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Written by James M. Tate / 3/09/2019 / No comments / blake edwards , bruce willis , comedy , eighties , fifties , jack lemmon , james garner , john ritter , lee remick , malcolm mcdowell , romantic comedy , sixties , thriller , TV , william holden

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WALTER MATTHAU IS 'KOTCH' W/ DEBORAH WINTERS INTERVIEW

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One of the best Walter Matthau/Jack Lemmon collaborations, and they’re not even in the movie together. Instead, Lemmon’s behind the camera in his first and only directorial project: a quirky comedy-drama starring Matthau as an old man named Kotcher i.e. Kotch, who has little importance to the world. His son, a successful businessman, provides his dad one benefit greater than a place to sleep and listen to giant headphones.<br />
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Kotch spends time babysitting his two-year old grandson, Duncan, but no longer alone. His son and irritated daughter-in-law hire a babysitter, Erica, a preoccupied teenager and Kotch isn’t pleased.<br />
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Erica, played by the lovely and talented Deborah Winters (who stole scenes as Eli Wallach’s rebellious, drug-taking, loser-loving hippie daughter in the riveting counter-culture classic THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR, and would later be hired by the director of the cult classic BLUE SUNSHINE for having worked with Matthau so wonderfully) is really no different than most flaky teens. Fooling around with her boyfriend while babysitting Duncan, Kotch gets Erica fired. But he’s no longer wanted around the house and is sent to be "interviewed" for a retirement home.<br />
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The film really begins after Kotch goes his own way – taking to the road after making amends with Erica who, now pregnant and living in Palm Springs, needs a place to stay.<br />
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So while Matthau, hair dyed white as a man twenty years older with a delightfully rambling persona (he loves to talk and no one wants to listen), is the heart of the film, Deborah Winters provides the soul. Their friendship is natural and takes it’s time without being corny.<br />
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Winters doesn’t play for the camera or try to tug emotions like in many feel-good flicks. She portrays a determined young person the way they really are: with a one-track mind to remain on her own path, right or wrong; and her character-arc isn’t forced or overwhelming.<br />
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One line by Matthau is delivered in a world-weary yet charming, affable manner when Winters points out her friends have sex all the time and she only did once, and got pregnant, and he says, "That's baseball" in a labor-of-love that, by all means, is not perfect as a few scenes drag and some of the dialogue feel stagey. But whenever odd couple Matthau and Winters share the screen, learning through each other’s contrary personalities, KOTCH really works. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Lemmon's labor-of-love KOTCH Interview with lovely and talented actress Deborah Winters</u></td></tr>
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<i>In the early seventies, a young, beautiful, talented actress named DEBORAH WINTERS starred alongside Walter Matthau in KOTCH, directed by Jack Lemmon, after she had proved her worth as Eli Wallach's rebellious daughter in THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR... </i><br />
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<i>KOTCH centers on an old man who, ostracized by his family, befriends a pregnant babysitter and helps her... while she helps him... cope with everyday life...</i><br />
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<u>DEBORAH WINTERS</u>: I
  went in and read for Jack Lemmon: this is the only picture that Jack  
directed. You know, actors don’t usually end up liking to direct and the
  reason is it's extremely difficult to direct a picture. It’s very, 
very  hard work and the work begins before you’re filming, and then of 
course  during filming, and it’s long after filming: doing all the 
editing and  post-production…<br />
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It’s  too much work. They
 like to go in and memorize some dialog for the  day’s shoot… The 
make-up man and the hairdresser makes them up and makes  them look good,
 and then they shoot for one day and they go home, and  when the 
picture’s over they relax.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Deborah Winters</u></td></tr>
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It
  took Jack six years to get this film finally made… And I came in, of  
course, more on the tail end of it. Nobody would give him the money and 
 he really loved the story and thought it should be made. So he kept  
working on it and working on it...<br />
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And it was something
  where I went in to audition and Jack felt I really understood "Erica  
Herzenstiel," and I was the one he wanted from the very beginning... It 
 was a great compliment and I loved working with both of them. They were
  fantastic men, and characters, and very funny together.<br />
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Jack
  used to talk to me privately, and say, “You know I can’t tell Walt 
what  to do. You know when he hasn't done the scene right. You make a 
mistake  and I’ll have to yell cut and then it won’t be me, it’ll be 
you… You do  that for me, okay?” He used to call me “Debs” and I’d say, 
“Okay,  okay.” So then I would know when Walter got off track, or he 
would  ad-lib too much… And I’d make a mistake and we’d have to start 
over.<br />
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Walter
  told me one time after he was nominated for the Academy Award, and the
  song was nominated as well...<br />
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And I met him one day and he said, 
“Deborah,  you should have been nominated too.” And I said, “Oh no,” you
 know… And  he said, “No, you really should have been. The reason you 
weren’t  nominated was they thought you were that girl. They didn’t 
realize you  were doing an acting job.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Walter Matthau and Deborah Winters in a KOTCH lobby card</u></td></tr>
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WALTER MATTHAU IS 'KOTCH' W/ DEBORAH WINTERS INTERVIEW

year: 1971 cast: Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Ellen Geer, Larry Linville rating: ***1/2 One of the bes...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/17/2012 / No comments / comedy , dyan cannon , jack lemmon , nineties , sequel , team-up , walter matthau

LEMMON & MATTHAU MATCHUP: OUT TO SEA SINKS ODD COUPLE 2

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The one thing they had in common was Herb’s wife – Charlie’s sister. And Charlie thinks his friend has to move on so he books them both on a luxury liner. There’s a catch: both will work as “dance hosts” to entertain rich old ladies. Perfect for Charlie who’s always ready to swindle – and Dyan Cannon is a likely candidate.  Herb has his sites on another lady but he can’t let go of the past. And although their ages are showing (Matthau’s way too old for Cannon and Lemmon seems a bit tired throughout), both make a fine pair. Although this is really Matthau’s film: his con-man tactics are far more involving than Lemmon’s sultry apprehension, but it’s Brent Spiner… Data from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION… who really steals the show. Playing the prissy cruise director running the dance hosts with an iron fist, he also hits the stage with cheesy renditions of lounge tunes – that’s when he’s not chewing out the minions including Hal Linden and Donald O’Connor. Spiner’s character is so fun to hate, the characters have to constantly remind us how bad he is: just in case we forget. And although the ending gets a bit convoluted – everyone splitting apart till they land back together again – this is a fun trip with two legendary icons that should have called it quits at sea. </i><br>
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comedy, dyan cannon, jack lemmon, nineties, sequel, team-up, walter matthau