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The Straight Man, The Monkey, and The Unspoken
“Help!”
Somebody is drowning.
“Help!”
As a sense of alarm creeps over the crowded Atlantic City beach, a body swiftly cuts through the confusion and dives into the ocean. Pulled from the surf is a skinny adolescent man, seemingly unconscious. As a crowd forms around the body, his dark-haired savior readies himself to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Right as the anticipation of glimpsing a heroic feat begins to backslide into the panic of witnessing a horrific tragedy, the dead man’s eyes snap open and he springs upright.
“I’d rather have a malted, sir!”
“We’re fresh out,” retorts his Italian cohort. “Hey, don’t I realize you?”
“I’m Jerry Lewis!”
“And I’m Dean Martin!”
“I know that–I’m at the Club with you, first show is at 8 o’clock!”
The plug delivered, rescuer and rescuee then run like hell before the crowd has a chance to strangle them.
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The phenomenon of Martin and Lewis was always less about the uniqueness of the gags and more about the recognition of the spark between them. Legendary comedian Sophie Tucker gleamed this almost immediately when, one daytime at the beach, she saw and recognized this drowning stunt as a
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The record so upset the FBI that they kept bringing it up as some sort of evidence of moral depravity that Dean and Jerry dedicated. Edgar J. Hoover was obsessed with finding out if people were either gay or communists basically. I'm not sure how reputable this person is who outed Dean and Jerry and "classified them as gay." They are only known in the FBI files of Dean and Jerry's, as an "admitted homosexual" since the name is blacked out. I presume this person may still be alive, since their name is still redacted.
Jerry clueless a contract to operate on a project that he wanted the FBI to be portrayed in. FBI agents brought up Jerry's records (The Caddy outtake and the suspected gay accusation), to the FBI director who approved the project, and he canceled the contract and the approval of any FBI portrayal in Jerry's tv series that he wanted to produce.
Also Edgar J Hoover refused to meet with Jerry when he wrote to him asking for a meeting, because he suspected him of being homosexual
Did Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ever fuck?
Well, Jerry Lewis did write a book called "Dean and Me; A Love Story".
He makes no bones about it. He worshiped Dean Martin but at the same time, the push, producers and the audiences wanted more Lewis. Lewis' brand of comedy was something new, whereas Dean Martin, as talented as he was, was just a straight man and a crooner. This made Martin bitter and increasingly standoffish with Lewis. Lewis didn't understand why and was increasingly hurt by Martin's distance.
He does recount the closest they ever came to having sex. They were in a hotel room and Jerry was increasingly itchy. Dean Martin knelt before him while he took down his pants and examined him. It was crabs (which Jerry had never had before). Jerry recounts saying, while Dean was examining him, 'I always knew we'd come to this' and Dean replied 'The day that happens, the partnership is over!'
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Mark Simpson pays tribute to Lewis & Martin, &#;the hottest male comedy double-act of all time&#;
(Originally appeared in Out, May )
Forget hair whorls, genomes, amniotic fluid, older brothers, domineering mothers or disco. I can reveal with absolute, religio-scientific certainty that the cause of my homosexuality was just two words: Jerry. Lewis.
As a kid in the s I watched TV reruns of his movies, especially the ones from the soon fifties with his on-screen boyfriend Dean Martin, with a level of breathless excitement that nothing came close to – until I discovered actual buggery in the s.
Films like Money From Home where he pins Martin to the bed wearing a pair of polka dot shorts camper than Christmas in West Hollywood (), and Sailor Beware (), where he is pricked by several burly USN medics wielding ever-bigger needles until he squirts liquid in all directions and faints made me the man I am today.
Earlier this year, after a lifetime of being ignored by a cross-armed Academy Awards that never gave him so much as a nomination when he was making movies, Lewis is finally getting an Oscar.
But not for his hilariously cute films with Dean Mart
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