Posted on 09/22/2017 1:09:35 PM PDT by EveningStar
Thank you.
Pay attention all you second wives, this shows you to be the bitches you really are when you insist the first wife and kids be cut off.
“In the book he wrote after Dean Martin died, he blamed their split completely on Martin.”
That isn’t how I remember it. The book was called Dean & Me: A Love Story. From Publishers Weekly’s review:
The duo’s fascinating kinship—Lewis idolized his partner, while Martin was aloof—has been chronicled in Shawn Levy’s King of Comedy and Nick Tosches’s Dino, but Lewis wants to give his late partner the credit he feels critics missed by always praising the “the monkey” rather than the straight man. Untangling the complicated union, Lewis doesn’t spare himself, admitting that when the team’s relationship unraveled (they weren’t speaking between scenes on their last film), he became a bully on set and made others the brunt of the anger he couldn’t vent at Martin. Lewis is a wonderful raconteur, and his tales capture the excitement of their budding career and the slow, sad erosion of the fun. Whether it’s his age (Lewis is 79) or his coauthor (Kaplan co-wrote John McEnroe’s You Cannot Be Serious), fans will be surprised and entertained by Lewis’s honesty and diminished ego and bitterness.
From Booklist:
But despite attempts to manage their egos and to handle the other pressures that come from living a fast life, eventually the magic began to fade and the two finally called it quits in 1956. After parting ways, both achieved great solo success: Martin becoming a member of the famous Rat Pack and Lewis a successful writer, producer, and director. Although they never really worked together again, Lewis maintains that he never stopped loving Dean Martin, and indeed this book is an adoring tribute to the man.
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I think second marriages are one of the best reasons for a prenup.
I had a friend who's father remarried. He died two years later without a will. The second wife got everything, and then she died 6 months later. She left everything to her own children.
His kids got nothing.
All of that is true, but Lewis puts the breakup on Martin, claiming he was listening to others whispering in his ear and that he failed to show up at critical junctures that led to the breakup of the pair. He tells the story that Martin quit the team, despite his humbling efforts to keep it together. Of course he wants to give Martin his due. I think most would consider Martin the more successful of the two after the breakup.
Are you pulling our (collective) legs?
Or do you really not understand texas booster's dry sense of humor?
Like remarking that Hitler wasn't the most even-tempered of men, or that Stalin "may" have had "issues."
Regards,
That’s about what my husband said. He said Jerry Lewis was known to be a very nasty person.
“I have his lead guitarist’s Fender amp.”
Is there a story behind that?
No story. Found it in a used instrument store in Parma. Everyone hated those monstrous things! This one was cut down to two speakers. It’s a Twin Reverb amp chassis. It’s now in split cabs; one for the head, and one for a cab holding a JBL 15. Good pedal steel guitar amp!
His “children” are in their 60’s and 70’s. That’s like the Dems do, calling all the DACA illegal dreamer kids “children” when they are all adults now. His “children” are not young, and Freepers should understand this.
Who knows what the family dynamics were. Lewis was married 36 years to his first wife, and 34 years to his second wife. Those are not short-term marriages like you see today where folks get divorced after a few years, and on to the next one. That’s vertical polygamy. Jerry had two very long marriages, and supported his first family until all his kids reached adulthood before his one and only divorce.
Lewis may have been a difficult man to live with, but he made big bucks for both his families to live on, and his two wives were both willing to live with him for many, many years so there was something about him that both of them loved, be it the lifestyle he afforded them or that they really loved him in spite of his flaws. Actually they lived rather autonomous lifestyles as Jerry traveled so much, so if he was difficult, they didn’t have to deal that much with it as he was gone so much bringing in a paycheck. It was his first wive’s choice to stay with him, for whatever the reason.
I don’t condone Lewis not leaving some of his vast fortune to his adult children from his first marriage; I consider that rather mean. It wasn’t the kind thing to do. I would like to know the reason why, but we’ll never know now, Jerry being dead. His second wife probably knows, but I doubt she will in public say why as she is the beneficiary of this decision.
Everytime I heard Lewis speak I thought he seemed bitter and angry. I am not really surprised at this. I have no idea what passed between his children and him, but to disinherit your children is wrong. And he left no mistake about it.
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