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DECEMBER 22–29, 2021
ON THE SCREEN
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Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray star in the 1960 movie “The Apartment.”
Shut up and deal
for a New Year’s Eve
tradition – movie-wise
‘The Apartment’ is a great way
to ring in the new year
WHAT’S PLAYING
IN THE THEATER
By Cheryl Hoefler
GO! Magazine
W
e all have our favorite Christmas movies, but do
you have a New Year’s Eve one?
“The Apartment” (1960) has been my personal New
Year’s Eve tradition for as long as I can remember, and
well, my favorite movie period. More than that, it’s an
event unto itself — holiday-wise.
I first fell in love with the movie’s theme song, “Jealous
Lover,” when I heard it on a radio station in the San Fran-
cisco area while in college (so, a really long time ago).
Once I discovered the movie, there was no looking back.
The story takes place from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, and is
mostly a romance, with a good guy-bad guy twist. The
good guy is C.C. “Bud” Baxter (Jack Lemmon), a kind-
hearted, mild-mannered (and single) clerk with New York
City’s Consolidated Life. The bad guy is Baxter’s boss,
Jeff Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), a ruthless exec (and
married womanizer) at the same insurance company.