i dont know much about him. i read through some of the comments and it seems he had a reputation of not being very nice.
No one can bear the scrutiny of nice.
He wrote a good book about his relationship with Dean Martin. But most of what I’ve read indicates he wasn’t a nice guy...and the normal behavior of famous men in the 50s/60s (Kennedy, Sinatra) was hideous. In their defense, a lot of women were happy to go along...
“i read through some of the comments and it seems he had a reputation of not being very nice.”
You can get an idea of what he was like by watching some of his video interviews. He was a jerk.
I’ve watched quite a few interviews with Jerry. Professionally he appeared to have a code and if you fell on the wrong side you were toast. He was also generous with high praise of those he admired.
Can’t speak for his behavior regarding women, but I do know someone who worked at a Yacht company in South Jersey. Didn’t like what one of the workers said and demanded he be fired. John Wayne was checking out a boat there too. Guys on the line loved him.
This article doesn’t tell the whole truth and is an unfair characterization. It may have been very true that he was sexually aggressive with women co-stars, and aggressive with people, but I’ll bet he didn’t remember it. I watched a documentary on him a number of years ago and he didn’t remember his divorce or his remarrying due to his use of an extremely potent pain killer.
At age 39, he fell off a piano during a performance at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas and broke bones in his spine that left him partially paralyzed with constant pain. He was able to perform only after taking Percodan, one of the most potent painkillers on the market. He said that he took up to 13 pills a day. Virtually all people who take Percodan opiates for an extended period get very sick when they try to stop taking them. Furthermore, the more you take, the less it helps to reduce your pain, so you keep on taking higher and higher doses to block the pain. He used it for 13 years and didn’t get off it until after 1980 when his first wife divorced him and he had almost no memory of his second marriage in 1983.
In the documentary he mentioned that normally he had a bell boy come in and mix the drug with hot water so it would get into his system faster when he was on the road and before he got up in the mornings in traction.
I used it when I was hit and recovering in the military in the late 60’s. I, also, had brief disappearance of memory that sometimes lasted an entire day because if I was alone at home, I would take a second helping because I forgot I took the first one. Percodan I was told was guesstimated at seven times the strength of raw codeine. I can understand how he spaced. My caring wife locked it up after I made a trip to see some people about a block away and had no memory of it.
So there is a chance he was not doing this on his own but with the intoxication of the Opioid. And I can vouch for the results of what it is capable of. I went through some DT’s when I stopped taking it.
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He criticised his father, saying: "Jerry Lewis is a mean and evil person. He was never loving and caring toward me or my brothers. I don't know if Joe's death is drug related, but I believe it could have been prevented if he and my father had been on better terms. I believe he partly died of a broken heart. [My father] doesn't really care. He's more worried about his career and his image than his own family." Jan 7, 2010
Gary Lewis Slates His Father Over His Brother's Death
He didn't seem very nice to me.
#5 Even Dean Martin got tired of him : )
I like his movies. His ex-wife said of him that she could tell who he was seeing by who was the leading lady in his films. I bet there were many co-stars and extras he went after.
Below is a video of Clint not being nice to his co-star who he romanced during filming “Paint your wagon”. He and her each got divorced from their respective spouses during the filming and then once the film was over he was over her.
How CLINT EASTWOOD left his co-star FOREVER TRAUMATIZED leading to the beginning of her SAD END!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgtiZ72y9fM