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Thread #35957   Message #494163
Posted By: catspaw49
28-Jun-01 - 03:12 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Jack Lemmon and Joan Sims (June 2001)
Subject: RE: Farewell Jack Lemmon and Joan Sims
Saying Jack Lemmon was an "actor" is like saying Secretariat was a "race horse." Neither term can adequately describe the essence of the soul inside.

From Daphne to Pulver to Felix.........But also from Save the Tiger to Days of Wine and Roses to Glengarry..........How much range and breadth can one actor have? Bad movies were brightened by his character portrayals (like JFK), and if he did a lousy character, then I missed the movie. Maybe there are a half dozen actors at best that I've seen in my lifetime were his equal on camera, but no one was ever better. Helluva' piano player too.............

Karen and I will both shed a few tears over this one.........

Spaw