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2006-06-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2006-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If only it had been Rep. Jerry Lewis instead.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-06-14 00:24|| 2006-06-14 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Jerry Lewis Suffers 'Mild' Heart Attack . . . Panicked France Surrenders to Radical Islamists as a Precaution.

Posted by Tibor 2006-06-14 01:09|| http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com]">[http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com] 2006-06-14 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Frankly I find the preceeding post totally unrelated, offensive and racist.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-06-14 03:53|| 2006-06-14 03:53|| Front Page Top

#4 You should have seen the furor in France when Jerry Lewis went to a well known restaurant, ordered the best dish, the most expensive wine they had... and mixed it with Coca-Cola.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-06-14 03:57|| 2006-06-14 03:57|| Front Page Top

#5 I never understood why, for americans, Jerry Lewis is supposedly a big star in France.
I mean, that's just not true, he's pretty much *unknown*, even more compared to current US actors, and the last time I saw one of his movies on teevee (including cable) was perhaps 10-15 years ago, or even more (I remember only seeing one of his movies in my childhood).
Of course, he got some kind of medal by the french ministry of culture - yes, we have a ministry of culture, subventioned and official progressist culture -, but many others US actors got one as well, including Sylvester Stallone and Robert de Niro.

So, this whole stuff escapes me. Weird.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-14 04:19|| 2006-06-14 04:19|| Front Page Top

#6 that's interesting. So the whole Jerry Lewis is beloved by France is just a highly successful PR blitz? heh, heh. Well I'll be. Give a raise to the guy responsible for that one - if he's still alive.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-14 06:36|| 2006-06-14 06:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Anon,

He was a god of Bazin & the Cahiers du Cinema crowd back in the 60's since he was a good example of what they called an "auteur" (i.e. a director with total production control of his films, like Chaplin and Hitchcock) and he authored a book called "The Total Filmmaker." Also, he portrayed the American everyman as idiot, which appealed to anti-"Ami" bigotry.

JL wore out his welcome in the 80's, with the advent of new theories and the realization that he was not that funny.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2006-06-14 14:22|| 2006-06-14 14:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds like Jerry is headed the way of the Dino ...

[rimshot]

Posted by Zenster 2006-06-14 16:45|| 2006-06-14 16:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Mr. Brown, thanks for the infos.
I didn't even know that, I've read the Cahiers du cinéma perhaps a dozen times in my whole waste-of-skin life, in high school library (very boring and overly intellectual), my jaded tastes leaned more toward the french "Fangoria", "Mad Movies", and a cool mag called "Starfix" (intellectual too, but in an hip way).

Anyway, the 60's are prehistory, the 80's only a bit less, and I maintain he's pretty much unknown to the general french public, except perhaps for the happy fews who read The Cahiers (is there any left?).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-14 17:19|| 2006-06-14 17:19|| Front Page Top

#10 JFM, what post are you referring to?

Posted by Tibor 2006-06-14 17:21|| http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com]">[http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com] 2006-06-14 17:21|| Front Page Top

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