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  • He was Shelly "The Machine" Levene in David Mamet's blistering GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS on Broadway in 1984 ("I was eating her crumb cake"), in a role that should have gone to him for the 1992 film version (in which higher wattage name Jack Lemmon had the requisite pathos but never quite persuaded as having ever been good at his job).

    Death Notice: Robert Prosky Arbogast 2008

  • Ving Rhames wept openly at winning for best actor in a made-for-TV movie before famously calling Jack Lemmon on stage to hand over his award to him.

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

  • So I’m guessing a kind of Jack Lemmon ‘buddy boy’ from The Apartment but with family/domestic issues keeping him grounded rather than the career ladder in Wilder’s classic?

    Paul Rudd is MY IDIOT BROTHER | Obsessed With Film 2010

  • As various couples bicker and struggle with love, sex, marriage, and alcohol, three friends on a fishing trip (Fred Ward, Buck Henry, and Huey Lewis) find a woman's dead body but decide not to report it, an aging philanderer (Jack Lemmon) confesses his infidelities while his grandson lies comatose after an auto accident, and a birthday-cake baker (Lyle Lovett) seethes with anger over a trivial slight.

    John Farr: Remembering Robert Altman John Farr 2011

  • A New York native, Stern got his start in Hollywood in the '50s writing film screenplays, including Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Jazz Singer and the Jack Lemmon film Three for the Show.

    Leonard Stern, Honeymooners and Get Smart Writer, Dies at 88 2011

  • If Rush were to win, he would be the seventh man to win both lead and supporting actor awards, following in order Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey and Denzel Washington.

    Oscar Predictions: Who Will Win? 2011

  • "Today's union movement is all about giving people a voice in what goes on at work," said Jack Lemmon in an ad from the 1980s that featured a jingle about voting "Yes" for a union.

    Unions Try to Boost Image in New Ads Kris Maher 2012

  • As various couples bicker and struggle with love, sex, marriage, and alcohol, three friends on a fishing trip (Fred Ward, Buck Henry, and Huey Lewis) find a woman's dead body but decide not to report it, an aging philanderer (Jack Lemmon) confesses his infidelities while his grandson lies comatose after an auto accident, and a birthday-cake baker (Lyle Lovett) seethes with anger over a trivial slight.

    John Farr: Remembering Robert Altman John Farr 2011

  • His case would seem to have more in common with those of Bernie Madoff or WorldCom's Scott Sullivan—or Harry Stoner, the Jack Lemmon character who fiddles the books to keep his garment factory afloat in "Save the Tiger."

    A Mortgage 'Big Fish' Disappoints Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • A New York native, Stern got his start in Hollywood in the '50s writing film screenplays, including Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Jazz Singer and the Jack Lemmon film Three for the Show.

    Leonard Stern, Honeymooners and Get Smart Writer, Dies at 88 2011

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