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...Phoenix is a kinder, gentler club," said Gogliormella. "But most of the wilder stuff happens at initiation...
Leonardo da Vinci stood on one end of the stage, Mickey Mantle on the other. The Mick seemed a little out of place in the company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City...
...Wilder's and Diamond's writing is crackerjack, and Wilder's direction snappy and inspired, but the success of "Some Like It Hot" rests primarily on its legendary cast. Marilyn Monroe is sweet and voluptuous, and gets to sing "I want to Be Loved by You." Curtis acquits himself with grace, especially in the millionaire bit. Joe E. Brown gives an impeccable performance, the apogee of a lifetime of acting...
...acting honors in "Some Like It Hot," however, belong to Lemmon. Wilder referred to Lemmon as a ham, and here it works to the film's advantage. Lemmon's complete surrender to his role, his willingness to look absolutely ridiculous, mirrors the comedy of the musician's giving in to the pleasures of being a woman. Daphne loves wearing the clothes, and loves the attention she gets from men; she begins to think of herself as a really sexy girl...
...awful "serious" roles in order to get respect. Woody Allen went from making great, loopy comedies to putting out insufferable Ingmar Bergmanesque dramas, as strained as facelifts and as painful as enemas. Robin Williams turned to sentimental pabulum like "Dead Poets' Society" and "Awakenings." Lemmon turned from Billy Wilder comedies like "Some Like It Hot" to appalling pieces of work like 1973's abominable "Save the Tiger," (for which he won the Academy Award as Best Actor) and Constantine Costa-Gavras' 1982 "Missing...