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Article: Thank you Jerry much. (interview with comedian Jerry Lewis) (Interview)
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- Interview
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- April 1, 1995
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Broadway-bound, the great Jerry Lewis bares his comic soul
Was there ever an entertainer as driven, as egocentric, as giving, or as complex as Jerry Lewis? Look at the hats he has worn. Beloved Borscht Belt geek, most successful American comedy actor of the postwar period, endlessly inventive auteur (lone successor of Keaton and Chaplin) adored by French cineasts, tenacious telethon presenter (raiser of millions of dollars for children with muscular dystrophy), acerbic Las Vegas phenom: Lewis is the personification of the American Dream in all its sweetness and bitterness. Try reconciling the simpering, sentimental, ergonomically challenged fool he played through the ...