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AZ Jim
08-20-2017, 02:31 PM
rip
rcfieldz
08-20-2017, 02:32 PM
ya I read that....
suds00
08-20-2017, 02:42 PM
Rip
CaveDog
08-20-2017, 02:44 PM
Bummer. Great entertainer. He will be missed. RIP Jerry.
Chris
08-20-2017, 02:57 PM
Great entertainer but other than when he played opposite Dean Martin, I never much cared for him.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBeB4vdCbtg
Dr. Who
08-20-2017, 02:59 PM
Rip.
Tricia
08-20-2017, 04:31 PM
Rip
NapRover
08-20-2017, 04:45 PM
What a shame they couldn't find a cure for MD while he was alive. Wonder how he'd feel about the way we plan to get rid of it: find out who has it in the womb and abort them.
gamewell45
08-20-2017, 04:57 PM
Rest in eternal peace Jerry.
KathyS
08-20-2017, 05:04 PM
RIP, Jerry. :cry:
Cannons Front
08-21-2017, 01:09 PM
He was a funny guy, and he now joins a great many of his friends who have proceeded him.
Captain Obvious
08-21-2017, 01:28 PM
Homophobe, was thrown off of his own telethon for homophobic remarks.

Never really cared for his movies or routines, too silly.
jimmyz
08-21-2017, 01:32 PM
I always looked forward to his hosting the MD Telethon when I was a kid in the late 70s early 80s. The folks let us kids stay up as long as we could to watch it into the early morning hours of the next day.You would see a metered slow down where Jerry would become undressed and more drunk as the hours ticked by. Jerry would start sharp in wit and wore a tuxedo. As the time went by and the bourbon got in him the bow tie would be undone. The jacket would come off. His sleeves would be wound up. It was a great show with lots of singers and comedians that the youngsters here may have never seen.

In his older years when he was still hosting the The MD Telethon would go local to the differing stations and, I assume, Jerry would be taking a break and napping.

RIP
AZ Jim
08-21-2017, 03:03 PM
Lewis was notorious for mistreating staff. I thought the world of Dean Martin.
Mini Me
08-21-2017, 09:45 PM
Dino could flat out sing!

Loved his TV show. His babes always were top drawer!

Jerry was funny as a 12 YO kid, otherwise not!
Chris
08-22-2017, 11:18 AM
Came across this. Heard about it before. It's quite interesting.

From Jerry Lewis, RIP: An Innovative Performer and a Cautionary Tale (http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/20/jerry-lewis-rip-an-innovative-performer)


...That last point, of course, is a reference to Lewis' unfinished Holocaust project, The Day the Clown Cried. Begun in the late '60s and early '70s as the ultimate vanity project (Lewis starred and directed), The Day the Clown Cried followed a crying-on-the-inside clown who led children into gas chambers for the Nazis. "It's either better than Citizen Kane, or the worst piece of shit anyone ever loaded on the projector," Lewis himself told Entertainment Weekly, and the fact that it was never widely aired gives you a sense of what the auteur thought.

But even in this sort of career overreach—which ultimately gave rise to Robin Williams' awful Jakob the Liar and Roberto Benigni's powerful Life Is Beautiful—Lewis was a trailblazer. Last year, the BBC released a documentary by comedian David Schneider about Lewis' most-notorious (and unseen) film that has been made even more poignant by his death. Watch below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbZIyXNRxos

The Day the Clown Cried: The Unseen Movie That Refuses to Die (https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/08/the-day-the-clown-cried-the-unseen-movie-that-refuses-to-die/) discusses it and adds Lewis's reasoning behind not releasing the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD-BYt8KiwA