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  Soka Gakkai International : Buddhism > Recent Events > Archive 2006
On March 23, European Academy of Sciences and Arts President and a world-renowned cardiologist Felix Unger lectured on "Medicine and the Future of Mankind" at an Institute of Oriental Philosophy (IOP) symposium held at the Nihon Seinenkan in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.
Unger reported on dynamic advances in the medical field, represented by genetic engineering that has spurred the development of medical technology.
Unger expressed alarm at prevailing attitudes that underlie technological advances in medicine in which patients have been dehumanized as mere objects of medical treatment.
www.sgi.org /buddhism/recent-event/2006/events060324.html   (220 words)

  
  Felix Unger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Felix Unger was a main character in The Odd Couple, a play, movie and television series.
Felix is a commercial photographer and a neurotic neat freak.
Felix was played in the play by Art Carney, in the movie by Jack Lemmon and in the TV series by Tony Randall.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Felix_Unger   (118 words)

  
 Felix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Felix (Latin for "happy, prosperous") is the name of many different individuals, both real and fictional.
Felix was part of many Roman emperors' titles as a cognomen since Commodus had chosen this name as part of his title.
Felix Potvin - NHL Goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Felix   (305 words)

  
 The Odd Couple (a Titles and Air Dates Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Janis Hansen as Gloria Unger [ 2-5 ]
Pamelyn Ferdin as Edna Unger [ 1-2 ]
Doney Oatman as Edna Unger [ 3-5 ]
epguides.com /OddCouple   (1296 words)

  
 The Odd Couple - The Episode Guide Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Felix volunteers Oscar to be a big brother to a boy in reform school, but he gets upset when the boy asks out his daughter Edna.
Felix joins the police reserves, but it soon turns into a case of the boy who cried wolf when a burglar gets in their apartment building.
Felix tries to convince Oscar that the citizens of New York City are good people at heart; he gets a chance to prove his point when they get stuck on a subway.
www.memorabletv.com /episodeguides/oddcouple.htm   (2250 words)

  
 The Odd Couple - Characters
Felix can't stand the sight of his bedroom, because the regular decor includes clothes all over the floor and on his bed, food that is several days old, and cigar butts.
Felix is a commercial photographer (portraits a specialty) and a neurotic neat freak.
Miriam lives upstairs from Oscar and Felix, and is Felix's semi-steady girlfriend during the latter half of the series.
www.oddcouple.info /characters.html   (918 words)

  
 Mesabi Daily News - Virginia, MN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Felix Unger, a man obsessed with cleanliness and humorously imprisoned by his own paranoia and worry about, well, anything and everything.
If they were directing "The Odd Couple" on that night there wouldn't have been a Felix character driving the Oscar character nuts with his annoying clearing of his sinuses or patrolling the poker table to make sure each can of beer of mixed drink was on a coaster.
It was the vulnerable Lemmon as Felix who won the hearts of the Bird sisters in "The Odd Couple" in 1968.
www.virginiamn.com /placed/index.php?story_id=76827   (563 words)

  
 The Odd Couple: The First Season (Paramount / CBS) | DVD Reviews and More
It is interesting to note that in both the play and the film, Felix's last name is Ungar, while in the TV sitcom is Unger.
Oscar and Felix are two divorced men that share an apartment as roommates.
felix unger, jack klugman, walter matthau, this means that, martin balsam
www.dvdreviewsandmore.com /?p=231   (538 words)

  
 News-Register.com
Felix loved stretching out so humans could rub his white belly, while Oscar preferred having her back scratched.
Or Felix would play his favorite game: running through the living room and vaulting onto a chair, then riding it while it rocked wildly.
Sometimes, Felix and Oscar would wrestle, the way they did when they were kittens.
www.newsregister.com /news/story.cfm?story_no=206944   (484 words)

