Seriously? Hating on Jerry is still a thing?
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been a huge fan in the past and remain so currently, but recent re-watches have made me feel he's the directorial equivalent of asperger's. I could easily see myself falling out of love with this director.
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wait. How did two Jerry Lewis polls happen on the same day? He's not dead, is he??
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Departed thread got off track
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
No, just a Morbs-related clusterfuck in The Departed thread.
(x-post)
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have to give it to eric though because "the total film-maker" has made me lol every time i've looked at it.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost
not sure what you mean by that. would that make tati full-on autistic ?
― dell (del), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Paul Sorvino: The Total Film-Maker
― Let me tell you something about that song. (Eazy), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Coleman Francis: The Total Film-Maker
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
do you own a copy, strongo?
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Would buy Coleman Francis: The Total Film-Maker for a dollar.
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
i own all the coleman francis movies, morbs. come on now.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
including the supressed directors cut of the the skydivers.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Day The Curly Killed
― da croupier, Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
francis/truffaut
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, anyway, the man's a stone cold genius. I prefer him to Chaplin, Keaton, Tati, who else ya got? At least seven of these are masterpieces but The Ladies Man stands as quite possibly the greatest film comedy of all-time. I grovel before him while dreaming of a 12-DVD box set of his greatest (which, as always with Jerry, also means his grossest) telethon moments.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Red Zone Nutty
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I prefer him to Chaplin, Keaton, Tati, who else ya got?
we part company here
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i was gonna say. a lol is a lol but.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
preferring Lewis to Keaton is like preferring Blackmore's Night to Deep Purple
― frog in a bs place (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
preferring lewis to chaplin is like preferring getting punched in the nuts to eating a pizza
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahahaha
― frog in a bs place (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
site for jerry lewis fans: http://www.ballbustingtube.com/
don't click that btw.
― frog in a bs place (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh now you knew i was going to click on that
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
all the "I cannot tell a lie" GIS results had some extraneous bullshit :(
― frog in a bs place (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
jerry lewis chopped down the cherry tree with his big fucking dick
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't even know what i'm talking about now. i'm so tired.
Oh pish posh. He exploited the potential of cinema much more than either Chaplin or Keaton (both of whom, yes, exploited it exceedingly well and have many masterpieces under their belts). Tati may have surpassed Lewis on that level but he lacks Lewis' grotesque personality which is essential to his life-affirming effect. I'm reminded of something Richard Barrios's disdain for Al Jolson (a key Lewis progenitor) in The Singing Fool: "Charisma, when applied this relentlessly, becomes oppressive." But yo, Richard, that's precisely why we go to the movies (or listen to, I don't know, Morrissey): to witness a gargantuan, out of control ego as a way to measure the contours of our own steady paths. If I wanted an even-keeled experience, I'd knock on my neighbor's door and ask to borrow some sugar.
P.S. Pizza is stupid and boring.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
delete "something"
You don't strike me as the type that needs more sugar.
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I certainly don't need fuckin' pizza.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bozelka, OTM itt.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rosenbaum:
Why are the French so crazy about Jerry Lewis? Well, for one thing, some of them see him as being very much like America: infantile, hysterical, uncontrolled, giddy, uninhibited, tacky, energetic, inarticulate, obnoxious, sentimental, overbearing, socially and sexually maladjusted, and all over the place. (By contrast, at least on the surface, Allen is adolescent, neurotic, controlled, whiny, inhibited, preppy, lethargic, articulate, cynical, wormy, socially and sexually maladjusted, and confined.) It’s not so much a matter of necessarily loving all these qualities as it is envying or admiring or identifying with some of them, and being horrified by others — a sort of compressed model of the love-hate that many French people feel toward America as a fantasy object. I suspect that what many French people experience as the overcultivated constraints of their culture finds a welcome release in Lewis’s explosiveness and ungainliness, and their taste for freewheeling fantasy is partially met by Lewis’s remoteness from realism — the sheer wildness of his ideas as a writer-director, and the deconstructive habits such as the vulgar modernism that he shares with Mel Brooks, which periodically reminds us in various self-referential ways that we’re watching a film. (At one point in the mid-1960s, Godard described Lewis as “the only free man working in Hollywood.”)
