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Author Topic: Jerry Lewis has turned 80 Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 03-17-2006 02:37 PM                       Sorry I´m a day late - comedian Jerry Lewis turned 80 yesterday. One of my all-time favorites, I can´t beleive he´s 80 years old!!?? Some of his films has recently been released on DVD in Sweden. Bought them all. I´m not sure, but I´ve heard he is still performing now and then at the Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Can anyone verify this? My hat off for a great comedian! Thomas  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-18-2006 01:45 AM                        Yes, he still appears at the Orleans here - next dates will be July 13 thru 16. Plus this year, the national broadcast of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon returns to Las Vegas after a ten-year detour to SoCal. The national will originate from the new South Coast Hotel & Casino. From 1973 to 1983 I worked on the annual Las Vegas-based national telethon in one capacity or another when it originated from the Sahara or Caesars Palace. Crowd control, followspot operator, second video, camera utility, second audio... Was a lot of work crammed into three weeks each year, but was also a lot of fun. Maybe I'll get to work it again. [ 03-19-2006, 12:32 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-18-2006 07:40 PM                     Paul, If you ran spot for Jerry then you probably know that projectionist/stagehand guy in Vegas that had the big film collection. He passed on about a year or two ago... seemed to me like he had a Russian last name er something like that. He also rented A-V stuff out of his house. He had alot of Jerry Lewis films in that collection and supposedly they were given to him by Jerry. He was an interesting guy.... just can't remember his name. Mark  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 03-18-2006 09:09 PM                     I haven't seen a recent picture of Jerry. I last saw him a couple of years ago and he had gained considerable weight. I assumed it was from medication. Does anyone know how he's doing physically? I had the pleasure of working as an electrician on his "Cinderfella" in 1960 when rumors were flying that he was near death. He WAS exausted and he had to be lifted in a boatswain's chair to do the dance down the long staircase. He did it in just one take.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-19-2006 11:40 AM                        Here's a current pic from his agency: Jerry's been on steroids for years to deal with an old back injury, resulting in weight gain. He's come back down weight-wise and looks better now than he did a few years ago. Not bad for an 80-year-old. Mark, I think you're thinking of Warner Tschaggeny. Yeah, great guy! 2000 posts!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-19-2006 11:43 AM                        Man I thought this guy's been dead for decades! Really!  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 03-19-2006 12:19 PM                     No, not dead but making a zillion dollars in royalty fees for the remake of his old movies with people like Eddie Murphy doing the acting chores. He made a deal with Paramount Pictures to have the rights to some of his movies revert to him after five + years of original release....before Cable, Home video and remakes where even an option  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-19-2006 01:25 PM                     So when's he going to release Day the Clown Cried?  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 03-19-2006 01:38 PM                        I don't think that will happen in his lifetime.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-19-2006 02:31 PM                     quote: Mark, I think you're thinking of Warner Tschaggeny. Yeah, great guy! Yea, thats the guy, His entire collection is here in Bountiful now. According to his sister he was given these prints by Jerry Lewis and several other stars he did follow spot work for way way back. All the Jerry Lewis prints are in near mint shape too. Its a blast to run em. Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-13-2006 09:41 PM                        Saddens me to post that Jerry Lewis suffered a mild heart attack on Sunday. He is recovering in a hospital in San Diego and the doctors say he will make a complete recovery, but his July play dates at the Orleans have been cancelled. At this point he is still scheduled to host the telethon on Labor Day weekend.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 06-14-2006 08:05 AM                        80 years old in body; 9 years old in mind. I mean this with much respect!. Louis  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-23-2006 12:28 PM                        Las Vegas Review Journal link Jerry's back and was looking fine in tuxedo yesterday morning as he conducted the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra for a taped segment of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon to air Labor Day weekend. They blocked off the Strip between 2am and 6am and set up the orchestra in front of Caesars Palace. One of my music profs Dr. Richard McGee, principal trombone and associate conductor for the LVPO and music department chair at CCSN, mentioned on a KLAS-TV8 news spot that he's played on the Strip for 25 years but never in the middle of it. They got it all done in one take, playing Leonard Bernstein's Candide.  |  IP: Logged

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