https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkomzcVzIIU
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 April 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
Saw a few minutes of some dreary Borgnine B-movie yesterday called The Rabbit Trap, and watched Rickles steal a scene just by mugging, miming eating and swigging a beer during a backyard BBQ interlude.
― stet, where is thy Zing? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
(Shawn) Levy’s posted a note on Facebook, which Ray Pride passes along at Movie City News: “Jerry and I met twice while I was working on the book and spoke/wrote to each other perhaps a dozen times. Like many of his relationships with the press and his partners/subordinates, it ended badly, with Jerry hollering profanities at me in the cabin of his yacht in San Diego. I wrote about it in the epilogue to my book, and over the years I’ve had the scene quoted back to me by Steve Martin, Harry Shearer, Paul Provenza, and Penn Jillette. Tom Hanks once told me that he had a dinner with Paul Reiser and Martin Short at which Short spent the night imitating Jerry throwing me off the boat. Jerry was a lot of things: father, husband, chum, businessman, philanthropist, artist, innovator, clown, tyrant.”
Levy's bio of Lewis is def the one to read.
http://moviecitynews.com/quotes/biographer-shawn-levy-on-jerry-lewis-on-facebook/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 August 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
Dick & Jerry
http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/the-comedic-legacies-of-dick-gregory-and-jerry-lewis-rip-a-study-in-contrasts.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
RIP Marty Allen, who I would have a tough time explaining to anyone under 50
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/marty-allen-dead-zany-comedian-was-95-925520
https://www.boomermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Marty_Allen-_Rossi-with-the-Beatles-_1964_courtesy-Marty-Allen.jpg
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
RIP Chuck McCann
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/chuck-mccann-new-york-comic-dead-83-article-1.3922794
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
RIP Will Jordan, who did his Ed Sullivan impression everywhere from Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway to a Billy Joel video
https://www.newsweek.com/will-jordan-dead-ed-sullivan-impression-billy-joel-1110525
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
As this thread could easily double as one for Gilbert Gottfried's podcast, I'll link this 2016 appearance from a then-80-year-old Jordan:
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/will-jordan/
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
*89-year-old
I saw Jordan talk/perform briefly in a comedy club six (?) years ago for a Larry Storch birthday tribute. (Jake LaMotta and Marni Nixon, who have also shuffled off since, were also there.)
My comedian friend who is quoted in the Newsweek obit also knows Gilbert in the Friars Club.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
happy 96th (tomorrow) to Mr Storch
https://www.facebook.com/andrewporetz/videos/10155713015951249/
https://travsd.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/95-years-of-larry-storch-only-2-of-agarn/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 January 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link
RIP Kaye Ballard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12uxvrPAg-s&fbclid=IwAR3B8eOgLKOPf2fqiayVWl76ov7dhDdlVXgkJriTOkvvDfuoLJVH1Cs3NpI
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
let's try again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12uxvrPAg-s
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
RIP Jack Burns
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jack-burns-dead-muppet-movie-muppet-show-writer-was-86-1274178
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpjgEB1dmg
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link
Aw man, I totally missed this, just read it elsewhere today. RIP, huh? Yeah. Huh? Yeah. Huh? Yeah, RIP.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
Referring to Jack Burns passing, obviously.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
It's strange that he hosted SNL (solo) in the second season.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
Didn't know that. My parents watched lots of variety shows when I was a kid, but I mostly remember him from his stint replacing Don Knotts on Andy Griffith (where he wasn't too popular.)
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
a thankless job
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xknBQvt5jSI
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link