Walter Matthau News
Batter Up! It's Blueberry Pancake Day
"World News Now" celebrates National Blueberry Pancake Day.
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'Cat Daddy' Calms Finicky Felines… night vision camera set up. And this is his twin brother But then there is ruby she bears a striking resemblance to Walter Matthau she will steal the food right out of your report. And she does not like at all. Which is why I called in this guy …
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Brad Pitt's 'Moneyball' Aims to Join Other Great Baseball Films… Ochs Archives/Getty Images Jackie Earle Haley, "Bad News Bears" When a washed-up ex-minor leaguer played by Walter Matthau is recruited to coach a bunch of misfits, including a young Tatum O'Neal, he seeks out the best athlete in town …
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Child Stars: Where Are They Now?… marine biology major eighteen years ago was playing America's favorite tow headed troublemaker. Mason gamble says Walter Matthau always looked out for his six year old self while they shop that John Hughes written Dennis the Menace movie. As …
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Coalition of The (un)Willing: Can Obama and GOP Leaders Find Compromise on Debt Ceiling? (The Note)
… and head of the Comeback America Initiative. He has compared the debt ceiling debate to the classic Henry Fonda / Walter Matthau nuke flick “Fail-Safe” in which a mistake sends the U.S. and Russia hurtling toward nuclear war …
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Goodbye, Rue McClanahan: The Life and Times of the 'Golden Girls'… Girls," launched her to stardom. After the show was canceled in 1992, McClanahan appeared in the Jack Lemmon- Walter Matthau movie "Out to Sea" and as a teacher in the satirical sci-fi film "Starship Troopers." She also played "Madame …
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Aliens, Bank Robbers and Bruno, Oh My!
… Travolta and Denzel Washington recreate the classic action movie from the 70s, updated for today. Denzel plays the Walter Matthau character, and Travolta is the Robert Shaw character. Bad guys hijack a subway and a hostage negotiator deals with …
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Hotels on the Big Screen
… Plaza Suite Comedy/drama, 1971. Neil Simon comedy about life in a hotel suite at New York's Plaza Hotel. Walter Matthau plays three roles: an inattentive husband, a brash movie producer and a father-of-the bride. A Room With A …
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Anger: Myths and Management
… of big screen depictions of cranky seniors, like "Grumpy Old Men" and the sequel "Grumpier Old Men," starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon as irritable curmudgeons. That's the third anger myth: "The older you get, the more angry you …
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Ben Stiller Heads to the Tropic… father took him to the set of 1974's "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three," where his father filmed a scene with Walter Matthau over and over again. "I saw the movie, and the scene was maybe eight seconds in the movie," he said. "I was …
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Hotels make super settings for memorable movies
… Plaza Suite Comedy/drama, 1971. Neil Simon comedy about life in a hotel suite at New York's Plaza Hotel. Walter Matthau plays three roles: an inattentive husband, a brash movie producer and a father-of-the bride. A Room With A …
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Millions in Malibu Real Estate Goes Up in Smoke
… Hawn and Kurt Russell, Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli, and Mel Gibson. And former stars Frank Sinatra, Walter Matthau , Jack Lemmon and Carroll O'Connor. Malibu has a long history of providing a playground for Hollywood stars. From …
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Holiday DVDs: Stocking Stuffers and Lumps of Coal
… the new "Don't Call Me Shirley" widescreen edition. Just one of the silliest movies ever. Bad News Bears: The Walter Matthau version: Si! The Billy Bob Thornton version: No! Classic TV Collections Some of the hottest selling DVDs are TV …
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Billy Bob's Unorthodox Guide to Parenting
… opening today, he's back, taking on the role Walter Matthau originated as -- you guessed it -- a drunken, depraved ..... come up with something new. "I'm a big fan of Walter Matthau and the original movie, so I would never even pretend …
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Johansson Finds Winning Ticket in 'The Island'
… original. You'll see the same beer-guzzling, acid-tongued coach, this time played by Billy Bob Thornton. In the Walter Matthau original, there was something funny and, yes, innocent about the kids spouting four-letter words. But the coach …
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When Celebrity Jocks Run 'The Longest Yard'
… backstop, brought in a marquee scoreboard and built a grandstand at the community park in Chatsworth. It was there that Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal led a team of misfits, if not to victory, at least to a little self-respect. After the film …
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Jack Black Draws on AC/DC in 'School of Rock'
… Bears, and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids. "He wasn't taking it easy on them. He was treating them like people …
