# Latest celebrity obit -- Jack Lemmon **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446 "2001-06-28T11:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/1 "2001-06-28T11:40:39Z")
[Details](http://movies.yahoo.com/fc/YMovies/Jack_Lemmon/). ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/2 "2001-06-28T11:45:14Z")
That’s a shame. I liked Jack Lemmon. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/3 "2001-06-28T11:48:50Z")
Wow… Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau within such a short time… He will never be forgotten - to me, he will forever be Professor Fate, who made me laugh so many times. RIP ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/4 "2001-06-28T12:47:36Z")
What an awful week—Jack Lemmon; my favorite author, Tove Jansson; poor Barbara Eden’s son; French actress Corinne Calvet; and now that dreadful business about Paula Poundstone, which I hope is not true . . . Somewhere, Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn are hiding under their beds . . . ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/5 "2001-06-28T13:06:57Z")
What awful business with Paula Poundstone? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/6 "2001-06-28T13:55:11Z")
**Otto** Paula was just arrested and charged with ‘lewd acts’ with a female child under 14, and two other charges of neglect/harm to a child. details can be found in the news links in this other thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1405481#post1405481) On the OP - sad to see old Jack go. He was a classy guy. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/7 "2001-06-28T14:09:41Z")
Thing about Jack Lemmon is, they’ve listed the cause of death as “complications” from cancer. Nothing more specific. Now, I understand those “complications” are probably messy, unpleasant things best left private, but when someone dies of cancer we’re usually told what kind of cancer. Does anyone know? Dreadful business about Paula Poundstone, to be sure. I wonder what the evidence is? I wonder what evidence they _could_ have, other than testimoney from the children concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/8 "2001-06-28T14:20:37Z")
Damn. I didn’t even know until I saw this thread. I loved all those movies with Walter Matthau, but my favorite Jack lemmon role was Ensign Pulver in _Mister Roberts_. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/9 "2001-06-28T14:39:01Z")
He’ll certainly be missed. Someone mentioned Professor Fate - I just happened to have watched “The Great Race” last weekend. Professor Fate and his other role as the brandy-swilling, pug-kissing royal are a treat. The best pie fight ever. I also have “The Apartment” and “Some Like It Hot” on tape and will now have to watch them again - sort of a Jack Lemmon tribute film festival. “Days of Wine and Roses” is in my cabinet as well but that one cuts too close to home and is very difficult for me to watch. Maybe at some point a little later. If you haven’t seen him in “Missing” you should try and catch it. Lemmon is perfect in it. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/10 "2001-06-28T16:40:48Z")
I heard about Jack Lemmon over breakfast this morning. He was one of my all-time favorites. It’s amazing how many good/great [movies](http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/A100/1009047.iHtml) he was in. I’m gonna miss him. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-celebrity-obit-jack-lemmon/70446/11 "2001-06-28T17:54:25Z")
Wow, this is really, really sad news. ☹ When I saw the thread title, I just thought to myself, “No, not _that_ Jack Lemmon.” (Like there are at least a dozen famous men with the name.) Everytime I think of him, I think of his stunning performance in **Glengarry Glen Ross** that made me cry. He was an amazing actor.