Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American FilmMurray Pomerance NYU Press, 2002 - 274 pages The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. |
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... play about film, at the same time being both patently preposterous and also completely true: What timid bookworm is not quietly humming “That Old Black Magic” in his heart of hearts and wishing to be a movie star? What lounge lizard is ...
... played by an actual Lewis who is truly, deeply, originally, fundamentally, and personally as out of control as his character is, if not physically then at least in personality. Who, indeed, but a man completely out of control could so ...
... player in the author's biographical experience. For Fiedler, and for Lewis's biographer, Shawn Levy, Jerry as a person and as a maker of and performer in film has, first and foremost, a personal significance. Since, for many in his ...
... play no important role” and in which “state houses and churches seem to be permanently closed.” Shawn Levy's “Being Rupert Pupkin” is a bittersweet reflection on his own experience writing King of Comedy. Jerry Lewis, it would seem, is ...
... of the types that Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler now play onscreen. The plot structure of Geisha Boy affiliates Jerry's Great Wooley with maternity and unaggressive masculinity, but does so by placing him in 12 MURRAY POMERANCE.
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |