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We were sitting around a table,
seven journalists, including me,
and Walter Matthau. We were
there to discuss Walter's new
movie, Out To Sea. Matthau had
been staring at me for a few min-
utes, when suddenly, interrupt-
ing questions about the film, the
76-year-old actor said, "I swear to
God, you just gave me a terrific
chill. You look exactly like my
mother as a young woman."
"Was she pretty?" I asked. "Yes,
very." He went on. "She was only
14 when she arrived in New York
from Lithuania; she didn't speak
English. My name was Velvl, and
my mother wanted to give me an
American name. So she asked a
girlfriend, What's Velvl in Eng-
lish?' Her friend answered,
William.' She didn't like it. War-
ren.' No. But when her friend said,
Walter,' that was it."
"Can we get back to talking
about the movie?" asked one out-
of-towner.
In their latest comedy,
Matthau and Jack Lemmon play
dance hosts aboard The Wester-
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I asked Matthau if he had ever
been on a cruise ship before the
movie. "No, Mom, never! I hate
ships." Ships make him sick. To
do the movie, "I had to take Dra-
mamine and a lot of other ...
mines, and I always wore those
wristbands. You know, I think it
was the Dopamine that worked!"
Matthau, in a tailored suit,
sans tie and makeup, looks and
walks exactly as he does on
screen. He has some trouble hear-
ing and his hands visibly shake,
though that's not apparently a big
problem. "I've never been able to
keep my hands to myself."
Matthau and Lemmon have
been working together for 30
years. What makes the team
work?
"Well, I suppose it's because
Jack is short and ugly and I'm tall
and handsome. You know, oppo-
sites. Also I can't get a job with-
out him."
Matthau said he foresaw a per-
manent partnership when he first
met Matthau at a deli. "Jack or-
dered fried shrimp and a choco-
late frappe; I ordered matzah ball
soup and corned beef."
Matthew had to leave. He was
starting his next film — a sequel
to The Odd Couple with Jack
Lemmon — in a few days.
He needed some help getting
out of his chair, and I rushed to
his side to give him a lift. Then I
kissed him on the cheek. "Gosh,"
he said, "you even kiss like my
mother." 0
Marilyn Zeitlin is a California-
based freelance writer.