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Some viewers eagerly anticipate squirming; that's the fun of live TV. On Sunday night the big chances for it rested upon Rourke - his acceptance speech the night before at the Independent Spirit Awards was five minutes of wondrously ribald thank-yous and genial insults - and Jerry Lewis, the legendary...
Alas, non. A subdued Lewis spoke only briefly, in a grateful and serious, almost stricken tone. Veteran Oscar watchers hoped in vain to glimpse the Jerry who, as the Academy Awards host 50 years ago, cavorted and mugged for nearly 20 minutes when he was told the show had run...
PHILADELPHIA—In trying to grab its first win at the Palestra since 1991—also the last time Harvard got a victory on the tough Princeton-Penn road trip—the Harvard men’s basketball team needed to correct the mistakes that contributed to...
Some say Martin showed up in Lewis's most coherent film, The Nutty Professor, in 1963. A vamp on the Jekyll-Hyde story, it has Jer as ultra-nerd Julius Kelp, who sports goofy bangs (the following year they'd be cool, when the Beatles wore them), prominent teeth, and...
In the late '60s, Lewis's film popularity waned. In his 40s, he had not found a maturer version of the crazy kid audiences had once loved. The low point came in 1972, when he starred in and directed The Day the Clown Cried, a sort of Bozo at Auschwitz...