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I remember Look at Us We're walking & I agree totally. If you want to get people to call & donate Jerry Lewis does it tastefully. The Cerebral Palsy telethon's way of asking for $$ by parading those poor kids in front of your eyes was a bit much. Maybe that is why there telethon ( if they still have it ) is extremely low key & small. Those people who were turned off never turned back on

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Updated On: 9/2/03 at 09:32 PM

Oh my! That sounds a little hateful.


Namo must be back

Hateful? I love bad taste! But to call somebody as devoid of tastefulness as Jerry Lewis tasteful is actually an insult to his entire ouevre.

And I didn't think up the Holocaust movie, Jerry did. And he shot it. But, what a surprise, nobody, but NOBODY, would release it.

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B.O.J., it is a completely fictional story that Jerry wrote and directed. And it highlights all of St. Jer's very worst impulses. Harry Shearer actually wrote an article about it, because he's one of the few people who actually saw a print. I can't remember what magazine I read it in, but I do recall him saying that it was a perfect object, the very definition of all that is awful.

P.S. I stand half corrected. A little digging on the web says that the movie was based on a work of fiction and the film was made in 1971. The digging also revealed that Shearer wrote about it in my beloved and lamented SPY Magazine. The quote from View Askew about Shearer's article: "He indeed found the film tasteless, vulgar and totally inappropriate. His main criticism is the Jerry-ization of the material (I can imagine the pain now)."

So there you go. I only brought it up because some things a man just can't let stand without challenging. And one is that Jerry Lewis and the concept of taste have ever been acquainted.

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Updated On: 9/2/03 at 10:29 PM

Jon, JON, please go back and read my post. I did not knock Jerry over his charity. In fact, I PRAISED him for it. Read what I wrote again. I merely said that he is not a tasteful man. And he isn't. The HEIGHT of his wit was sticking pencils up his nose and lighting a fistful of cigarrettes in his mouth! "Hey LADY!" was pretty much IT for him.

I myself threw several dollars into the MDA boot at the International Firefighter Competition in Longueil this weekend.

Say what you want about me and my posts, but it is startling to see how much misreading of them goes on around here.

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I actually find his bad taste funny, a little bit because he seems to think he's very sophisticated and really took the award from France VERY seriously. I only took issue with somebody saying, in seriousness, that Jer's tasteful. When he was doing a promo piece for the telethon on Larry King they showed his "Walk On," from last year and every one of those bad impulses were there. And still, in spite of it all, he raises lots of money for a good cause.

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MenkenFan, Davis' Music of the Night is indeed wonderful......He also performed it in The Ultimate Event concert, which was with Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelli

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All this talk of Sammy and Music of the Night made me go find my Sandra Bernhardt "WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING" cd--- When she talks about him singing it on Jerry's Telethon. And how he was the hippest jew in the world. And how anyone who is Madonna or her groupie should also be Sammy's groupie. It is classic Sandra.

And who of taste, breeding and distinction can forget Bette Midler's magnificent performance on the 1975 United Jewish Appeal Telethon? Four songs, including a devastating "Hello in There," and a promise to drop her top if a certain amount of money were pledged during her performance!

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Wow! You've SEEN the legend! And I think I'm lucky to be able to say I saw Carrie: The Musical! (Speaking of excellent taste!)

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The things the youth of today (and aging bags like That Opera Hag) think they know about incredible performances, huh?!?

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