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Entries by John Farr from 02/2013

For His Birthday, the Best of Oscar Winner Jack Lemmon

| Posted 02.05.2013
Read More: Jack Lemmon, The Days of Wine and Roses, The Apartment, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Odd Couple, Some Like It Hot, Mister Roberts, The China Syndrome, Missing, News

Jack Lemmon, who would have turned 88 this Friday, had a habit of saying to himself before every take: "It's magic time." This may strike some as mildly eccentric, but then for the most part, magic is precisely what he went on to create.

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How Oscar Lost Its Sense of Humor -- and 20 Comedies Worthy of Best Picture

| Posted 02.19.2013
Read More: Academy Awards, Bringing Up Baby, Airplane, Being John Malkovich, Animal House, The-Bank-Dick, The Odd Couple, Some Like It Hot, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lady Eve, Young Frankenstein, Modern Times, Harold and Maude, His Girl Friday, Duck Soup, This Is Spinal Tap, Love and Death, Sullivan's Travels, Adam's Rib, Dazed & Confused, The Big Lebowski, News

Is this oversight wholly the fault of the Academy? Who else, unless we all agree it's somehow natural or fitting for great comedies to be treated like the second-class citizens of cinema.

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