Dean and Me
A Love Story
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Gesprochen von:
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Stephen Hoye
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Jerry Lewis
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James Kaplan
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Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions (and the women) flowed in, seemingly without end, and then, on July 24, 1956, 10 years from the day when the two men joined forces, it all ended.
After that traumatic day, the two wouldn't speak again for 20 years. And while both went on to forge triumphant individual careers, Martin as a movie and television star, recording artist, and nightclub luminary (and charter member of the Rat Pack); Lewis as the groundbreaking writer, producer, director, and star of a series of hugely successful movie comedies, their parting left a hole in the national psyche, as well as in each man's heart.
In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of a 50-year friendship, from the springtime, 1945 afternoon when the two vibrant young performers destined to conquer the world together met on Broadway and 54th Street, to their tragic final encounter in the 1990s, when Lewis and his wife ran into Dean Martin, a broken and haunted old man.
©2005 Jerry Lewis (P)2005 Books on Tape
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Gesamt4 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher5 out of 5 stars
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- PeKa
- 27.03.2021
Perfect balance
Having grown up with Martin & Lewis as TV re-re-reruns long after their time I grew up with stories about Jerry Lewis as a self-absorbed and bitter man making honest journalists' lives miserable.
His comedy became so out of tune by the 1980s that the only time I was reminded of him later was when I realized how Krusty the Clown was a kind of comment on comedians caught in the millstones of zeitgeist.
Buying this audiobook was nostalgic curiosity.
Feeling that the world today understands less and less about the complexities of life, fame, social interactions, humour and friendship, I tend to enjoy memories of days gone by people who were actually there.
But would Jerry tell anything interesting?
Would he cater to today's culture by making amends for his life and career?
Would he present Dino and himself in a Hollywood Babylon kind of way?
The answers are yes, no and no.
This book is straight, plain and elegant, tells just enough in order to quench our thirst for facts behind the rumours, adds some spirits to make us contemplate that era and those guys - and never puts ego in the foreground.
It is a personal account, a tidy time capsule and a love letter to a good yet respectfully distanced friend.
This book is like having a drink with Jerry telling you his side of the story and making you feel welcome, listening to personal but never intimate details of things you have always been wondering about.
In this way, this book did a lot to redeem my image of Jerry Lewis in the most pleasant way, by not putting himself in the center of his story.
Stephen Hoye is absolutely amazing!
He has this tone of surprise and involvement in the text that does not seem like acting but reporting.
When he does Jerry, you can see and hear the funny kid you've known since your childhood.
And when he does Dean... boy, it makes you close your eyes and be there right beside him.
What a great little surprise that Jerry's words seem to be mostly read by Dean - smiling down at the now empty stage.
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