Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American FilmMurray Pomerance NYU Press, 2002 - 274 страници The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. |
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... Clown Quit: Jerry Lewis Returns to The Jazz Singer's Roots 91 Krin Gabbard 3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations 7 Sex and Slapstick: The Martin and Lewis Phenomenon 109 Frank Krutnik 8 The Imbecile Chic of Jerry Lewis 123 Mikita ...
... Clown Quit,” traces the roots of the characterization of a cantor's son who finds a career in show business from its origins in the 1920s through the many modifications it has seen. Lewis's version, with the protagonist finally ...
... clown who arrived each day already drunk and got even drunker from the beers he gulped as we sped down the freeway. From the start I had the sense of being in not a real Hollywood but a mythic one that existed only on the pages of ...
... Clown Cried (1972, unreleased), the aborted Broadway play “Hellzapoppin,'” The King of Comedy (1983), and that increasingly unpleasant, slick fellow who popped up now and again alongside David Letterman or Larry King. I reckoned, I told ...
... Clown Cried [1972]), about my personal lack of tact and humanity (he dubbed me an “insensitive prick”), and about my professional failings (he seemed to think that hero worship had made it difficult for me to talk with him without being ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |