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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... movie. In a later scene the book itself was shown pressed to the breasts of his students, including Nastassja. Yet, though I never participated in the making of any other movie, I did continue to watch them and even, reluctantly, to ...
... movies and to leave them feeling happy. Since the kind of comedy he wrote was slapstick farce, in which violence is present everywhere, this was not easy to do. Yet he somehow always managed to make the poke in the eye, the slap on the ...
... movies in which Jerry explored in depth his ill-fated relationship with Dean and Dean's rejection of him— from My Friend Irma (1949) to Hollywood or Bust (1956)—are not only the saddest and funniest he ever made but absolutely unique ...
... movies, filling his growing hours of idleness with busy work as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, whose activities on behalf of victims of such neural disorders climaxed in a Labor Day telethon that since the ...
... movie with a happier ending than the one that seemed to lie ahead of him in real life. To do this, he was aware he would have to exorcise the ghost of Dean Martin, which continued to haunt him, by rewriting the story of their love ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |