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Article: Nobody's Perfect, But Some Get Close: Jack Lemmon, Feb. 8, 1925-June 27, 2001.(Arts and Entertainment)(Obituary)
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- Newsweek
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- July 9, 2001
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There are movie stars we love because they, unlike us mortals, never break a sweat. And then there are the stars we love because they do our sweating for us. Jack Lemmon, one of the finest, funniest and most popular movie actors of the second half of the last century, was the uncoolest of icons. He squirmed for our sins. A middle-class Everyman forever tugging at his collar, his shoulders hunched in anticipation of a bashing from above, his ingratiating smile more nervous query than expression of pleasure, Lemmon was the personification of the beleaguered, white-collar American male, compromised but lovable. Whether as the hypochondriac fussbudget Felix in Neil Simon's ...
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