The list includes The Apartment, Operation Mad Ball, the Odd Couple--and the all-time funniest farce, Some Like It Hot, in which he and Tony Curtis dress as women and Lemmon falls into character a little too deeply. That was Jack...
...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...
This dimpled, soft-spoken gent is proving again what has always been true: that American cinema is nourished by the artistry and vision of foreigners (Chaplin and Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder). Lately it has been the Asians' turn to show us how films can kick higher or probe deeper. Lee's films do both...
...award-winning actor made alpha male in 1962's alcoholic drama "Days of Wine and Roses," and the performance, opposite Lee Remick as his led-down-the-drain wife, is legendary. But the man was a born foil, whose career spiked in two collaborations. One was with Billy Wilder, who directed Lemmon in "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment," two of the best films of the century thanks in no small part to Lemmon, and after that, "Irma La Douce," "The Fortune Cookie," "Avanti!" "The Front Page" and "Buddy Buddy...