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Jack Lemmon Wire (Page 2)

Comprehensive News Feed for Jack Lemmon.

Results 21 - 40 of 164 in Jack Lemmon

  1. Jack Lemmon's talent shines in new DVD collectionRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday Jun 18 | Desert Sun

    During his career, Jack Lemmon became one of the most beloved movie stars in Hollywood because he was the same kind of person in real life that he often played on the screen.

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  2. Thinking of dad, with a fresh twist of LemmonRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday Jun 17 | North County News

    ... TV networks by which to pipe their jingles into every home. In that dream world, the movie star of choice was Jack Lemmon, because he was like all of us, as healthy and well-trimmed as our front lawns -- even if privately just as susceptible to the ...

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  3. 'The Odd Couple' a success on stage, film and TVRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday Jun 17 | Midland / Penetanguishene Mirror

    ... audiences will enjoy the legendary characters made famous by Walter Matthau and Art Carney on stage, Matthau and Jack Lemmon in the film, and Jack Klugman and Tony Randall on television. Director Adam Furfaro is no stranger to the King's Wharf ...

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    Related Topix: The Odd Couple, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Odd Couple, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Canada, Ontario, Penetanguishene, ON

  4. DVD Reviews | Vengeful series low on ingenuity

    Tuesday Jun 16 | Columbus Dispatch

    ... to offer: more coherent narratives, smoother direction, better movies." -- Dave Kehr The New York Times 'The Jack Lemmon Collection' NOT RATED, $59.95 In a film career that spanned almost 50 years, Lemmon was seldom a soothing presence. Stammering ...

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  5. Jack Lemmon

    Sunday Jun 14 | Davekehr.com

    A new box set from Sony documents Jack Lemmon's reign as America's ultimate male hysteric, trapped between the corporate conformism of the 1950s and the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

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  6. DVD review: 'The Jack Lemmon Film Collection'Read the original story

    Sunday Jun 14 | SFGate

    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.

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  7. Video Patrol: New box sets about Norman Lear, Woodstock, Jack LemmonRead the original story

    Friday Jun 12 | News Chief

    ... features is also available, for $69.99, as is a more limited, two-disc Special Edition DVD, for $24.98.) - "The Jack Lemmon Film Collection" (six discs, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $59.95, not rated): I don't want to overstate the significance ...

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    Related Topix: Phffft!, Drama Movies, The Odd Couple, Comedy Movies, It Should Happen to You, Days of Wine and Roses, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

  8. Tale of an unlikely pair at Little Theatre

    Thursday Jun 11 | Hebdenbridge Today

    HEBDEN Bridge Little Theatre's summer production is Neil Simon's comedy 'The Odd Couple' which, after a long run as a smash hit on Broadway became a very successful film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in the lead roles.

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  9. Noteworthy DVDs released

    Jun 8, 2009 | The Austin American-Statesman

    ... to be his final acting role - that of a edgy old dude quick to point guns at people. It's a stretch. "The Jack Lemmon Film Collection" (Sony): A handful of lesser-known Lemmons, including: "Phffft!," "Operation Mad Ball," "The Notorious Landlady," ...

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    Related Topix: Gran Torino, Under the Yum Yum Tree, The Notorious Landlady, Phffft!, Comedy Movies, Good Neighbor Sam, Mystery Movies

  10. DVD box sets: Norman Lear, Woodstock and Jack Lemmon

    Jun 8, 2009 | Modesto Bee

    ... features is also available, for $69.99, as is a more limited, two-disc Special Edition DVD, for $24.98.) "The Jack Lemmon Film Collection" (6 discs, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $59.95, not rated): I don't want to overstate the significance of ...

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    Related Topix: Phffft!, Drama Movies, The Odd Couple, Comedy Movies, It Should Happen to You, Days of Wine and Roses, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

  11. Movielady: Some Like it Hot (1959): "The Comedy Classic that Almost...

    Jun 6, 2009 | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    ... the 100 greatest movies and #1 in their list of the top 100 comedies. It starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. It was a film that almost didn't get made. Back in 1959 the original Movielady, Jessica Atwater (1910-2008), picked up a ...

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  12. 'My Life in Ruins' brought to life by star, sceneryRead the original story w/Photo

    Jun 4, 2009 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    "My life in Ruins," starring Nia Vardalos. When did Nia Vardalos get so thin? When did Richard Dreyfuss age enough to play the Walter Matthau-Jack Lemmon old-guy role? And is a cinematic trip to Greece and the welcome return of Vardalos enough to entice moviegoers to "My Life in Ruins"? Those were the sort of questions running through my mind while ...

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  13. Glengarry Glen RossRead the original story

    Jun 3, 2009 | Back Stage

    ... is distinctive: lanky, ultraconfident, and utterly without sympathy. Diane Davis' Shelly Levene mirrors what Jack Lemmon did for the role in the film version and is the only memorable salesperson of the cast. Davis' Levene is old-school, desperate ...

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    Related Topix: Glengarry Glen Ross, Drama Movies

  14. American Stage's sparkling Act II begins with 'Tuesdays With Morrie'

    Jun 3, 2009 | St. Petersburg Times

    ... have read the book," Wooten said. And a lot of the people who didn't read the book saw the 1999 TV movie with Jack Lemmon in the title role. (It was Lemmon's last movie, except for an uncredited role as the narrator in The Legend of Bagger Vance .) ...

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  15. Jeff Dunham: Man of many puppetsRead the original story

    Jun 3, 2009 | Des Moines Register

    ... you would get something like Peanut. Just try not to imagine the conception. Walter He's the Walter Matthau/Jack Lemmon comedy 'Grumpy Old Men' distilled into a small piece of felt. He doesn't like Dunham, the audience, or his wife of 46 years. ...

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  16. Local theater critic at workRead the original story w/Photo

    Jun 1, 2009 | Neighbors Go

    ... types with well-defined comic skills.A The "big" role in the play (played by a disgusted and resentful Jack Lemmon in the 1963 movie version) is that of a lecherous San Francisco landlord named Hogan and requires an actor who can tread the fine line ...

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  17. Of Newsprint and Typewriters: 'The Front Page' Recalls a Bygone Era

    May 31, 2009 | Seattle Courant

    ... Wilder. Not only is it relevant, but it's pretty close to brilliant. Released in 1974, ' The Front Page ' stars Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthau in their third collaboration, six years after their onscreen bicker-fest, 'The Odd Couple.' Set in 1920s ...

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    Related Topix: The Front Page, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, The Odd Couple, Journalism, Susan Sarandon

  18. Anthony Lane: a oeThe Incrediblesa and a oeThe Big Red One,a from 2004.Read the original story

    Nov 15, 2004 | New Yorker

    ... our hero's head pokes above an array of cubicled workspaces, was plainly pinched from "The Apartment," in which Jack Lemmon, too, was swallowed by the bureaucratic rat-run. Billy Wilder nailed the sensations of office life once and for all in that ...

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  19. No sunset for this cowboyRead the original story

    Aug 27, 2008 | Canada.com

    ... years ago. As many well-wishers in the lobby remind him, it seems like only yesterday that he was cavorting with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe on-screen - and in the case of the latter, off-screen, too; when he was deemed the most handsome of the ...

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  20. Some Like It Ho

    May 30, 2009 | DigitallyOBSESSED.com

    Published: May 29, 2001 Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon Other Stars: Joe E. Brown, George Raft, Pat O'Brien Director: Billy Wilder Manufacturer: WAMO MPAA Rating: Not Rated for Run Time: 02h:02m:00s Release Date: May 22, 2001 UPC: 027616858993 Genre: comedy DVD Review classic adj.

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