Posted on 08/20/2017 12:32:47 PM PDT by Jim W N
One of my brother’s favorite movies. Hadn’t heard that title in a long time.
What a riot. I really liked Mark Lindsay and Paul Revere & the Raiders. I saw them live in S.F. in 1965 with the Rolling Stones. PR&R put on an incredible show as did Mick Jagger and the Stones. Pretty cool stuff. I actually went to a private party once in La Honda, CA where the Turtles played. That was also pretty cool.
I would have liked to have seen some of that “Happy Together” tour.
I wonder what Gary Lewis’ relationship was like with his dad Jerry Lewis.
Yeah, smoke four packs a day that killed him, drank himself silly all day long. Yup. I simply wasn’t a fan of his.
Yeah, smoke four packs a day that killed him, drank himself silly all day long. Yup. I simply wasn’t a fan of his.
You disliked him so much because he smoked a lot of cigarettes? In any case, the excessive drinking persona apparently was more part of his routine, a "shtick", than reality.
“Yeah, smoke four packs a day that killed him,”
How on earth would you possibly know that?
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I have a CD of that movie and never get tired of watching it. Funny from start to finish. Actor Raymond Burr is funny as a villain in the movie, who then went on to play Perry Mason on TV series.
Have you seen Lewis & Martin in movie “you were never too young”?
Probably clips, but not the whole thing.
“It was the French dubber who was a great comic... In French !”
very interesting! makes total sense when you think about it.
Read it some place after his death. He was a heavy smoker.
you must be king of his fan club. go away I don’t have time for whine bags.
IIRC he quit when someone promised a huge donation to the MDA if he quit.
Nevermind, I see now you were referring to Dean Martin.
“Read it some place after his death. He was a heavy smoker.”
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And he made it to age 78,which is a good,long life——more years than many get.
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Death:
Martin, a heavy smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in September 1993, and was told that he would require surgery to prolong his life, but he rejected it. He retired from public life in early 1995 and died of acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly Hills home on Christmas Day, 1995 at the age of 78.[
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/03/entertainment/la-et-0903-jerry-lewis-20100903
...he also has suffered a litany of health problems, many related to his extreme lifestyle.
Besides prostate cancer, diabetes and open-heart surgery, there’s the nasty case of viral meningitis Lewis got performing in Australia, pulmonary fibrosis thanks to his longtime five-pack-a-day smoking habit (Lewis ballooned up to 280 pounds for several years consequent to a medicine he took for the condition), chronic back pain from chipping his spine during a pratfall at the Sands Casino, as well as accompanying bouts of addiction to prescription painkillers and even suicidal depression...
Thanks.
Interesting that he refused surgery-—and lived 2 more years and then emphysema took him,not cancer.
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Hmmm. That Burr part sounds intriguing. Might have to look into it.
“I couldn’t stand him.”
Same here, and felt the same way about Bob Hope, but greatly respected Jerry’s MD work, and Bob’s devotion to our armed forces.
LAAAAADDDYYYYYYY
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