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Article: "MARTIN AND LEWIS" DOESN'T SHED NEW LIGHT.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2002
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Byline: Larry Bonko
IN THE TV BIZ, they're called biopics. Film biographies. Some are good. Some are bad.
``Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows'' won five Emmys. Good biopic. ``Gleason'' chugged along like a slow freight. Not so good biopic.
Somewhere in between the good and the bad is ``Martin and Lewis,'' which airs Sunday night at 9 on CBS with Sean Hayes of ``Will & Grace'' playing Jerry Lewis. Jeremy Northam, a Brit, is cast has Dean Martin, with whom Lewis had a 10-year partnership that ended in rancor.
Exactly why these two split has never been known. Not really. The CBS film is no help here, brushing past the reasons for ...