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
I feel like I watch his movies and I don't understand them
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
They are personal and idiosyncratic for sure. I wish I didn't understand Apatow's.
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jerry live in NYC (w/ a documentary too) on his 86th birthday:
http://www.92y.org/tickets/production.aspx?pid=81040
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man, I wish I could go to that. But I'm glad I got to see him live once, in Damn Yankees. He killed.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
well yeah, esp when he went offscript or did 10 minutes of his Vegas act in the middle of his big song.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
moderator: Richard Belzer
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
so, here's what happened. Coulda called it The Old Man and the Shpritz.
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/03/the-indelicate-delinquent-in-manic-winter-an-evening-with-jerry-lewis/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Little wonder that, in a star-studded video of birthday wishes played near the tribute's end, '50s kids Werner Herzog (wishing Lewis a future "saturated with life") and Lou Reed materialized.
!!!
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks for posting, Morbs. What a wonderful tribute. Wish I could've been there.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
some folx showed up on videotape AND in person, ie Jerry Stiller and Joe Piscopo.
De Niro, Bogdanovich, Letterman and the comedy team of Tom Hanks & Jonah Hill also sent regards.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's always great to see Jer getting the respect he deserves.
Also,
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm really sorry we couldn't run a photo of him doing that from this event
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
lou reed's last record w/ Metallica is (unintentionally) funnier than anything jerry lewis has ever (intentionally) done for a laugh.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
it was nice to hear the Ladies Man butterfly gag get a big laugh
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Thanks for the mail now baby let's wail."
― Eric H., Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
nice piece Morbz, sounds like a fun night
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I didn't include Jerry's claim that he was the first to use arclights on a Hollywood set. "I saw them at UFA!"
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hoberman catalogs some of the evening's weirder moments (so right about the tanned wiseguys), and btw calls JL "Hollywood's most cerebral funny man since Buster Keaton":
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/94492/hey-jer-ree/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
After calling Jerry’s trademark “Hey lay-DEE!” the Beethoven’s Fifth of Comedy, Belzer...
Belzer OTM.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
can't believe I never made the connection between that and Beasties "Hey Ladies" before
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can believe it.
Also, Richard Brody:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/03/jerry-lewis-and-love.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
amazing story morbius
I do have a question though -- in that 'hardly working' clip upthread, why is the music a faux-oriental koto cover version of 'memories' from cats
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
why
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
via Mubi: a smorgasbord!
The centerpiece of the new issue of the multi-lingual film journal La Furia Umana is a walloping dossier on Jerry Lewis. Of the 24 pieces on Lewis, ten are in English: B Kite on the Little Clown in The Errand Boy (1961), Zach Campbell on Lewis's relation to his own image on screen, Murray Pomerance on that face, Peter Nellhaus on the extension of Lewis's auteurship into the films he didn't direct, David Phelps on Lewis's "Janus-faced comedy," R Emmet Sweeney on the September 18, 1955 broadcast of the Colgate Comedy Hour, Sudarshan Ramani on Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982), John J Kern on The Day the Clown Cried (1972), Steven Shaviro on Smorgasbord (aka Cracking Up, 1983) — and Gina Telaroli's remarkable, extra-textual piece on Hardly Working (1979).
http://www.lafuriaumana.it/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
B. Kite's is one of the great essays I've read on Lewis.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Smorgasbord/Cracking Up was brilliant. If it was his last film as a directory (as seems insanely likely), what a film to go out on.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Must read this.
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 (11 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 (10 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 (10 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