  
 Odd Couple Tickets chicagogigs.com Odd Couple Upcomming Schedule Odd Couple Information Feature Odd Couple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
With Nathan Lane as super-slob sportswriter Oscar Madison and Matthew Broderick as nudnik neatnik Felix Unger, the comic potential of one of Neil Simon's most popular comedies is unlimited.
The Play: If you know the TV sitcom, you know the set-up of 'The Odd Couple.' Felix Unger, a photographer fastidious to a fault, is being divorced by his wife.
Felix tells Oscar to "take a couple of Prozacs'' (an antidepressant not in common use 36 years ago), and Oscar grumbles about being "cooped up here with Martha Stewart 24 hours a day.'' Things like that fit.
www.chicagogigs.com /theater/odd-couple-tickets.htm   (550 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Tony Randall, Bright, Zestful And Always Endearing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Felix Unger was Randall's most familiar role, but in its day, Sidney Shorr was his most controversial.
Even though he didn't especially like being known as Felix Unger, "The Odd Couple" did so well in syndication (better than in its network first run) that the character would haunt him forever.
Sometimes an actor, sometimes an impresario, sometimes an opera buff and often a talk-show guest, Randall also fits into that peculiar category called, for lack of anything more descriptive, "television personality." He was hardly ever off television for very long, and in all his incarnations on TV he overflowed with personality.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A38144-2004May18?language=printer   (1131 words)

  
 THE ODD COUPLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Once everyone calms down, it becomes clear Felix just wants to be alone to process the new direction his life has suddenly taken.
However, Felix is unwilling to bend, turning Oscar's comfortable, if filthy home into a monument of cleanliness.
Felix is angry at first, but he lands in a wonderful place no one could have expected, especially him.
crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsO/f_odd_couple.html   (783 words)

  
 The Odd Couple: Felix is Missing - TV.com
Felix goes missing, and Oscar thinks his buddy is dead.
After not hearing from Felix Oscar fears that Felix is missing.
Felix gets Snowbond while on a job, with Ruddy (Albert Brooks)and a beautiful model, while Oscar and the poker buddies look for him in NY, and Oscar becomes a suspect, when the poker buddies tell the cops of some of the times he threatened Felix's life.
www.tv.com /odd-couple/felix-is-missing/episode/92558/summary.html   (233 words)

  
 The Odd Couple's sexual ambiguity. By Dana Stevens
Felix, we hardly knew yeThree days ago, actor Tony Randall died of pneumonia and complications of heart surgery in New York at the age of 84.
Though he had a long and impressive stage and screen career, Randall is best remembered in the cultural imagination as Felix Unger, the uptight, obsessively tidy roommate of slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison (played by Jack Klugman) on The Odd Couple, the ABC series that ran from 1970 through 1975.
Oscar and Felix were a couple whose "oddness" had less to do with their differing approach to laundering clothes (Felix: send to drycleaner.
www.slate.com /id/2100901   (864 words)

  
 The Odd Couple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
when felix ran across the hotel suite in his morning coat to lift the princess of luxembourg away from oscar's pants (she was dabbing them with water to remove a mayonaisse stain) and shouted, "your highness, arise!" my mother laughed so hard the milk she was drinking came out of her nose.
Felix: "Hello, Oscar, did you just walk into the party?" Oscar: "I walked into the party like I was walking onto a yacht!" Felix: "Oscar, what color is your scarf?" Oscar: "Apricot!" And so on, with the background music building up until they break into a robust version of the Carly Simon classic.
Felix is making bread, he sticks his head in the pot to smell the yeast and Oscar hits the pot with a rolling pin.
www.jumptheshark.com /o/odd_couple.htm   (17853 words)

  
 The Odd Couple: Felix Remarries - TV.com
After being kicked out of his apartment five years earlier, Felix convices his ex-wife that they should remarry.
Felix: Murray, Gloria is the mother of two children.
Tell the world what you think of Felix Remarries, write a review for this episode.
www.tv.com /odd-couple/felix-remarries/episode/92661/summary.html   (145 words)

