The Independent - London, August 25th, 2001
ALTHOUGH THE veteran comedian Dave Barry once admitted, "I've never become a major attraction", one of his few films was last week voted the best ever American screen comedy. In Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959) Barry played Beinstock, the balding, owlish manager of the all-girl band Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopaters.
"Can't understand it," he tells Daphne (Jack Lemmon) and Josephine (Tony Curtis), "first my glasses disappear, then one of my suitcases!" Soon, in poor Beinstock's stolen glasses, yachting cap and navy style blazer, Curtis is wooing the band's luscious vocalist, Sugar K...
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