Let’s close our reconstruction of the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon with the ever popular Jerry anthem, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’. Above are two videos–one of Jerry singing it on the 1987 telethon and one of Jerry rehearsing it two years later. Jerry in rehearsal is
Here’s a terrific sampling of the 1975 Jerry Lewis MDA telethon, featuring a good deal of Sinatra, some Totie Fields, a little Harry James and some of Jerry’s greasiest, most self-serving moments. This extended highlights reel is best played in the background while you do something better with your time,
To those of us of a certain age, Labor Day weekend will always belong to the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon. Jerry was at his most Buddy Love-ish when hosting the show, strutting around in a tux, his hair heavily pomaded, a cigarette clutched between his fingers. He often dressed down
Yesterday I posted a charming clip of legendary Portuguese filmmaker Manoel De Oliveira doing a delightful imitation of Chaplin dancing. He was was in his late 90s when it was filmed and it turns out it was not a one-off event. Above we see Manoel dancing with a group apparently
Orson Wells once said that “raising money is my profession, making movies is my hobby” and sadly he spoke the truth. Whenever I feel frustrated by the amount of time it takes to get a movie made, and bemoan how many seemingly inactive years a filmmaker piles up, I re-examine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrhAo9KOCUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WX9znN7CE The commercial campaign for the Revlon fragrance ‘Charlie’, which debuted in 1973, was centered around a very hip little jingle which accompanied model Shelley Hack as she strode confidently through a club, onto a boat, getting out of a nifty 1930s Dusenberg etc. Further hip-ifying the campaign was the
The YouTube artist known as NASS has unleashed a new, wonderful example of his/her/they’s superb work–restoring footage of old urban environments, colorizing them (expertly), adjusting the frame rate and adding a realistic sound bed of background noise. I love these videos and have posted a number of the New York
Let’s take a break from the usual weekend Three Stooges two-reeler. Instead, we’ll listen to an audio-only interview with Moe Howard, recorded in 1973. I don’t know who the interviewer is but, aside from an awkward start, he does an admirable job of stepping back and letting the very friendly
Closing out this Cassavetes-centric week, here’s a very cool piece of film featuring Cassavetes in an unidentified environment (re: hotel room) anecdoting to an unidentified group of people as his adoring wife Gena Rowlands looks on about the making of his first two films ‘Shadows’ and ‘Faces’. The stories are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcgWO-hxZls Here’s an excerpt from an interview with John Cassavetes, taken from the documentary “Cineaste de notre temps” (1968). I feel like I’ve posted the entire doc before (long long ago) but am not finding it on YouTube currently. So this tantalizing bit, featuring Cassavetes driving a convertible along Mulholland