Jack Lemmon News

Separating dramas from comedies and musicals has always invested the Golden Globes with extra interest.

Although I've never seen the original "Odd Couple," I had a strange inkling it was a source of inspiration for Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau's "Grumpy Old Men." Whether or not that is true, those two stayed with me throughout Chanticleer Theater's "The Odd Couple: Female Version." Neil Simon performed some light gender modification surgery on his ...

For a year now, the global financial crisis has been associated in my mind with a curious movie image from 1979: the gently rippling surface of a cup of coffee.

Mitch Albom is known to millions as the author of Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lesson , a sportswriter's recounting of time spent with a former professor facing his final illness.

Get ready for some laughs when the Richland Players present their latest comedy, Leading Ladies .

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress as women in the movie "Some Like it Hot." Photo: Filmreference.com Legendary film actor Tony Curtis, now 84 years old, will be appearing at the Cinema Arts Center in Huntington, NY on Friday November 6, 2009 to sign copies of his new book "The Making of 'Some Like It Hot' My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and The ...

Accomplished actors Gordon McConnell, front, and Avi Hoffman are the last two surviving Jews in Kabul and worst enemies.

TV writer and producer who earned an Academy Award nomination for his first produced screenplay, the well-received melodrama, "Save the Tiger" , which starred Jack Lemmon in a tale of mobsters and reality in the.... TV writer and producer who earned an Academy Award nomination for his first produced screenplay, the well-received melodrama, "Save ...

There was a farce comedy movie back in the 60s called "The Great Race". It starred Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, just about anybody who was farcical comedies back then.

CORONADO, Calif. a ' For more than 120 years, it has stood like a heavenly vision along the white sandy beach just a few miles from downtown San Diego.

Rating : * * * * Verdict : Fast and furious French farce. Prolific French comic writer/director Veber, whose slim and nimble entertainments are often remade in Hollywood, gets the last word here.

If you're quick, there's still time to catch a classic Neil Simon comedy, writes Lynda Smart .

Scarlett Johansson is heading to Broadway, according to reports. The screen beauty, 24, is set to star opposite Will & Grace star Sean Hayes in the Neil Simon musical, Promises, Promises.

Some Like It Hot was nominated for six Academy Awards in 1959 but won just one gold statue -- for costume design.

Dir. Billy Wilder . Two jazz musicians- Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon -witness a gangster massacre, escaping Chicago disguised as members of an all-female band whose featured performer is Marilyn Monroe .

I haven't seen my generation's contribution to the cinema of alcoholism but have seen Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream and would put Days of Wine and Roses in a similar class.

Unstoppable Tony Curtis is returning to the big screen. The legendary 84-year-old actor, who recently had a health scare while visiting New York City, showed up in a wheelchair Wednesday at the Chaine des Rotisseurs dinner at Rao's with his wife Jill .

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.

'Mass Appeal,' a play written by Bill C. Davis, will be performed in the sanctuary of First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ in Battle Creek.on September 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. and September 20 at 3:00 p.m. It was a Tony Award nominee for both Best Actor and Best Play and wascelebrated asone of the highlights of the 1981 season.

Larry Gelbart, the award-winning comedy writer best known for developing the landmark TV series "MASH," co-writing the book for the hit Broadway musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and co-writing the classic movie comedy "Tootsie," died Friday.