  
 The Winchester Star-‘The Odd Couple’ Familiar But Very Worthwhile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Well-delivered satirical comments about Felix by Oscar include that only Felix would send a suicide telegram rather than a note to expedite the delivery, and he is the only person who would wear a seat belt at a drive-in movie.
The sisters, Gwendolyn (Libby Ingham) and Cecily (Thomasin Savaiano), are smitten with Felix’s honesty and sensitivity.
When Felix attempts to light a cigarette for one of them, he accidentally catches it in the lighter and doesn’t realize it for several seconds.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/030603/Life_review.asp   (699 words)

  
 This Week’s Attitude By Neil S. Friedman
Years before homosexuality gained a modicum of acceptance in our society, Felix Unger’s sexuality was a tad ambiguous.
Felix is defending himself when a female character testifies she "assumed" Felix was trying to scalp a theater ticket.
Felix writes "ASSUME" on a flboard, then divides it into three parts and firmly states, "When you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME." I’ve seen it dozens of times and still laugh each time I hear that line.
www.canarsiecourier.com /News/2004/0520/Attitude   (694 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Anne O'Reilly and Niji Ramunas (the Pigeon sisters) console Jonathan Claiborne as Felix Unger.
Michael P. Sullivan (Oscar Madison) and Jonathan Claiborne (Felix Unger) have a first date with jAnne O'Reilly and Niji Ramunas (the Pigeon sisters, Gwendolyn and Cecily).
Jonathan Claiborne, center, as Felix Unger is "consoled" about his recent separation by Randy Dalmas, Steve Beall, Denis L. Latkowski and Michael W. Tan.
www.spotlighters.org /odd_couple.htm   (1037 words)

  
 RIP Felix Unger - RonaldReagan.com Forums
Felix Unger: The man puts his ketchup on his salad.
Felix Unger: Everything you've ever owned is on that bed.
Felix Unger: There are things growing under there!
www.ronaldreagan.com /forums/showthread.php?t=2818   (255 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Actor Tony Randall Dies; Fussy Half of 'Odd Couple'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Tony Randall, 84, the wispy-looking, rubber-faced comedian who scored his greatest fame as the fussbudget Felix Unger on the television sitcom "The Odd Couple," died May 17 at a hospital in New York.
Randall, who had a long career in radio, television, stage and film and was a major promoter of opera, said he wanted to be known for more than playing Felix Unger.
Perhaps no role suited him better than that of Felix Unger, the compulsively tidy photographer who rooms with his best friend and fellow divorcee, the unkempt sportswriter Oscar Madison.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A36052-2004May18?language=printer   (1181 words)

  
 People
With his compulsive cleanliness, his love of classical music, art and theater and his flair for Halston-era fashion, Felix Unger was one of TV's groundbreaking metrosexuals.
If the show were on the air today, Felix would be getting weekly facials, carrying a smart Gucci bag and sniffing his way through a Kiehl's store to find the best-smelling product for his well-coiffed hair.
And while Felix certainly got on Oscar's nerves, deep down he seemed to enjoy having a lady around the house.
www.planetout.com /content/slideshow/?coll=263   (135 words)

  
 Randall, Tony
Tony Randall, an Emmy-award winning television and film actor, is most noted for his role as the anal-retentive Felix Unger in the ABC sitcom The Odd Couple.
After finding a niche in films, including numerous roles in romantic comedies, Randall won the part of Felix Unger in the ABC television version of The Odd Couple (1970-75).
Randall reprised his Felix Unger role in a 1993 TV-movie version of The Odd Couple.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/randalltony/randalltony.htm   (686 words)

  
 Tony Randall dead at 84
Randall achieved fame as the fastidious Unger, who shared an apartment with fellow divorcee Oscar Madison, who was played by Jack Klugman.
Where Unger was obsessed with cleanliness and order, Madison was an unrepentant slob who thrived on messiness.
In recent commentary about the program, some writers have claimed Felix was a prototypical metrosexual, long before the term had been invented.
members.shaw.ca /b.bogdan/blog_images/tony_randall.htm   (427 words)

