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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... stories I had published had been optioned, and for two of them screenplays had actually been written. But neither The Second Stone nor Nude Croquet had made it to the screen. For a while it seemed as if I might have more luck as an ...
... stories Jerry tells? Defined from the very beginning as losers, they cannot kill a dragon, find the Holy Grail, and become saints or kings; nor can they be convincingly portrayed as overthrowing a tyrant and freeing his oppressed people ...
... story of their love. Ultimately, he did so. As late as 1982, Jerry agreed to appear in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), which contains an account of his relationship with Dean Martin, with their roles reversed: that is ...
... stories. Old acquaintances tell me, “I was thinking of you the other day,” and then describe flipping channels to a half-remembered Lewis film or a bit of the telethon. Strange—and some deeply strange— people call or write to share ...
... story I was exploring, I reckoned, and I intended a last-word sort of result. (I was asked to deliver sixty to eighty thousand words—not exactly an all-encompassing length—but fully intended to ignore that limit and, in fact, wrote more ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |