https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZbpYq2TA0U
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 07:31 (eight years ago) link
rewatch of his (theatrical) directorial swan song tonight
pitless watermelon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klg0R9wQSaM
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 March 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
They had what I assume to be a 1st ed. hardcover copy of the book this thread took its name from in the collectibles case at my local Half-Price for $100.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 March 2016 02:50 (eight years ago) link
I saw that book for cheap once and inexplicably didn't buy it. A new printing is rumored.
Jerry has a "pointless cameo" as Nic Cage's dad in a new thriller.
http://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/the-trust-review-nicolas-cage-elijah-wood-sxsw-1201729052/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 March 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
90!
http://m.lasvegassun.com/blogs/kats-report/2016/mar/15/jerry-lewis-at-90-its-a-monster-number/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
Happy birthday, Jerry!
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 11:46 (eight years ago) link
not sure i've posted the 'turkey dinner' sketch, recently discussed by JL with Scorsese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erLJdTPa2i4
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Max Rose to be distributed this summer, finally
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-lewis-max-rose-lands-876217
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208938637327723&set=a.1603159283429.2080924.1369518799&type=3
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
OK, so a documentary about The Day the Clown Cried has just come on my TV screen...
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 March 2016 21:33 (eight years ago) link
... ugh, Terry Wogan
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 March 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
Was just watching that too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbZIyXNRxos
We've got ten years to wait.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 March 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
thx guys for staying on form
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 March 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
party time
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/friars-club-hosts-90th-birthday-tribute-jerry-lewis-38268340
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 April 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1UHm8DcRAo
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 April 2016 00:29 (seven years ago) link
Max Rose is nothing special, tho Old Jerry has a nice gravitas. (The most kinetic performance in the film is a one-scene climactic spin by Dean Stockwell.)
JL entered the packed MoMA theater (assisted by his people) for it, got a standing ovation, and loudly asked "When do we eat?" The he did his usual passive / aggressive japery in the postscreening interview and Q&A. Someone asked him what growing up in Newark was like in the '30s. "Do you want to know about my bris? Jesus Christ. NEXT!"
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 April 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
and here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm9v8yFrQic
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 April 2016 10:38 (seven years ago) link
the only thing that survives of Jerry's animated TV show from '70 (to which he did not actually contribute; Squiggy from LaVerne and Shirley played Jerry). looks like about 99% racial stereotype stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0g6-vEDTLw
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 2 May 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
i vaaaaguely remember the existence of that
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 10:23 (seven years ago) link
RIP Bill Richmond, co-writer on 7 Lewis films
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-richmond-dead-jerry-lewis-904166
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ulADfytmQ
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 June 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Mel (Brooks) and I only worked together on the script for THE LADIES' MAN for about two weeks. Mel and I would pitch ideas back and forth to each other. Once we had a good idea Mel would say, "Let's run it by Jerry and see if he likes it." So we'd call Jerry, and Jerry would say, "I can't talk right now, but let me get back to you." Now if anybody had a bigger ego than Jerry Lewis, it was Mel Brooks. Jerry did this to Mel about four times, so finally Mel literally just said, "Fuck this, I quit." So that left me to write the movie.
http://blog.tvstoreonline.com/2015/05/part-one-three-time-emmy-winner-and.html
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 June 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
Oh man, had totally forgotten about the animated show! I could still recall parts of that great bubblegummy theme song, but not a thing about the cartoon itself.
― Dan is a #VegetablePuppet, he is NOT REAL. #flatearth (Dan Peterson), Friday, 24 June 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
A pretty good Egyptian tomb sketch from JL's '67-69 NBC show, with a very game and funny Janet Leigh, with Jer as the nutty professor (who he recycled frequently in this series). There's a DVD if you'd like to see it w/out soup and subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioy920ZAnj8
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 July 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
DECONSTRUCTING JERRY: LEWIS AS DIRECTORA special dossier to accompany the Jerry Lewis program of the Melbourne International Film Festival 2016.
The comedian went on to discuss the duality in his own mind between his screen personality and the man who plays him, he spoke of the person on the screen as “him”. “Sometimes I write a memo in the morning”, he explained, “and then later, on the set when it’s carried out, I rebel against it – I’ve forgotten that it was me that asked for it.”
The only trouble with my doing my own screen writing is that I get so involved with the character I play that the perspective gets distorted and I begin to send out messages which have nothing to do with what I started out to create.
http://sensesofcinema.com/2016/jerry-lewis/
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 July 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GutZv_D7DKk
love the Ren & Stimpy style intro music. also fun to see him tear into his former employer, "A network that would fire a father of five 3 days before Christmas".
