By Matt Chaban 9/28/11 3:40pm

Landmarks

Jerry Lewis, oui, oui. (Associated Press)

Happy 125th Birthday, Lady Liberty! You’re Almost as Popular as Jerry Lewis

“I learned a few things today,” Ariane Dagun said from the top deck of the Lady Liberty ferry, which was motoring back toward Battery Park last Thursday morning. “I discovered that Bloomberg and Sarkozy are the same height, which was convenient for the podium. They did not have to change anything, since Sarkozy is very self-conscious about his height.”

Ms. Dagun was one of more than 100 New Yorkers, Frenchmen, and most of all French New Yorkers like herself, who had made the journey to Liberty Island with the president of France and the mayor of New York. They were there to celebrate the statue that country presented the city 125 years ago. Read More

By Nicholas Boston 6/19/06 12:00am

Jerry Lewis Roasted Again; An Abbot Amongst Friars!

Jerry Lewis, 80 years old, was soaked with sweat. He sat at the center of a banquet table at the New York Hilton’s Mercury Ballroom last Friday, May 9. It was the Friars Club’s annual roast, and Mr. Lewis—this year’s man on the spit—was also there to accept his appointment as the new abbot of Read More

By Andrew Sarris 2/06/06 12:00am

Winterbottom’s Witty Tristram: Brits Battle in Meta-Comedy

Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, from a screenplay by Martin Hardy, based on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, turns out to be a remarkably successful spoof of period-costume filmmaking by way of a wacky Pirandellian pirouette across Sterne’s digressive 18th-century novel, which one character Read More

By Andrew Sarris 2/06/06 12:00am

Winterbottom’s Witty Tristram: Brits Battle in Meta-Comedy

Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, from a screenplay by Martin Hardy, based on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, turns out to be a remarkably successful spoof of period-costume filmmaking by way of a wacky Pirandellian pirouette across Sterne’s digressive 18th-century novel, which one character in Read More

By Scott Eyman 10/31/05 12:00am

Spontaneous Combustion: Martin and Lewis in Two Acts

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were successful in the movies, but not really great—one of the authentic crazy acts was reduced on celluloid to processed cheese, just like Elvis Presley. Martin and Lewis lived and died by spontaneity, and that’s tough to translate to film, what with plots, rewrites and retakes.

No, to understand what Read More

By Drew Friedman 11/22/04 12:00am

DVD’s, Videos, TiVo, Downloadables

The Nutty Director

The world (not including France, of course), is broken down into two distinct camps: those who hate Jerry Lewis, and those who love him. There is no in-between. I’ve always fallen into the latter, which is why it’s a treat to finally see Mr. Lewis receiving his due as a great film Read More

By Noelle Hancock 8/25/03 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 20th

Well, now we know what happens when we plug in our hair dryer and our flat iron at the same time …. Since our calves are still aching from our unfortunate decision to live on the 30th floor , tonight we’re plopping our bumsey on the grounds of Rumsey Playfield in Central Read More

By Andrew Goldman 6/11/01 12:00am

The Professor’s Still Nutty

Anybody who knows anything about Jerry Lewis knew the moment

would come. It was about a half hour into his sold-out motivational speech at

Congregation Rodeph Shalom on West 81st Street, and Mr. Lewis-unaided by notes

or the stricture of any discernible order in the things he talked

about-swiveled his neck to hear the question Read More