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America has always had a strong love affair with movie stars. Hollywood's heroes and heroines seem to be larger than life as they allow us to escape the drudgery of the daily routine, if only for a few hours.

Monument Valley is known to cinephiles as "John Ford Country" because the great director made seven Western masterpieces there - "Stagecoach," "My Darling Clementine," "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," "The Searchers," "Sergeant Rutledge" and "Cheyenne Autumn." But he also used to great advantage another Utah location - Moab - when he ...

The shortcomings of "Mister Roberts'' were easy to overlook in the 1955 film version because of the performances by Henry Fonda, William Powell, a snarling, hissing James Cagney, and especially a brilliant young actor named Jack Lemmon.

For New Rep artistic director Kate Warner, it's anchors aweigh with 'Mister Roberts' The cast and crew of New Repertory Theatre's "Mister Roberts'' aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

Jack Lemmon did some of his best work with Billy Wilder, but even in his lesser films, some of which are collected in this new Sony box set, he is never less than engaged and engaging.

Jack Lemmon was Hollywood's go-to good guy in the first phase of his nearly five-decade film career, a hapless everyman who found himself in situations over which he had little or no control.