Of course he co-wrote it, that's almost not worth even saying. It has all the perfect clockwork of any other great Wilder-Diamond screenplay.
It was an odd day, otherwise. We were suffering from Gilmore Girls withdrawal and started the new Sherman-Palladino thing Etoile and couldn't even finish it. Then we saw an episode of Lina Dunham's Too Much which was quite a downer. While all this was going on, Alcaraz lost the Wimbledon final, and we spent several hours reliving Live Aid. The Fortune Cookie is like the solid rock in the centre of it all.
And although it's notable as being the first teaming of Lemmon and Matthau (and he won the Oscar), it is also very capably performed by Ron Rich, Judi West and Cliff Osmond.
"In the old days we used to do these things better. A man says he's paralysed, we simply throw him in the snake pit. If he climbs out, then we know he's lying."
"And if he doesn't climb out?"
"Then we have lost a patient, but we have found an honest man."
Photographed by Joseph LaShelle. Music by Andre Previn, production design Robert Luthardt. Editor Daniel Mandell.
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