  
 Actor Tony Randall dies at age 84 - TELEVISION - MSNBC.com
She played Felix Unger’s girlfriend on “The Odd Couple” for three years.
He was best-known, though, for playing fastidious photographer Felix Unger opposite Klugman’s Oscar Madison on “The Odd Couple,” the sitcom based on Neil Simon’s play and movie.
In an effort to bring classic theater back to Broadway, Randall founded and was artistic director of the nonprofit National Actors Theatre in 1991, using $1 million of his own money and $2 million from corporations and foundations.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5004611   (1387 words)

  
 Felix Marine Industries | Felixmarine.net
Felix Marine Industries (FMI) is named after an inside joke.
As a boy my father (Bill Orr, CEO of FMI) use to watch The Odd Couples Show with Tony Randall as Felix Unger, with his little brother.
Felix Marine Industries Inc. has grown substantially since 1996; we are now the largest detail company in Washington State.
www.felixmarine.net /about.html   (260 words)

  
 ActiveHome Macros - The Felix Unger Going to Bed macro
Felix usually does the same routine when he gets ready for bed, so he built this ActiveHome Macro to make this neat routine a "snap".
Below is a summary of what happens every night when Felix goes to bed.
Activation of Macro: Felix touches a key on the Super Remote to activate the Macro.
www.x10.com /products/macro_sleep.htm   (525 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Odd Couple (Widescreen): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Felix is a fussy neat freak who writes the news for television.
The scenes involving the two are alternately riotous - as when Oscar becomes fed up with Felix's constant fussing - and touching - as when Felix cries in front of the Pigeon sisters, his and Oscar's dinner dates.
Recently divorced fussbudget and neatfreak Felix Unger (Lemmon) is down on his luck.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000507P8   (1162 words)

  
 Odd Couple Shows Fan website
This priceless story of two divorced Manhattan men Felix Unger (Broderick) and Oscar Madison (Lane) sharing an apartment and life first appeared on Broadway March 8, 1965, when it started what would wind up to be a super run of 966 performances, split between the Plymouth and Eugene O'Neill Theaters.
Lane and Broderick have become one of the hottest double acts in the world after fetching a clutch of awards in the hit Broadway show The Producers.
The Odd Couple revolves around a pair of mismatched roommates, one neat and polite, Felix Unger, and the other sloppy and crude, Oscar Madison.
www.geocities.com /broadwayshowsfanz2/Odd_couple.htm   (462 words)

  
 Worldandnation: After a six-decade career, he'll always be known as Felix
Tony Randall, the sardonic actor immortalized for his portrayal of neat-freak Felix Unger in The Odd Couple, died Monday (May 17, 2004) after a long illness.
Randall told AP Radio that, thanks to reruns, it was no surprise most people knew him as Felix Unger.
In the early 1950s, he landed a role on television that in a sense would presage his Felix Unger portrayal in that people began to feel that Mr.
www.sptimes.com /2004/05/19/news_pf/Worldandnation/After_a_six_decade_ca.shtml   (1378 words)

  
 The Odd Couple - Frequently Asked Questions
On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence.
In the show opening, the number of Oscar and Felix's apartment building is shown to be 1049, and a few episodes mention them living at 1049 Park Avenue.
While Felix was trying to give away an extra ticket for a Broadway musical, a woman offered him money for it, and he was arrested for scalping.
www.oddcouple.info /faq.html   (3762 words)

  
 Tony Randall
Tony Randall played Felix Unger, the fastidious photographer who was half of TV's The Odd Couple, from 1970-75.
The Odd Couple was based on the play by Neil Simon and the feature film starring Jack Lemmon (Felix) and Walter Matthau (Oscar).
Tony Randall - Tony Randall Age: 84 actor best known for his role as the persnickety Felix Unger in the television...
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/tonyrandall.html   (343 words)

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