When I was a kid, I loved the movie “Artists And Models. Watched the whole movie last week on youtube. There was a radio show host here, the late Joe Finsn, who said many times that Lewis was a complete prick to be around.
Great book by grouchy Marx’s son. You can still get it on Amazon.
Talks about him being an ass to people.
Dean never paid back the people that helped him.
If you can somehow find it, I would recommend that you watch THE KING OF COMEDY with Lewis and Robert DeNiro. As I understand it, the director told Lewis just to ‘be himself’ so he improvised many of his lines. In it and in his interviews, I can see a young man who found early success that poisoned his ego - making him an arrogant prick at times. But, he’s a bigger philanthropist than I’ll ever be! Hope he’s well.
Spent some time with the great Myron Cohen and his wife, he hated Lewis.