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...aged, Lemmon found inspiration in the works of "serious" authors--John Osborne (a TV version of The Entertainer), David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), Raymond Carver (Short Cuts)--writers with the bilious comic flow of a Wilder, but with no happy ending as a reward for all that suffering. In Glengarry Glen Ross, Lemmon is Shelley Levene, a peddler of diseased land and phony hopes, and a failure not because of scruples but because the system he serves is stacked against...
DIED. JACK LEMMON, 76, one of Hollywood's most accomplished and likable comic actors, who showed his range in dramatic roles and won two Academy Awards; of cancer-related complications; in Los Angeles (see Appreciation, page...
...brought him such instant recognition. But one of his more intriguing aspects has been his refusal to tailor his work to anyone else's expectations. Within a decade of the delicate Jamesian fiction in Goodbye, Columbus, Roth wrote Portnoy's Complaint, a barbaric yawp of masturbatory misadventures and comic rage...
...could say there hasn't been such a soft-sell comic presence since Wally Cox, but the comparison would be too facile. There's nothing mousy about Stewart. The difference between most comic hosts and Stewart is the difference between a brassy sitcom and The Larry Sanders Show--for which, in fact, he was a writer and actor...
Then again, Rock may be one of this project's more controversial selections. Just last month, The New Republic devoted 4,000 words to explain why he and fellow African-American comic Chris Tucker were "reactionary" and to decry Rock's "reliance upon minstrelsy and coon comedy." The criticism echoes a frequent complaint that Rock's politically incorrect humor gives cover to racists--most infamously his "Niggas vs. Black People" routine from the Bring the Pain HBO special that helped revive his career in 1996 after three years in the wilderness that followed his underutilized tenure on Saturday Night Live...