time ago that I have something left that space. Of course, everything has its consequences, or what we do in life echoes in eternity as I said the chuloplaya of Russel Crowe in Gladiator overrated. Last night, without going any further, he appeared in Jerry Lewis dreams to require me to write about it. In the dream I was on a test (contrary to what the convention demand was not lingerie) and forced me to write the biography of an English actor. I stood between sweating and twitching, his heart galloping fast and the mind obsessed with an idea: write about Jerry, Jerry writes about writes about Jerry ... The terror that stalked me probably will not be because Lewis is one of the most unbearable comic actors of all time (unfortunately the time and a generation of Adam Sandlers , Jim Carreys and Ben Stillers relativize the last sentence) but it opens a door to a new form of torture where the sinister characters of this blog I lurk in dreams, demanding their inclusion in this modest and exceptionally roomy. Just thinking that Arnold Schwarzenegger dreams can come between aspen, and more at the thought of accompanying him Joan Crawford, Jim Morrison or Andy Warhol , To name three people who give me more dread Charles Manson and John Gacy together. It can happen in the future I rise to speak to Jerry. And if one day take long to find a mine entrance ask yourself if maybe I've been eaten by one of the guests with no dinner found me unprepared in a dream. 
And talk about the comic, but especially his relationship with his partner and intimate enemy, the glorious Dean Martin, one of the most delightfully perverse association of showbiz ... Martin had little time in the music business when he met a Jewish artist nine years his junior. Jerry Lewis was 20 then and in 1946 joined as artistic partner. Were promoted as the new Abbott & Costello and soon began to take an enormous popularity through appearances on radio, TV and its shows in nightclubs. The young Lewis was the star of the couple, funny, dumb idiot in front of the handsome exemplifying Dean. Lewis also took over the business, making the artistic decisions while Dean spent all, as he liked to do in your particular Epicurean nihilism. In 1949 he signed a contract with Paramount that they will be tied to 1957, beating out 10 movies terrible.
On the way tensions grow in the duet. Dean's figure appears blurred and impersonal, and still waiting for a chance to launch his solo career. The performances are turning into direct attacks, enhanced by the difficult character pasotismo Lewis and Martin, who presents himself at the last hour before performances. In a masochistic relationship laugh at Lennon and McCartney Lewis begins to reduce Dino dialogs, making it a mere decorative item in the escenenario. To make matters worse, Dean gets her solo musical success in 1955 thanks to the hard Memories Are Made of This , which arouses the jealousy of his histrionic and twisted fellow. During the filming of one of his last films almost come to blows, and the preparation of a new script reduces the role of Lewis Dean brief appearances. It's the end of the relationship, they will not talk.
Jerry Lewis comedy relaunched her career after a divorce with Dino. Had prepared a final retaliation fireworks. In what is his best film, The Nutty Professor (The Nutty Professor , 1963), Lewis made a heartbreaking and cruel parody of their partner to be transformed by a magic potion in a beautiful and despicable man, who also sang with the crooner. It was the last gasp showing bitterness hidden in the comic. Dean simply ignore it. Anyway, Lewis's career never went there. His other comedy had to resort to ugly kid model funny - bland pretty boy who had exploited Lewis & Martin. This is Boeing Boeing ( Boeing (707) Boeing (707) , 1965) in which Tony Curtis replacing Dean. Meanwhile Dean had a successful career in musical and a film career with some successes, such as in films of Vincente Minelli ( a torrent 1958), Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo in 1959) or Billy Wilder ( Kiss Me, Stupid in 1964), supported among others by the Mafia and Frank Sinatra . 
And it was Sinatra, in his infinite intention of getting into trouble that neither they nor you are, who tried to reunite the couple. Ironically, said that the work done deserved the Nobel Peace Prize this year. It was in 1976 and did not really big deal. The coupled by surprise at a party, and both cameras by witnesses did not know what to do or say, the tension and discomfort was the only thing they shared that night. Years later Dean Lewis attempted to participate in one of his annual charity festivals muscular atrophy. Martin agreed to go on a date. And he never showed. Lewis still have a say in artistic, indeed, a kind of swan song as a wonderful black comedy. As himself (with the name of Jerry Langford ) Lewis was the best role of his career in the play misunderstood Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy ( The King of the Comedy , 1982) where he was accosted by Robert De Niro one of the best roles of his brilliant career, the psychopath in power Rupert Pupkin. It is urgent to rescue this little jewel of comedy, misunderstood in his time and after his time. Well, that's all. I have done Jerry. Already banned in my dinner. Now leave my dreams and make room again Kim Novak with whom I have much more constructive experience ... 
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