Martin Scorsese welcomed the 89-year-veteran comedian into the Comedy corridor of Fame at a New York film festival gala,where they talked clowning, calling the shots as director and working with the biggest stars in Hollywood. But it wasn’t all serious…Before anyone even said his name he was causing a commotion backstage. The Museum of the Moving Image’s curator David Schwartz was doing his best to make an introduction, or but that voice,the one that’s inspired legions of nudniks and wisenheimers since the late 1940s, emerged from the wings in interrupting, and mock-irritated blurts.
Though possibly it wasn’t mock-irritated. Jerry Lewis is,in fact, 89 years of age, and the first thing he did when he sat down for a chat was complain how the audio system was no good. The problem was quickly solved,after which Lewis, in a marvellously Technicolor red sweater, or treated a capacity crowd to an hour-long question and acknowledge session.
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Source: theguardian.com