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is probably racist.dongmaster2 4 months ago
― buzza, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I seriously can't watch more than a minute or two of Jerry Lewis before my flesh starts to crawl. He's like the uncanny valley of human behavior.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
dongmaster2 otm
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
dongmaster2 least favorite installment of the dongmaster cycle
― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 29 July 2011 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 30 July 2011 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks, bud.
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 July 2011 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
judd apatow option doomed/saved this from the git-go
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 30 July 2011 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
plus that photo choice
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 July 2011 23:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/30/idUS77813458320110730
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Monday, 1 August 2011 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
On fat ladies trying to lost weight: "Who cares?"
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Monday, 1 August 2011 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
lose
I am going to miss Jerry's effortless pomposity about showbiz when he's gone; he may be the best ever at it. "I don't allow people in my family to use the term 'TV'" vs there's nothing good on. Real Sammy Maudlin stuff!
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/201108/jerry-lewis-interview-gq-august-2011?currentPage=all
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 6 August 2011 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh, that Berle story. I was waiting for "And then Gracie Allen picked up a fork..."
Is it possible that MDA got tired of the chairman boasting about his cocksmanship in print, at his unseemly age?
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Must read this.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've always been intrigued with the idea of transcribing the wandering, rococo verbalizations of Jerry the Kid in the films, so here's a partial, inadequate start:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/its-only-money/2269
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nice!
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd never seen It's Only Money before and was kind of shocked to hear him aaaaalmost doing the Kelp voice.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dave Itzkoff, NYT:
Can you make an Alaskan Polar Bear Heater in Tennessee? A musical version of “The Nutty Professor,” the Jerry Lewis comedy that introduced that stiff alcoholic concoction – along with the Jekyll-and-Hyde-like characters of Julius Kelp and Buddy Love – will have its world premiere in Nashville before a planned Broadway run later this year, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center said on Wednesday.
The “Nutty Professor” musical will be performed at the center’s James K. Polk Theater from July 24 through August 19, the organization said. The production, which is adapted from Mr. Lewis’s hit 1963 film of the same title, is to star Michael Andrew as Kelp, and will feature music by Marvin Hamlisch (“A Chorus Line”) and a book and lyrics by Rupert Holmes (“Curtains,” “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”). Mr. Lewis – who didn’t need a fat suit to play his “Nutty Professor,” thank you very much – is directing.
With his trademark humility, Mr. Lewis said in a statement: “This musical will be spectacular for a couple of reasons. One, I’m directing it. Two, I have Michael Andrew, who is one of the best talents to come down the pike in 50 years. And I’m surrounding him with one-of-a-kind creative people, like Marvin Hamlisch, Rupert Holmes and me.” He added: “After it’s over, give me a call and let me know if everything I said was spot on.”
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'll definitely see this when it's within driving range, but ffs, Marvin Hamlisch? Lewis had Count fucking Basie in his films, and the best he can come up with for this is Hamlisch?
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Everybody else he'd approve of is dead.
At the NYC birthday gala, the crowd went 'ooooh' at Hamlisch's name, to give you an idea of his most loyal demo.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
this was on cable last night for some reason and just... wtf this film is so lol 90s in every way
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was it it the uncut 140-minute-something version? Pretty good, and maybe Vincent Gallo's best performance before Essential Killing.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I only caught the last half and admittedly was fascinated by the nutso casting. Gallo is pretty funny. The final scene with Depp and Lewis as icefishing eskimos (speaking Inuit?) and then the fish up and flies away.... o_0
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
my Friars Club friend ran into Jerry last week and told him that he smelled great. Jerry laughed.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jerry and Me... Been looking forward to this since donna rouge's curator pal told me about it:
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=4395
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 June 2012 14:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
So, unless it's a very elaborate ruse, Jerry appears to be directing the Nutty musical.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/theater/jerry-lewis-directing-a-musical-nutty-professor.html?pagewanted=all
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 July 2012 13:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm guessing no one here will be filing a report from Nashville.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 July 2012 19:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
up and running (RIP Marvin Hamlisch)
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120806/ENTERTAINMENT03/308060072/Jerry-Lewis-thanks-Nutty-patrons
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
Jerry-directed episode of "Super Force"
http://thefilmsaurus.com/2012/10/31/jerry-lewis-directs/
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 November 2012 16:36 (6 months ago) Permalink
Wow, never knew he'd done any tv work post-Cracking Up.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 2 November 2012 16:46 (6 months ago) Permalink
next, his episode of Showtime's "Brothers":
http://thefilmsaurus.com/2012/11/05/the-return-of-jerry-lewis-directs/
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 19:12 (6 months ago) Permalink
a recent AV Club primer.... I don't think Artists and Models is quite so great but it's a decent place to start w/ the Dean years.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/where-to-start-with-jerry-lewis-filmography,88748/
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:42 (5 months ago) Permalink
The Total Film-Maker
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:46 (5 months ago) Permalink
it is his book.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:52 (5 months ago) Permalink
is it good
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:03 (5 months ago) Permalink
I have only seen a copy once. Scorsese swears by it apparently.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:07 (5 months ago) Permalink
It's a how-to.
