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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
The Total Film-Maker
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
it is his book.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
is it good
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
I have only seen a copy once. Scorsese swears by it apparently.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
that's a lotta chopped liver
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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.
http://img0058.popscreencdn.com/131715651_amazoncom-just-sings-part-2-45-rpm-ep-jerry-lewis-music.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
Nice! I've got this hanging on my wall:http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/cae0d7851b64dd6778fca4523b763d69/726440.jpg
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/WCvTrrb4_R4
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
Wow, it's bizarre to see color videotape footage from the 1950s.
― Josefa, Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
Max Rose at Cannes this week
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2013/02/_jerry_lewis_kerry_bishe_a_l.jpg
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
Looking forward to seeing that. I went to high school with the writer/director.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 20 May 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
That was a quick edit.... they shot it in Jan/Feb.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 May 2013 06:19 (ten years ago) link
some of that supporting cast... Claire Bloom, Dean Stockwell, Fred Willard, Joe Frank (that one)!
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
from the extracts of that 6-hour french doc i caught i learned that jerry's saved pretty much everything - all his original camera negs, workprints, outtakes, etc
― Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
That's why the Jazz Singer, upthread, looks so good. He has the (only?) original videotape, and was meticulous about archiving his stuff from the very beginning. All other copies of that were long-ago-destroyed kinescopes.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure he supplied the M&L Copacabana kine that I saw in Astoria in the late '80s, which was on-another-planet funny.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/jerry-lewis-repeats-distaste-female-comics-19241932
Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds. He then added: "I don't have any."In 1998, Lewis famously said that watching women do comedy "sets me back a bit" and that he has trouble with the notion of would-be mothers as comedians.Asked Thursday if he had changed his mind at all because of performers like Melissa McCarthy and Sarah Silverman, the 87-year-old Lewis said of women performing broad comedy: "I can't see women doing that. It bothers me.""I cannot sit and watch a lady diminish her qualities to the lowest common denominator," he said. "I just can't do that."
In 1998, Lewis famously said that watching women do comedy "sets me back a bit" and that he has trouble with the notion of would-be mothers as comedians.
Asked Thursday if he had changed his mind at all because of performers like Melissa McCarthy and Sarah Silverman, the 87-year-old Lewis said of women performing broad comedy: "I can't see women doing that. It bothers me."
"I cannot sit and watch a lady diminish her qualities to the lowest common denominator," he said. "I just can't do that."
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
I don't think ppl change much after 5 years old, and certainly not 85.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
I don't think ppl change much after 5 years old
You know ...
http://www.tracyjonesonline.com/jerry_lewis.jpg
... you're not wrong about that.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
you're inordinately fond of Puffy Medicated Jerry, long gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1GPs-P275I
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 May 2013 01:10 (ten years ago) link
Initial reviews are...not so good. And that clip isn't very encouraging.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 24 May 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
he looks pretty good these days!
i'm sure this movie will be terrible, jerry hasn't made a good career choice for many decades
there's a new print of the bellboy circulating out there, try to catch it if you can
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 25 May 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
clip looks ok to me! Jerry's playing Jerry as usual but his presence is still pretty commanding
― Oral Sex in Sharp’s Ridge Park (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 25 May 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
He got even richer letting Murphy redo Nutty Professor, that was a pretty good choice.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 May 2013 05:49 (ten years ago) link
that's true
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 25 May 2013 05:50 (ten years ago) link
Man, would love to see that in a theater.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:17 (ten years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JeF5INdcEa0/UcDfQmWnCKI/AAAAAAAAH2k/jK-F9PB3_Bg/s1600/981421_558073160905035_24921363_o.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 20 June 2013 06:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.fandor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/vjerry.jpg
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
I saw The Trials of Muhammad Ali on the weekend, and there was a great clip of him being interviewed by Lewis circa 1964--maybe guest-hosting on The Tonight Show?--and Lewis tells him to shut up! Can't find the clip.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK6Yoq3xhH8
― JCL, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
That'd be it, thanks--I was searching Jerry Lewis/Muhammad Ali.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
Hey, Morbs, if you want a signed first edition of Jerry Lewis In Person, my cousin has one up on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/331046873396?roken=rzF8IT
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link