Jerry Lewis receives French Legion of Honor on 80th birthday

Zero.

I would wager that his will instructs his estate to destroy the prints he keeps in a safe in his office, and that they'll do exactly that

xpost

so yer amazed that the French allegedly love him on the basis of...?

really, you kids and yr "Clown" obsession make this world lousy.

I do not trust anybody who is not personally, relentlessly obsessed with The Day the Clown Cried

J0hn D OTM.

83!

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/85/90585-004-20A517BA.jpg

great scene:

http://elusivelucidity.blogspot.com/2009/06/so-many-options.html

Genius scene!!!

Jerry Lewis to Direct Broadway’s ‘Nutty Professor’
By Dave Itzkoff, NY Times

Hey, ladies! (And, also, gentlemen.) Jerry Lewis is headed back to Broadway, this time in the director’s chair. The veteran comedian, last seen in 1995 on a Broadway stage as Applegate in the revival of “Damn Yankees,” will direct a musical adaptation of his hit 1963 comedy “The Nutty Professor” that is planned for the 2010-11 season, the show’s publicists said in a news release. That film starred Mr. Lewis as the nebbishy Julius Kelp, who invents a formula that transforms him into the debonair Buddy Love. (A 1996 remake starred Eddie Murphy as the overweight Sherman Klump and his suave alter ego.) The musical adaptation will feature music by Marvin Hamlisch (“A Chorus Line”) and lyrics and book by Rupert Holmes (“Curtains,” “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”). A cast has not yet been announced.

84 today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuVVvEig2ic

Morbz if ever you are in Cleveland again, you should hang w/my wife. She is a MAJOR Lewis stan.

Cleveland twice in one lifetime is asking a lot. A-hoy-HOY! One in a row!

Ha! Luckily for you we also try to get to NYC at least once a year.

For Jerrypalooza?

yeah, when the Nutty Professor musical opens (I'm not expecting that to ever happen).

^^^ actually...

(it might, I'm sayin')

Have you been brought in to doctor the "Wipe the Lipstick Off" lyrics?

I know people who know stuff is all I'm sayin

it'd take some top shelf scotch to get any more outta me

http://barney.files.wordpress.com/2006/02/Robert%20Burns.jpg

... The Musical???

from Michael Musto's column last week:

"Hey, lady!" was the cri de coeur two nights later, when Jerry Lewis accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Friars Club, turning the assembled throng into the world's oldest version of Jerry's kids. Jerry is the guy that a new comedy book, Another Fine Mess, describes as someone 1950s critics found "a further sign of the apocalypse: a grinning, destructive man-child, mostly incapable of speech, charming undiscerning audiences into helpless laughter." And those are all the reasons I'm a fan—and I'm not even French or undiscerning, thank you.

At the Friars event, the grinning man-child said he loves it when people tell him, "I grew up with you." As he explained, "People want to make contact with someone that they remember advanced their childhood through humor." He said that inspires him to keep doing it, while also making him want to be a responsible adult ("I try not to bang ladies in Chicago"). In fact, Jerry Lewis is living so cleanly, he's planning to beat George Burns's record of living to 100.

While he was very much breathing, I cornered Jerry at his table—where he sat next to Quentin Tarantino, and I am not making that up—and asked who'll star in the Broadway version of Jerry's schizophrenia-comedy classic The Nutty Professor. "I've got Michael Andrew," he replied. "He's great." And how did he find him, pray tell? "He found me," Jerry said, "but that's another story. Can I get another drink?" While he was busy with the waiter, I went home and looked up Michael Andrew singing a smiley medley of casino-ready love tunes on Jerry's telethon. He can definitely play the slippery lounge-singer character.

85 today. Still gives great quote:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/kats-report/2011/mar/16/85-jerry-lewis-remains-true-las-vegan/

Did he only recently let himself go grey? Good look on him, should have done that a while back.

And damn if you're not right about the quotes:

“Want me to tell you what would make Al Jolson turn over in his grave? That’s to see a marquee outside of a hotel, a huge marquee, saying, ‘Prime Rib $9.’ That (bleeping) marquee was put there for Andy Williams, or Steve and Eydie, or Frank, or Dean and Jerry. Prime Rib? What are you doing? You’re using that to advertise a steak? … You’re charging people $200 night to come to a town that has a steak on the marquee? (Slams a fist on table). Let’s go see steak tonight! It just boils my ass!”

Steak will be here all week!

i found a copy of this mag @ a book sale the other day -
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FOCUS-Chicago-Film-Journal-Hitchcock-Tashlin-Hawks-/220510132382#vi-desc

theres a footnotes section on the second-to-last page abt various projects, etc and one reads:

Finally, despite extreme production difficulties, Jerry Lewis has finished his pet project of many years, THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED

miss you Jerry

(not the telethon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP59ZQdQZak

Flipped past it last night, thought, "Woo-hoo! Jerry!" and just as quickly remembered he was out of the picture.

Also, I'm upset that I can't find the clip from the year when he introduced Lynyrd Skynyrd by pronouncing their name phonetically ("lie-neerd sky-neerd").

Did anybody listen to WBAI (FM 99.5) from New York City this morning at 11am? No? OK, I'll summarize it for you. Hosts Janet Coleman and David Dozer welcomed Judy Graubart (ex-cast member of the Electric Company!) and Joshua White, who claimed to be a former producer of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, to speak on the topic of comedy and charity.

Joshua White stated unequivocally that the reason Jerry Lewis no longer hosts the Telethon is that the MDA administration, which had always been composed predominately of gay men, reached a point where they could no longer tolerate the homophobic nature of Lewis's comedy, and so they fired him.

Joshua White also claims to be one of the three people who have seen the unedited footage of The Day the Clown Cried, which he says is terrible and no amount of tweaking could make it good.

That could be part of it, but I doubt humorless f______ts is the whole story

Limp wrists and ice buckets are a deadly combination.

Jerry's said many fucked-up and indefensible things over the years, but iirc he issued a more-sincere-sounding-than-usual apology for a homophobic joke he told on the air a couple of years ago. For whatever that's worth.

which he says is terrible and no amount of tweaking could make it good.

tbf, Jerry himself has said that too, publicly and repeatedly.

his joke on on Julio Iglesias's name in that bit is "Julio English-Ass"

Julio English-Ass

that's what 58 years onstage (to that point) gets ya

punchline of woman-who-went-to-doc joke a fairly progressive twist tho

(for him)

also, do not play that at work or you might be euthanized

I was otherwise pretty impressed with his stand-up manner, it's not really even his field but he makes it work

his field

http://www.suprmchaos.com/jerry-lewis_061006.jpg

I'm always "impressed" by him. This much is true.

89 yesterday! he's playing Nic Cage's father in a corrupt-cop drama!

http://deadline.com/2015/02/jerry-lewis-the-trust-nicolas-cage-elijah-wood-1201375459/

"Nic, why did you do my voice in Peggy Sue Got Married? You couldn't have given me a call, first?"