Shooting starts tomorrow on new Jerry movie.
(with Mort Sahl in the cast!)
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
that's a lotta chopped liver
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:08 (4 months ago) Permalink
p amazing tales of initial teaming w/ dean martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iKNCm7hSgHo#!
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
Wow, that's great.
My dad saw them live at the Paramount in the early 50s, says he never laughed so hard before or since. After that, all other comedy fell just a little short.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 02:43 (2 months ago) Permalink
At a trivia contest I was at a couple of weeks ago, one of the questions had to do with Jerola's 1956 hit cover of "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody." I've got a vinyl copy of the album, so I was able to come up with the answer for my team.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 03:15 (2 months ago) Permalink
Nice! I've got this hanging on my wall:
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 03:18 (2 months ago) Permalink
What fascinates me about Cracking Up—I should say one of the many things that fascinate me about Cracking Up—is the fact that, while “playing” the schmuck Warren Nefron, Lewis didn’t bother to foreswear his impeccably-tailored suits or his expensive watch or the gold chain on his other wrist.* It is a known fact that Jerry never wears the same socks more than once, and I believe that, through the course of Cracking Up, he wears at least a dozen Member’s Only jackets in different colors, usually jauntily hiked up to the elbow. You can almost imagine him flinging them about, like Gatsby’s shirts.
Jerry’s most noteworthy sartorial choice on Saturday were his vinyl-shiny shoes that, as he was seated and his pants began to cinch up, revealed themselves to be ankle-length Beatle boots. (He wears a low-gloss version of same in The Patsy.) It was the sort of thing you might expect Gary Glitter, if not Gary Lewis, to wear...
http://blog.sundancenow.com/weekly-columns/bombast-88
― dell (del), Sunday, 14 April 2013 05:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
The Family Jewels, The Patsy, and The Big Mouth (zero votes altogether) are each on their own better than anything by Judd Apatow.
― Josefa, Sunday, 14 April 2013 06:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
I read that Pinkerton piece... but I knew pretty much all of that. "That's Jerry," we fans say.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 07:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
The whole "Buddy Love/Jerry Langford is the REAL Jerry" thing is well-worn territory; for Pinkerton to treat it as some kind of new insight is amateurish at best. And I swear I'd read the thing about Jerry's suits and jewelry somewhere else before, possibly in Rosenbaum's Hardly Working review.
While an exception might be made for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, this is OTM.
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:18 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://youtu.be/WCvTrrb4_R4
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:29 (4 days ago) Permalink
Wow, it's bizarre to see color videotape footage from the 1950s.
― Josefa, Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:22 (3 days ago) Permalink
I find Schmaltzy Jerry pretty indigestible, but I should watch that sometime. Molly Picon AND Alan "Fred Flintstone" Reed...
According to David Crosthwait of DC Video, the company that restored this video tape, this specific episode of "Startime" was taped at the then-NBC studio in Brooklyn, NY and hand-edited. Color video tape was in its infancy; only about a year previous to this [1959] the first color videotapes were recorded at NBC. The copy was a dub found at NBC. The tapes used proprietary electronics unique to NBC, which is one reason why restoration took time. The tape was missing part of its audio. The Lewis family donated a kinescope film copy of the show, along with a 1/4" audio tape of much of the show's soundtrack to finish the restoration.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:56 (3 days ago) Permalink