Question: The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 black It was produced and directed by Samuel "Billy" Wilder, an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned, more than how many decades?
Context: Malcolm P. Poindexter Jr. (April 3, 1925 – March 30, 2010) was an American newspaper, radio and television journalist whose career spanned more than 50 years.  Poindexter reported for KYW-TV (Channel 3), based in Philadelphia, from 1967 until his retirement in February 2001.  He won three Emmy Awards for his reports during his career.  He also wrote for the "Philadelphia Tribune", "The Philadelphia Bulletin", the London "Daily Express", "Jet" and "Ebony" magazine, and was an early member of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists. Ron Rich (born 1938 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actor who played the roles of football player Luther 'Boom Boom' Jackson in the 1966 Billy Wilder comedy "The Fortune Cookie", and Juno in the 1968 film "Chubasco". Samuel "Billy" Wilder ( ; ] ; June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.  He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age.  With "The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film. "Koi Suru Fortune Cookie" (恋するフォーチュンクッキー , Koisuru Fōchunkukkī , "The Fall-in-Love Fortune Cookie") is the 32nd single by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48.  It was released in Japan on August 21, 2013.  The lineup for the title track and supporting B-sides was determined by the results from the 2013 AKB48 general election, of which the winner was Rino Sashihara of AKB48 sister group HKT48.  The single contains graduation songs for Mariko Shinoda and Tomomi Itano. The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 black comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their first on-screen collaboration.  It was produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a script by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Hilary Brown is a Canadian journalist whose career spanned for almost four decades.  Brown is regularly characterized as a ground-breaker, for working as a foreign correspondent and a war correspondent, when women rarely posted to dangerous locations. Mirjana Rakić (born March 7, 1948) is a Croatian journalist whose career spanned both, the SFR Yugoslavia and later, Croatia.  She spent most of her career in the editorials for foreign policy issues at TV Zagreb and later Croatian Radiotelevision.  In 2005 she received the Maja Miles Prize for Journalism for her selection of topics that bring new and different sensibilities to the Croatian public space and raise the awareness about human rights and position of women at global level.  In her career, among many others, she interviewed Yasser Arafat, Margaret Thatcher and Muammar Gaddafi. Daniel Mandell (August 13, 1895 – June 8, 1987) was an American film editor with more than 70 film credits.  His first editing credit was for "The Turmoil" in 1924.  From "Dodsworth" (1936) to "Porgy and Bess" (1959), Mandell worked for Samuel Goldwyn Productions.  He had notable collaborations with directors William Wyler (1933–1946) and Billy Wilder (1957–1966).  Mandell's last credit was for "The Fortune Cookie" in 1966. James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty", was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s.  He was associated for many years with "The New York Times." Doane Harrison (September 19, 1894 – November 11, 1968) was an American film editor and producer whose career spanned four decades.  For nearly twenty years, from 1935–54, he was a prolific editor of films for Paramount Pictures, including eleven films with director Mitchell Leisen.  For twenty-five years, from 1941–1966, Harrison edited or produced all the films directed by Billy Wilder, who is now considered as one of the great 20th Century filmmakers.
Answer: five