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| get well soon, Amr...er, Jerry. |
| "Hey, Laaaay-deee!... [GASP!]... [CLUTCH!]... [Tip-toe tip-toe tip-toe]... [Spin]... [Stagger stagger stagger]... [Sway]... [THUD!]" |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 JFM, what post are you referring to? |
| Posted by: Tibor 2006-06-14 17:21 |
| #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 |
| #8 Sounds like Jerry is headed the way of the Dino ... [rimshot] |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-06-14 16:45 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 2006-06-14 03:57 |
| #3 Frankly I find the preceeding post totally unrelated, offensive and racist. |
| Posted by: JFM 2006-06-14 03:53 |
| #2 Jerry Lewis Suffers 'Mild' Heart Attack . . . Panicked France Surrenders to Radical Islamists as a Precaution. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2006-06-14 01:09 |
| #1 If only it had been Rep. Jerry Lewis instead. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2006-06-14 00:24 |