Talk:Jack Lemmon
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[edit] Removed
In a career spanning five decades, Lemmon carved himself a niche as cinema's neurotic everyman, and as one of the most versatile actors of his--or any--generation. Equally at home in comedy and drama, he had a unique combination of intensity and vulnerability that could break your heart one minute, and have you doubled up with laughter the next. Whether he was clearing his sinuses as Felix Unger in The Odd Couple, or clearing his desk as the slumping salesman Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross, Lemmon committed himself totally to his roles.
The only word that might be able to be used in a NPOV sentence is "neurotic", though I haven't seen enough of his movies to really know... the rest is true and very nice and all, but not encyclopedic. Tokerboy
- I liked the ideas expressed in the "Removed" section above and tried to rewrite the paragraph in a more suitable way and then add it back to the end of the Lemmon article. Obviously, if others think it still does not work, they can remove it again.
Andrew Szanton 4/06
[edit] Date of Death?
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- It is stated that he died on the 27 and 28 of 2001.
Which is true? :Alrasheedan
[edit] The Long Way Home
Error to one of the links: The link for his TV movie titled "The Long Way Home" is not correct. The Wikipedia link is to a movie about WWII and Nazi. However, Jack Lemmon's TV movie, under the same name and which was made in 1998, is about a retired cabinet maker(Jack Lemmon), who travels across the USA from Kansas to California to visit his old sweetheart, Veronica (played by Betty Garrett). He travelled by hitchhiking with a young girl named Leanne Bossert (played by Sarah Paulson). I saw this movie on TV a few years ago, but it never returned to the TV screen. However, I managed to buy a copy of the DVD a few days ago, to my surprise and delight. The DVD was produced by Platinum Disc LLC, La Crosse, WI (2005). --64.201.181.86 05:00, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing this out! The link to The Long Way Home now points to a disambiguation page for the term "Long Way Home". The "dab" (disambiguation) page now has a reference to the 1998 made-for-TV film. As far as I know, we do not yet have an article on the 1998 film, although I did not do an extensive search. Lini 13:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
