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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... comic or grotesque than as pathetic, as in the case of Quilp, the character whom he once said was the closest thing to a self-portrait he had ever created. Jerry Lewis, by contrast, never forgot his primary obligations as a comedian: to ...
... comic creeps who survive in his films. None of them seems to be dreaming of success or, indeed, any other fully adult goal. Instead they yearn for what is called, in the jargon of the young, “popularity,” hoping to be accepted ...
... comic comfortable in a substantial straight role. As so often in real life, when the thin membrane of his defensiveness was punctured, Jerry responded by comparing the person who made him uncomfortable to a Nazi. And like so many things ...
... comic legend—a performer whom Jerry had greatly admired during his own rise—who phoned with hairraising stories about Jerry's sex life and its impact on his household. There was a scary smack of truth to his claims, but even listeningto ...
... comic innovator; part savvy Hollywood player; part pioneering director; part faded movie star; part humanitarian; part son, husband, father, lover, employee, business partner, boss, elder statesman, crank, crab, and icon—a man like all ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |