Jerry Lewis "Guest Shot", Playboy Magazine, January 1996...
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The Nutty Professor (1963)
'Guest Shot' by David Stine
Jerry Lewis acts nine, looks 50 and is the proud papa of a three-year-old--yet he's been in the business so long that Chaplin was HIS fan. "I'm far from modest, but I'm uncomfortable with the word genius," insists the 69-year-old nitwit savant. "Chaplin and Stan Laurel, they were geniuses. Now Robin Williams is the only reason the word is in the dictionary." Lewis is frank about what he considers unfunny video fare ("Monty Python should be put to sleep--immediately"), opting instead for "heavy-duty filmmaking" such as The Sting, Victor/Victoria and Steel Magnolias. But the Kipling yarn Captains Courageous (1937) is his all-time favorite because of the "impeccable perfection" of its story. So out with it, Jer: What's the best Lewis lunacy on vid? "The Nutty Professor was a ten-year labor of love," recalls the man who invented dumb and dumber. "It's my best work." We agree.
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