Hoffmania! (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
I was a huge Jerry Lewis fan when I was a kid, and I think this show killed it for me. The clip here is the show's opening and closing credits, blessedly leaving the worst part of the show out....
PowerPop (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental manservant Hop-Sing and I are off to Paris, France, home of the Ignoble Frog, for the first annual Jerry Lewis Pro-Am Percodan Tasting Tournament . Sounds very existential, so just in case I'm having my beret re-blocked. In any case, posting by moi will necessarily be sporadic for a few days. But in my absence, here's a fun project for...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
DeBakey's patients list ranged from such world leaders as the abdicated King Leopold of Belgium, the Shah of Iran and King Hussein of Jordan, to Hollywood figures like Jerry Lewis, Marlene Dietrich and Danny Kaye, to U.S. Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.
BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
$19.50 for 50 gallons!!?? WOW!! But then...you had to put up with nebbishes like that guy at so-called "service" stations. Still, I paid $33.00 for gas the other day and it barely got my tank half full. Low prices might be worth the nebbish cost. Nostalgia...as they say...isn't what it used to be.
With Leather (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
This is a guy named Remi Gaillard dressed as a hockey player crashing into clear plexiglass around a city. Now, I'm naturally wary of any humor video created by a Frenchman -- those people adored Jerry Lewis, fer chrissakes -- but I'm decidedly FOR people getting their face hurt, so I've decided to go ahead with publishing this. Plus it's a great way to make cheap jokes at hockey's expense. Hey look!...
Fiddle Dee Dee (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
I love reading the letters to the editor. One writer wants to invite Jerry Lewis to the Dean Martin Festival next year. HEY LADY!! And still another writer said: "We need Democrats, not Republicans, in our country." Um, just where...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Jerry Lewis in 3-D! The Korean War in 3-D! The Frankenstein Monster in 3-D! Even naked stewardesses in 3-D! Hollywood has been trying to sell movie audiences on the third dimension for more than half a century. Every couple of decades or so, a rush of 3-D product starts hitting the screens, billing itself as the next big thing in movie technology. So far, the hype has never quite matched the reality....
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Politico: Tempers flared and the House Appropriations Committee abruptly adjourned Thursday morning after Republicans sought to hijack the meeting agenda and force a vote on their hottest new political issue: easing restrictions on offshore drilling for oil and gas. California Rep. Jerry Lewis, the panel’s ranking Republican, said he was forced to spring the legislative trap when he couldn’t get a...
Inland Empire California (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday, Congressman Jerry Lewis said.
Shoot The Moose (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Yes, I have lots of news to pass along, and, I’ll be doing that shortly. But first, I’d like to ask your help with a project I’m doing at Ugly Betty News. b5Media, the network to which UBN belongs, is sponsoring a “Blog-a-thon” to raise money for two different charities. The Entertainment Channel is raising money [...]
BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Move America Forward is sponsoring a drive to send care packages to the troops: The grand finale for the push will take place on June 26th when a Jerry Lewis style 8-hour Internet Telethon ("From the Frontlines") will take place. This cutting edge production “From The Frontlines” will be broadcast live online by UStream.tv and hosted by Melanie Morgan & Michelle Malkin. Live and taped reports will...
Gadgets 2008 (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Just because you’re living la vida digital shouldn’t mean that all your digital hassles have to follow you wherever you go, like a stray dog or (worse yet) Rupert Pupkin, Jerry Lewis’ deranged fan in Martin Scorsese’s “King of Comedy.” Text-message spam is merely a 21st-century example of the annoying telemarketer who majored in Bad Timing. Cell phone carrier services are slowly waking up to the idea...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
During his years as the star of the TV series “Knight Rider,” David Hasselhoff was asked to sing at Jerry Lewis' annual Labor Day telethon.
news from me (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Jerry Lewis is famous for saying — in an annoying, high-pitched voice — "Hey, lay-dee!" Right? Of course. You've all heard him say it. So how come some friends of mine who need a clip of him saying this can't...
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Here we see the same gag in two Frank Tashlin films more than 10 years apart: first a wolf trying to eat a single pea as a complete meal in "I Got Plenty of Mutton," then Jerry Lewis doing the same thing with a bean in Artists and Models. Greg Ford mentions on his commentary for "Mutton" that Tashlin also wrote this gag, uncredited, into "Mickey and the Beanstalk," but I haven't seen that in a while....