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv_4dIj5q_I
this full episode features a really cool Gary Lewis performance followed by silly Nazis followed by Lassi!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link
there u go LA
http://americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/jerry-lewis-to-the-max
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
The star explores unusually rich dramatic territory in the title role of soon-to-be-released MAX ROSE.
Wasn't this completed over two years ago? Did it finally find a distributor?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
yes. apparently the cut that was shown in Cannes some years ago was rushed and premature. (it's still not good)
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
“So just being alive is love?”
“Of course it is,” he says. Then there is a beat....
“Just being alive?” he says. “Think about what you just said. Just being alive. If God heard you right now, Oliver, he’d smack you. He would smack you all over this joint.”
http://observer.com/2016/08/what-jerry-lewis-talks-about-when-he-talks-about-love/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 September 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
So just why is Jerry Lewis known for being difficult?
“Because I am,” he said with firm declaration. “I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.
“And those people that think you’re difficult, respect you tremendously. Because the creative aspect of film will never change,” he added. “They may not like it, but they respect it.”
...A question about the notorious unreleased, unseen film “The Day the Clown Cried,” which writer-director Lewis made in Europe in the early 1970s and in which he starred as a Jewish clown who leads children to the Nazi gas chambers during WWII, invokes a third and final Jerry Lewis death stare.
“Can’t talk about it. I won’t,” Lewis said. “You can ask me anything you want, that doesn’t mean I’m going to answer you.”
It was reported in 2015 that Lewis’ archives were going to the Library of Congress and that “The Day the Clown Cried” may at last be available for public view in 10 years’ time. Lewis has other thoughts on the matter.
“Never,” he said as to whether the film would finally be shown publicly. “After I’m dead 30 years you won’t see it. I’ve got it worked out so there’s nothing to show.”
And with that, a wink. Playful, inviting and mischievous, it is the exact opposite of the door-slam death stare. ...
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-max-rose-jerry-lewis-profile-20160823-snap-story.html
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
I think Morbs would dig this:http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/wtf-uncovered-3-jerry-lewis
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
will try later
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
really is too bad it was cut short! seemed like it was going pretty well...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
@NickPinkertonIt can at one and the same time be true that a) Jerry Lewis is a prick and a holy terror and b) That's great and hilarious, good for him.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
Funny how Maron complained that he only got 30 minutes out of Jerry Lewis, not realizing that in fact he had rode the mechanical bull longer than anyone.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
Strikes me that Jerry is like Lou, inasmuch as "Make your questions be about what they are doing now, and let *them* make reference to the past, and they more than likely will.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Jerry Lewis and the Gender of Work
During his mature solo period, Lewis plays a working-class character in eight out of nine of the films directed by himself or Tashlin, which makes it safe to say that this is the basic solo Lewis persona. It is interesting, however, that in his most famous and critically respected film, The Nutty Professor, he does not play that character. Critics have seemingly warmed more easily to The Nutty Professor in part because it has a plot and a conventional narrative structure, however glaringly odd that may appear in the era of late David Lynch. The Nutty Professor, The Patsy, and all of the Tashlin-directed Lewis films struggle to find a compromise between conventional narrative structure and a comedic style based on visual/conceptual gags and sketches, sometimes grouped together as themed montages. In what I’m calling a “work film,” the subject of the sketches and montages is work....
http://brightlightsfilm.com/jerry-lewis-work-gender-rock-a-bye-baby-disorderly-orderly/#
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 January 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Lol just saw his Batman cameo
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 15 January 2017 02:26 (seven years ago) link
91 today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua4suRfdbWU
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 March 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
Now dead.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40994864
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Condolences to Morbz.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS21T_p0pNA
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
Lewis’ characters are not only accidental fools, but self-determined ones, never the victims of circumstance à la classic comedy, so the question is which self it is that determines. If we assume that the Lewis character is performing his act knowingly, we can marvel at his feats of silliness, comfily complicit with Jerry Lewis, the character, that his image is of his choosing; if we assume he acts unknowingly, we can be comfily complicit with Jerry Lewis, the author, who mocks this moron in a genteel world. Different audiences have probably done both with different Lewises.
http://www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php/archives/31-lfu-12/83-david-phelps-the-pisher-dada-menschs-fodder-division-of-the-soul-s-labor
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
RIP ya daffy bastard. Hopefully TV might show a few of his films for a change.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
When I was a nipper seems they would only show one of the worst ones, Hook, Line and Sinker
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
I grew up with them, now the only one you might conceivably see is "The Nutty Professor".
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
Its the only one I've seen.
Oh, the one where he's a college student? "I don't need (these glasses) anymore"
― Mark G, Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
Poster from my collection. Bought it in 1984 at Bleecker Street Cinema. One of my faves. #JerryLewis pic.twitter.com/4KS4T0LxBh— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) August 20, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 August 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link