tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29213270.post8244186834894749154..comments2024-02-25T11:14:29.460-05:00Comments on TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK: I Gotta Be Me: Jerry Lewis and the Hidden Meaning of HARDLY WORKINGTemple of Schlockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16054224371623000524noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29213270.post-30112701679527213592013-07-20T19:42:36.794-04:002013-07-20T19:42:36.794-04:00Criticism would be more valid if we were able to v...Criticism would be more valid if we were able to view the complete, longer version of the film as released overseas...I have read it clarifies a few story points and makes more sense overall.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10347802611395505232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29213270.post-45382789969604213622013-07-20T19:37:06.657-04:002013-07-20T19:37:06.657-04:00As a Lifelong Jerry Lewis fan, my opinion may be b...As a Lifelong Jerry Lewis fan, my opinion may be biased...but I thoroughly enjoyed Hardly Working when I viewed it as a teen, and I still am fascinated by it's themes. It may not be "laugh-out-loud" hilarious, but as a film and as a fable, it has a lot more going for it compared to most of the big box office comedies made recently---especially the crap being churned out by Adam Sandler.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10347802611395505232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29213270.post-81225164359888758992012-04-10T20:30:25.640-04:002012-04-10T20:30:25.640-04:00Really don't understand your accepting Levy...Really don't understand your accepting Levy's pissing contest with Lewis as a legitimate biography. For a better book on Lewis, I'd recommend Frank Krutnik’s INVENTING JERRY LEWIS, published in 2000. Lewis is as hostile toward Krutnik as he was toward Levy, and there’s enough dirt in the book to keep any dirt-lover happy. But Krutnik is a better writer and wrote a better book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29213270.post-51883322682952742982010-02-08T20:45:12.813-05:002010-02-08T20:45:12.813-05:00“You Skinny Hebrew”
By: Dean Dino Martin
Never bef...“You Skinny Hebrew”<br />By: Dean Dino Martin<br />Never before Available to the General Public<br />(A 1953 humorous & satirical birthday tribute song from Dean Martin to Jerry Lewis)<br /><br />Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995), born Dino Paul Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio to Italian immigrant parents, Gaetano and Angela Crocetti.<br /><br />Martin and Lewis' official debut together occurred at Atlantic City's 500 Club on July 24, 1946 and they were not well received.. More than a few people dubbed them "The Organ Grinder and the Monkey".<br /><br />Lewis and Martin agreed to "go for broke", to throw out the pre-scripted gags and to improvise. Dean sang and Jerry came out dressed as a busboy, dropping plates and making a shambles of both Martin's performance and the club's sense of decorum until Lewis was chased from the room as Martin pelted him with breadrolls. They did slapstick, reeled off old vaudeville jokes, and did whatever else popped into their heads at the moment. This time, the audience doubled over in laughter. This success led to a series of well-paying engagements on the Eastern seaboard, culminating in a triumphant run at New York's Copacabana.<br /><br />The act broke up in 1956, 10 years to the day from the first official teaming.<br /><br />Dino made a public reconciliation with Jerry Lewis on Lewis' Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon in 1976. Frank Sinatra shocked Lewis and the world by bringing Martin out on stage. As Martin and Lewis embraced, the audience erupted in cheers and the phone banks lit up, resulting in one of the telethon's most profitable years. Lewis reported the event was one of the three most memorable of his life. Lewis brought down the house when he quipped, "So, you working?" Martin, playing drunk, replied that he was "at the Meggum" – this reference to the MGM Grand Hotel convulsed Lewis. This, along with the death of Martin's son Dean Paul Martin a few years later, helped to bring the two men together. They maintained a quiet friendship but only performed together again once, in 1989, on Dean's 72nd birthday.<br /><br />Martin died of acute respiratory failure at his home on Christmas morning 1995, at the age of 78.<br /><br />“You Skinny Hebrew”<br />By: Dean Dino Martin<br />Never before Available to the General Public<br />(A 1953 humorous & satirical birthday tribute song from Dean Martin to Jerry Lewis)<br /><br />If you go to the Apple iTunes Store and type "You Skinny Hebrew" in the search line, you will see the Dino to Jerry song.<br /><br />You can also click on this link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/you-skinny-hebrew-live/id352134363?i=352134391&ign-mpt=uo%3D4Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29213270.post-44258656026055650212009-03-23T02:57:00.000-04:002009-03-23T02:57:00.000-04:00I have always been alternately fascinated and naus...I have always been alternately fascinated and nauseated by HARDLY WORKING. I recall reading in the movie mags of the day about how it was coming and was going to be brilliant. Then it never came. When it finally DID show up locally, it played only in the cheapest outlying theaters and I missed it 'til it turned up on TV still another year or two later. The direction and continuity are just plain sloppy, Jerry seems distinctly out of it for much of thr film and so incredibly out of touch!<BR/><BR/>A nice look at a bizarre touchpoint in Jerry's career. Thanks for all the Jerry stuff!Bookstevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29213270.post-2007972456447179772009-03-22T00:32:00.000-04:002009-03-22T00:32:00.000-04:00It's been quite a week, hasn't it? Thanks to Mess...It's been quite a week, hasn't it? Thanks to Messrs. Maciste, Puchalski, et al. for their insights into the Pride of the Borscht Belt.<BR/><BR/>And it'd be nice if some of you schmoes out there threw in a few comments of your own. I can't fight this war alone, y'know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com