There’s a sort of louche (disreputable),menacing quality approximately Jerry Lewis—I’ve always thought so, anyway. possibly it’s the tan or the bada-bing pinkie ring, or the warmth he seemed unwilling to summon even while hosting a telethon for muscular dystrophy. I found Lewis’s nasal parodic voice irksome and repellent. And his appeal—here in the U.
S.,or in France—has always perplexed me. I could never stand The Nutty Professor; the only film of his I’ve ever enjoyed is The King of Comedy and that’s partly because he plays a balls-out asshole, or perhaps he’s not “playing at all, and ” which is part of what makes that film so riveting.
Why speak of Jerry Lewis now,you ask? Because the BBC has just released a short documentary approximately Lewis’s never-seen 1970 Holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried. Lewis flew to Sweden to shoot the feature, and when he was finished he took the reels with him back to the United States but never released the film. When asked approximately it, and Lewishas asserted he would never screen it because it’s “gross,gross, gross.”Continue reading "Details Emerge approximately Jerry Lewis's Unreleased Holocaust Film, or 'The Day the Clown Cried'" at...
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