Jack Lemmon

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q94123: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Save the Tiger (1973); The Player (1992); Cowboy; Days of Wine and Roses; Grumpy Old Men; Out to Sea; That's Life!; The Odd Couple II; Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley notes the Hitchcock-like touches in the rattlesnake and police station scenes.
    “Little Hitchcock homage, I feel like.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Nashville (1975): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Nashville ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley says the tricks Altman uses in The Player, like famous people dropping into a space, are ones he used in Nashville.
    “a lot of the tricks that he's using in the player, I mean, he uses in Nashville, right?”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:32 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
    “Going back to singing in the rain.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales.
    “that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

Touch of Evil (1958): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Touch of Evil ⇒ The Player (the host's read). The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
    “Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Kevin Spacey: 1 line

  1. unmapped (idol) · them, directly: Jack Lemmon ⇒ Kevin Spacey (the host's read). The speaker infers Spacey sees himself as Jack Lemmon, the star he always looked up to.
    “That's the star that he's always looked up to, and now he's going on talk shows and he's doing all his impressions.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:03:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Larry Sanders Show (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read). Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb.
    “Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (9) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Walter Matthau → Jack Lemmon. Matthau and Lemmon made four movies together in the 1990s after earlier decades of pairings.
    “They made 4 movies together in the 90s.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:42:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Jack Lemmon → Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film). Lemmon's sentimental farewell in Tuesdays with Morrie is set against Matthau's rawer final role.
    “Jack Lemon's last performance, basically, was Tuesdays with Mari”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:44:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (idol): Jack Lemmon → Kevin Spacey. The speaker infers Spacey sees himself as Jack Lemmon, the star he always looked up to.
    “That's the star that he's always looked up to, and now he's going on talk shows and he's doing all his impressions.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:03:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.