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George Will: Rumsfeld Is a Leader
… symbol the thinking person's George Clooney. Now, Rumsfeld is 70, and supposedly has become a grumpy old man Walter Matthau goes to war. Rumsfeld sometimes rejects written reports from subordinates, sends the reports back to their authors …
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Book Excerpt: 'The Punch'
… Houston players was telling him. Still dazed, Tomjanovich sat up just a little bit, and the first person he saw was Walter Matthau , the actor, who was sitting in a front-row seat. He repeated his original question. "What happened, Trick …
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Hawn, Hudson: 'We're Not Bangers'
… Martin's Laugh-In.. At 24, she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Cactus Flower, a 1969 comedy starring Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman. Over the years, her work on such hits as The Sugarland Express, Shampoo, Private Benjamin …
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Joel Siegel's List of Best New DVD Releases
… Screen Tests: A look back at Hollywood screen tests includes Dustin Hoffman testing for his role in The Graduate, and Walter Matthau testing for the The Seven Year Itch. (Matthau didn't get the part.) 7. Panic Room: Starring Jodie Foster …
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Showbiz Commentary: Heidi Oringer
… show their stuff at the most prestigious music event of the year. It was, as my grandmother used to say after a Walter Matthau /Jack Lemmon movie, "vary, vary enta-taining." What Was Missing? The problem wasn't the musical performances …
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Preview -- World News Tonight 06/28/01
… Tiger as he was in raucous comedy playing a man dressing up as a woman in Some Like It Hot or as Felix Unger opposite Walter Matthau 's Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple. Lemmon and Matthau teamed up again late in their careers in Grumpy Old Men …
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Jack Lemmon Dead at 76
… Tiger. But for future generations of movie-goers, it will no doubt be his tension-rife on-screen pairing with Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple that will live forever in the annals of cinematic history. Although off-screen, the two thespians …
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Lemmon Recovering From Surgery
… acting Oscars for Mister Roberts and for Save the Tiger. He had landmark roles alongside his good friend, the late Walter Matthau , including The Odd Couple, Buddy Buddy, The Fortune Cookie, and Grumpy Old Men.
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Lemmon Recovering From Surgery
… acting Oscars for Mister Roberts and for Save the Tiger. He had landmark roles alongside his good friend, the late Walter Matthau , including The Odd Couple, Buddy Buddy, The Fortune Cookie, and Grumpy Old Men.
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Lemmon Recovering From Surgery
… acting Oscars for Mister Roberts and for Save the Tiger. He had landmark roles alongside his good friend, the late Walter Matthau , including The Odd Couple, Buddy Buddy, The Fortune Cookie, and Grumpy Old Men.
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Lemmon Recovering From Surgery
… acting Oscars for Mister Roberts and for Save the Tiger. He had landmark roles alongside his good friend, the late Walter Matthau , including The Odd Couple, Buddy Buddy, The Fortune Cookie, and Grumpy Old Men.
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Lemmon Recovering From Surgery
… acting Oscars for Mister Roberts and for Save the Tiger. He had landmark roles alongside his good friend, the late Walter Matthau , including The Odd Couple, Buddy Buddy, The Fortune Cookie, and Grumpy Old Men.
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Do you have a little Dennis the Menace of your own?
… interview. As he looks back on his 50 year career, Ketcham recounts memories of good friends Charles Schultz and Walter Matthau , who portrayed Mr. Wilson in 1993 film of the famed comic strip. Parents and children should arrive at 6:15 a …
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Jack Lemmon Hospitalized
… Army Archerd. Lemmon's rep did not return calls. The actor most recently voiced the part of Old Hardy Greaves in The Legend of Bagger Vance and has appeared in numerous films with his lifelong Odd Couple chum, the late Walter Matthau .
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Jack Lemmon Hospitalized
… Army Archerd. Lemmon's rep did not return calls. The actor most recently voiced the part of Old Hardy Greaves in The Legend of Bagger Vance and has appeared in numerous films with his lifelong Odd Couple chum, the late Walter Matthau .
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500 Hollywood Insiders Tribute Matthau
Five hundred Hollywood insiders packed the Directors Guild theater Sunday for a memorial to Walter Matthau , which turned out to be as much a laugh fest as a Friars Club roast. The tone was set by an invitation that specified cheerful …
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Show Business Commentary: Heidi Oringer
Walter Matthau is dead, but Luther Vandross is NOT. We at ABC received several confirmations regarding both before we released a story on either …