 Martin and Lewis, at their best — and that means not in any of their movies — had a marvelous tension between them. The great thing about them was their incomparable incompatibility, the persistent sexual hostility, the professional knowingness they...  Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film - Page 128edited by - 2002 - 274 pagesLimited preview - About this book
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...is to say that members of a comedy team have more in common with each other than with anyone else. Martin and Lewis at their best . . . had a marvelous...incompatibility, the persistent sexual hostility. . . .31 Martin and Lewis embody polarized extremes of masculinity.32 The team was by no means simply... | |
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