Dean and Me (Charnwood)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1847825028 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 349 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. After that traumatic day, the two wouldn’t speak again for twenty years. Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. But the moment they got together, something clicked—something miraculous—and audiences saw it at once. They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. The millions (and the women) flowed in, seemingly without end—and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years from the day when the
Audiences found their mixture of music and ad-libbed, irreverent comedic pandemonium intoxicating. Lewis is a wonderful raconteur, and his tales capture the excitement of their budding career and the slow, sad erosion of the fun. 25)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Whether it's his age (Lewis is 79) or his coauthor (Kaplan co-wrote John McEnroe's You Cannot Be Serious), fans will be surprised and entertained by Lewis's honesty and diminished ego and bitterness. All rights reserved. Photos. First serial to Vanity Fair. . The duo's fascinating kinship—Lewis idolized his partner, while Martin was aloof—has been chronicled in Shawn Levy's King of Comedy and Nick Tosches's Dino, but Lewis wants to give his late partner the credit he feels critics missed by always praising the "the monkey" rather than the straight man. Untangling the complicated union, Lewis doesn't spare himself, admitting that w
It truly was a love story and that surprised me Leora Briggs Hansa This book was very different from what I expected. It truly was a love story and that surprised me. By the time I was born, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were no longer a team. If you heard their names mentioned together, it was often in response to their break-up, not their accomplishments together. It was my understanding that their break-up had been bitter and by the end of their . Kcorn said One-sided or not, this is an excellent memoir!. I was a bit skeptical when I saw this book, wondering if Mr. Lewis could put aside his ego long enough to give Dean his due. Perhaps time and age have softened his perspective beause this is an amazingly fine book and Lewis seems to speak honestly about the ups and downs in his relationship with Dean Martin, as well as his own shortcomings. There is a bittersweet quality to his rem. "DEAN AND ME - A Love Story" IS A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY! Carol Marsella I am not a professional reviewer, but on this book, DEAN AND ME (A Love Story), I am compelled to speak up!Having loved the comedy of Martin and Lewis all my life, I bought this book the very day it was released and enjoyed reading it so much that I am already reading it for the second time. (This is NOT like me!) Oh, it is not great literature, to be sure, but, my oh my, it is a w