Just watched the new DVD of one of the most cynical movies ever made…The Fortune Cookie, which was written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder. If one is in the right mood for it though, it's brilliantly funny and darn near impossible to turn off. Walter Matthau was never better, and Jack Lemmon was never more Jack Lemmony. The scenes of Matthau, playing an ambulance-chasing attorney, negotiating with a high-priced law firm are about as perfect an example of character comedy as anyone has ever put on celluloid anywhere. The whole film is actually a superb festival of casting. Some of the small supporting roles are especially wonderful.