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[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/2/03 at 9:32pm

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

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

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/03 at 9:43pm

"If you want to get people to call & donate Jerry Lewis does it tastefully."

Something winged just "oinked" as it flew by my window. That's proof that if you do anything long enough, EVENTUALLY people will give you credit for doing the one thing you made your entire career out of not doing. Ever. Of course it helps if you have a visible disability to get your past sins wiped right off the slate. Which isn't to say he hasn't done great charity work. But, I mean, taste? It is to LOL.

Speaking of which, let's talk about Jerry's shelved Holocaust epic motion picture, "The Day the Clown Cried," in which Mr. Tasteful played a clown who leads children to their gassings in a Nazi death camp. (I'm not making this up, you know.) Say, tweens, who would YOU like to see in a musical version of "The Day the Clown Cried." Mendes would direct, of course, and Sutton as Eva Braun goes without saying. Gavin would have to be a young gay Nazi, natch, but who else??

Updated On: 9/2/03 at 09:43 PM

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:13pm

Oh my! That sounds a little hateful.


Namo must be back

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:18pm

Let ye who is without sin .....

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:21pm

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.

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:26pm

I have a feeling NAMO that Jerry did not "make it up"-- It is probably a tale or a story that came out of the holicost. I mean if you can find me solid proof he made the whole story up I will take it back, but come one. I doubt he would make a story like that up.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:29pm

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.

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

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:33pm

As much as I could care less about Jerry's personality as I have never been much of a fan of his humor or talent, I do not see why you are darn thrilled to be ripping this man who has helped raised millions for charity. Do you do this to the ones who help with BCA/EFA or something? Bernedette? Marissa? Kerry?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:36pm

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.

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:40pm

Sorry... you are right about what you wrote about MDA and I guess that the human race should be more concerned about the charity then who is the host or what he or she did in films. I agree with you about his lack of humor....

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:47pm

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.

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 9/2/03 at 10:57pm

Namo & Jon~ The MDA Telethon is the hallmark of how charity should work, namely consistantly profitable. I've volunteered the TV phones in the Philly area a few times. GREAT people!

But I have a few memories of Mr. Jerry Lewis from when I was 17/18 as a hostess in a BIG venue with BIG stars in S. Jersey. He entertained there in the days when Martin/Lewis/Sinatra were still friends! Mr. Lewis was a "very" off the wall strange man back in those days. He frightened me. Still, I'm impressed at what he's done and sad to see him so ill.

[TEACHEROFTHEATER]

Posted: 9/3/03 at 9:50am

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

:))

[TEACHEROFTHEATER]

Posted: 9/3/03 at 9:56am

"Look At Us We're Walking" was written by two school teachers for the Cereal Palsy telethon about 40 years ago. That was traditionally hosted by Dennis James and Janes Pickens Langley and often cohosted by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme.

Before the Jerry Lewis telethon went national, the Cerebral Palsy telethon was THE primary celebrityladen charity appeal on television.

Posted: 9/3/03 at 11:03am

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.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 9/3/03 at 11:24am

I heard Steve Lawrence was pretty great on the telethon - sorry I missed seeing him.

One of the greatest concerts I've ever seem was Steve & Eydie at Westbury Music Fair a few months ago. Wonderful entertainers who REALLY should have made a Manhattan stop on their "farewell tour". They get my vote for the hippest Jews out there.

On the tasteless-but-for-a-good-cause front, Jayne Mansfield once did a March of Dimes telethon in a bikini and offered to kiss any man in the audience who made a $ 100 pledge. She tripled the charity's intake that night!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/3/03 at 1:27pm

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!

[sheekala]

Posted: 9/3/03 at 1:56pm

Namo, I am one of the select few who has seen a rough dub of "The Day the Clown Cried", it's beyond anything you can dream of....there is scene where he is tearfully leading a group of children to their doom while trying to be brave for them that will have you running to the highest available building in your city, finding access to the roof, and hurling yourself off!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/3/03 at 3:27pm

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!)

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 9/3/03 at 5:54pm

Namo, I remember watching Bette at that telethon. I was fifteen years old. She had blazing red hair, and announced in her Divine Miss M voice: "I will now strip...for ISRAEL."

Like a hot branding iron on a cow's ass it was.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/3/03 at 6:00pm

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