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Jerry Lewis refuses to retire!

October 24th, 2008 by Scott Marks

It’s been almost a decade since Jerry Lewis performed in Australia. On October 14, he told Mike O’Connor at CourierMail.com: “When I left Australia last time it was the beginning of a seven-year sickness that went on and on and on. I’ve only just came through the end of it around February. I’m still in the recovery process but I started to perform again and thank God, it was wonderful.”

Jerry’s been laying low the past few years. Just recently he began performing his nightclub act at several resort casinos. “I’ve been doing concerts around the United States but this trip to Australia will be the first time I’ve left the US since the last time I was in your country.”

O’Connor asked the marvelous Mr. Lewis about the deal he struck with Paramount Studios, in which he insisted that after 30 years, the rights to his movies revert to him.

“Paramount figured that this didn’t mean anything,” Jerry said. “What they forgot was that I was still only in my 30s at the time, so now I’m getting all kinds of kudos because all these films are now reverting to my company. It’s wonderful.”

Residule money continues to roll in from Disney, MGM, New Line Cinema and Twentieth Century Fox, all of which have had to pay Lewis for the rights to remake movies such as The Errand Boy, The Bellboy, Cinderfella and The Ladies’ Man.

In today’s Australian, Jerry said he “still felt like a nine-year-old at heart and had no intention of retiring.”

“Jesus Christ, don’t you understand that when you croak, it’s for a very long time. You want to get in as much activity as you can before you go,” he said.

OH, YEAH!

As for his recent tour down under, Lewis told The Australian that “he turned down a ‘lucrative and wonderful’ tour of Europe to visit Australia again because of the appreciation shown by local audiences.

Jerry tried to shy away from any talk of politics, but he did admit “he would celebrate the end of the Bush administration.”

Lewis’s concert dates are October 26, Opera House, Sydney (tel 136 1000); October 28, Gold Coast Convention Centre, (tel:132 849); October 30, VRC Chairman%2

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Jerry Lewis gun case dismissed

September 20th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Schtick ‘em up!

The marvelous, marvelous Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Karen Bennett-Haron has dismissed the nutty firearms charge against Jerry Lewis.

On July 29, the 82-year-old legend was caught carrying an unloaded gun before boarding a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit at Las Vegas’ McCarran airport. Officers confiscated the 22-caliber Beretta and cited Lewis for having a concealed weapon without a permit.

Jerry said the handgun was a engraved gift given to him during the 2007 Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. “I had a gun in my carrying case … which was given to me by a marvelous engraver,” Lewis said. “Last year, at the telethon of ‘07 he presented me with this gorgeous gift. I put it in that traveling case and I hadn’t traveled since that telethon.”

Lewis recalled, “when (manager Jeff) Low asked if I had a gun, I said, ‘I know what I packed, Jeff.’ Then it all flashed, a whole year flashed in front of me,” The gun was confiscated and Jerry was ordered to attend a court hearing in order to get it back.

On Friday, the case was dismissed after attorneys agreed to let Jerry off without fines. Lewis’ lawyer, Ross Goodman, says Lewis was forced to surrender the engraved gun. Goodman calls the quick resolution “a good result for great guy.”You said it!

My review of Riotous…I mean Righteous Kill somehow managed to turn EC regualr Matt Wilson’s thoughts to the R rated outtakes from the Martin & Lewis laff parade The Caddy. I thought that it would be marvelous to celebrate Jerry’s liberty by posting the notorious, NSFW blooper reel for your listening pleasure. So, come on and join the fun and hear profane radio spots from Paramount’s The Caddy…with a big GLOCK on it!

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