Posted on 08/20/2017 10:54:39 AM PDT by SamAdams76
Not after September 28 he’s not
He lived to the age of 91. I doubt smoking had much of anything to do with his longevity.
Life expectancy for U.S. males is 76.4 years.
He helped a lot of people who needed help. That’s a pretty good legacy.
> [Lewis’s] work for MDA was extraordinary. <
Yes, indeed.
RIP Mr. Lewis. What you did to help MD sufferers was phenomenal. I hope you eventually came to the Lord.
He was before my time so I only got bits and pieces of what he was about. My mother thought he was funny as she used to actually go to the movies he starred in when they came out in the theaters. Pretty much all I remember from him firsthand was his Labor Day telethons when growing up back in the 1970s. All those women in the background waiting for their rotary phones to ring. Out on the YouTube, there are lots of clips from his standup routines back in the 1950s, when he was in his prime.
The Labour Day Telethon used to annoy me as a kid back in the 1970s as it would cut out on the last day of summer holidays Captain Kangaroo and other shows I liked watching during the daytime on CBS (WHEC-TV in Rochester was our outlet). Later on though, I began to very much recognize and respect and appreciate the work Jerry did with the telethon and I was saddened a little when it was finally retired a few years back.
I get the impression that a good deal of progress has been made concerning gene identification and therapy in terms of beating horrid MD and it’s related problems, so I feel good that Jerry lived to see those sorts of successes.
Not having the finances to live a comfortable life at his age that he did, who wants to live to be 91 anyway.....
An assisted living center ain't for me.......
Good Run...
That’s what you Hope for.
I guess this is where we genuflect to the departed, but I always thought Dean Martin made Jerry Lewis. I also never understood their breakup, but like real men, neither gossiped much about it. Their like is all but gone.
It seems like last year and this year have been particularly bad in taking the greats from us.
RIP Jerry and prayers for the family.
ping
RIP
Will France declare a national day of mourning?
I enjoyed Jerry Lewis when I was a youngster but he became a mean self centered man in the latter years!!
I’m sorry he missed his Labor Day goal.
I’m starting to do that when watching old movies too. I go to IMDB and do a search on the Internet for the cast members to see if they are still alive or not. I watched “Silver Streak” on Netflix Friday night, a slapstick movie from 1976 that I remember seeing as a teenager. Pretty much everybody that was in that movie is now dead, even Jill Clayburgh, who was extremely attractive in that movie - especially when you are a 14 year old going through puberty. Seeing it again 40 years later, the movie struck me as dopey, back back in the day, it was considered an “edgy” movie that my parents would have forbid me to watch if they knew what it was about. That Gene Wilder had some good movies in the 1970s and now he’s dead as well.
“Wonder how long he would have lived if he hadn’t been a heavy smoker.”
Forever,of course.
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