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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... live in such an age, though coolness has less to do now with personality. To look at Lewis carefully is to see one's own investment in arrogance, bullishness, sanctioned brutality; one's fetishizing of the mechanical; one's fear of ...
... live. It was there I once worked in a shoe store side by side with a crew of losers, one of whom was Danny Levitch, Jerry's father. Although he boasted constantly about his rosy prospects in the theater, he always seemed to end up ...
... lives and careers were somehow intertwined—I can never entirely shake him. Come Labor Day, I am drawn to the telethon like a recovering alcoholic who can't resist thumbing through a wine list. When word of another ill-tempered ...
... live constantly and utterly within. No one was ever going to write a biography of me, but I had a wee taste of what it might be like—and I didn't care for it. My wife and I had our telephone number changed and unlisted, and I stopped ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |