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Turner Classic Movies, 2:45 p.m., Saturday, March 2
TCM is finishing off their annual 31 Days of Oscar, and March 2, they’re playing one of the great underwatched gems of the ‘60s, The Apartment. It stars Jack Lemmon as a milquetoast corporate drone who is forced to loan out his pad to his co-workers, who use it for their extramarital trysts.
One of the girls is a young Shirley MacLaine. He falls in love. This is a bittersweet comedy, and simply perfect; one of Billy Wilder’s best, which is saying a lot. Lemmon and MacLaine are both brilliant, and without this movie, there would be no Mad Men.
