I'm too young to have watched the Dick Cavett Show, thought I did enjoy his cameo in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3.
Anyway, thanks to YouTube and other such sites folks like me can finally see clips from some of these old TV shows, and I must say I'm glad I came across the one below with Jerry Lewis.
Lewis talks about his critics, and it's impressive, to me anyway, that he's willing to listen to a critic who doesn't like him if the critic is competent and has a clear love of film. He even claims to have written to critics and thanked them for negative reviews. Now that we have the blogosphere it's hard for me to imagine such an exchange taking place. If anything, I'd imagine an actor would respond to a negative review by posting something nasty about the reviewer on their own blog. And then I would write about that exchange on this blog.
The video is after the jump. After the commercial break is a brief Q&A with the audience, which isn't especially interesting or revealing.
Celebrate the 4th by watching television!
Stargate Atlantis season five - An early look
Saving Grace season two: An early look
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-20-2007 @ 7:32PM
Chris said...
You know, for all his faults as any human being can have....
Lewis is the man. He may have been a braggart, and boastful, and lived an "interesting" life so to speak, but he backed *everything* up, and on top of that, what can you say about the guy behind the MDA telethon.
The man.
Reply