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Television With No Borders IC (You need the FREE QuickTime plug-in to view) tviNEWS.net "Jack Lemmon" 1925 - 2001 In the early 1990s, Lemmon seemed destined to end his career mainly with cameo roles -- but in 1992, at age 67, he roared back with his critically acclaimed performance in Glengarry Glen Ross, which earned him best actor awards from the Venice Film Festival and the National Board of Review.   By Josie Cory, TVI Magazine Click Any Photo for fast review

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ABOUT JACK LEMMON   JACK LEMMON: Was the only son of John Uhler Lemmon Jr., vice-president of the Doughnut Corp. of America, and Mildred LaRue Lemmon, a part-loving wiseacre who infused a sense of humor into her theatrical-minded son.  FIRST BREAK: In 1948 in a radio soap opera.  BROADWAY DEBUT: In 1953 in Room Service.  FILM DEBUT: George Cukor's It Should Happen To You, starring Judy Holliday.  STAR TURN: At 29 years old in 1955 in John Ford's Mr. Roberts. The deal was sealed with a spit handshake -- each man spit in his palm and then locked hands. Jack was Probably best known as Felix Unger to Walter Matthau's Oscar Madison, these guys really were the original odd couple. In a recent interview, Jack said he wanted to be an actor since he was eight years old growing up in an affluent section of Boston. "I did one line in a play and then I just kept going. I really loved it and that's all I ever dreamed of doing." Lemmon lives in Los Angeles with his wife Felicia, Here's a partial Jack Lemmon filmography: It Should Happen to You (1954) Phffft! (1954) Mister Roberts, My Sister Eileen (1955) The Apartment (1960) Bell, Book and Candle (1958) Wackiest Ship in the Army (1961) Days of Wine and Roses (1962) How to Murder Your Wife (1964) The Fortune Cookie (1966) The Odd Couple (1968) April Fools (1969) The Out-of-Towners (1970) Kotch (1971) Avanti! (1972) Save the Tiger (1973) Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Front Page (1974) Airport '77 (1977) The China Syndrome (1979) Buddy Buddy (1981) Missing (1982) That's Life! (1986) Dad (1989) JFK (1991) For Richer, For Poorer (1992) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Short Cuts (1993) Grumpy Old Men (1993) Grumpier Old Men (1995) Out to Sea (1997) The Odd Couple 2 (1999) Grumpiest Old Men (upcoming). Winning Numbers 1965 - The year the stage production of The Odd Couple opened. 1965 - The year playwright Neil Simon won his first Tony Award, for The Odd Couple (naturally.) 3 - The number of other Tony awards the play won. 966 - The number of performances of The Odd Couple on Broadway. 1968 - The year the film version of The Odd Couple premiered in movie theatres. 14 - The number of consecutive weeks the film The Odd Couple played at Radio City Music Hall, a record that still stands. 5 - The number of forms in which The Odd Couple has appeared on TV or in film. They include the original film, The Odd Couple, in 1968; the TV series, also called The Odd Couple, that ran from 1970 to 1975 and starred Jack Klugman and Tony Randall; The New Odd Couple, a short-lived 1982 TV series based on the Pigeon sisters; The Odd Couple: Together Again, a 1993 TV movie with Klugman and Randall; and The Odd Couple II (opens April 10). 11 - The number of movies Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon have appeared in together. 1 - The number of those movies that Lemmon directed. (1971's Kotch.) 0 - The number of those movies Matthau directed. 1 - The number of those movies directed by Matthau's son, Charlie (1995s The Grass Harp). 2 - The number of Oscars Lemmon has won (best actor for 1973s Save the Tiger and best supporting actor for 1956s Mister Roberts.). 1 - The number of Oscars Matthau has won (best supporting actor for 1966s The Fortune Cookie, also the first film the two starred in together.). 1 - The number of Genie awards - Canada's Oscars - won by the pair. Lemmon took the best foreign actor prize for 1980s Tribute.. 150 - Matthau and Lemmon's combined ages.  January 29, 1996 Respectfully, Josie Cory, Publisher, Editor TVI Magazine MORE  A New Way To Advertise - Our 24-hour, 365 days-a-year smart90 number -can be your portal to the web to introduce your movies to the world -- on LookRadio.com Advertise Now - Send your insertion orders and advertising copy or requests to the attention of Bernie Schwartz, Advertising Sales Director, at tvi@Smart90.©om™ Accompanying slides, transparencies, illustrations, photographs, or other computer graphic art and/or complete separations, can be E-mailed to our art department, if you wish. Any items mailed will be returned or forwarded. Advertising material must be received by the 10th of every other month to be included in the following issue. Return to Top

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