Waddling around on feet that by all rights ought to be webbed, Oscar Madison is the slop-happiest hero in history. In midsummer, Christmas stockings still hang over his hearth, and his refrigerator is ...

“Jack Lemmon is iconic and Walter Matthau plays off of him hilariously,” he went on to say. “The emotional pitch of the couple and the movie in general is balanced right between genuine and believable ...

A New Yorker newly separated from his wife moves in with his best friend, a divorced sportswriter, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day. 9pm Saturday The ...

Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor, comedian and film director. He is best known for his film roles in A Face in the Crowd (1957), King ...

There have been many incarnations of The Odd Couple’s oafish Oscar and the fastidious Felix, both on stage and on screen. But the version of the 1965 play most people would be familiar with is the ...

After Dirty Harry, director Don Siegel made another gritty neo-noir that failed to find the same audience, but soon developed ...

Playwright Neil Simon (Barefoot in the Park)— at a cocktail party two years ago when he spotted just the guy he had been looking for. He walked over and announced: “You’re gonna be in my next play.” ...