DEAN AND ME
出版时间:
2006-10
版次:
1
ISBN:
9780767920872
定价:
138.00
装帧:
平装
开本:
32开
纸张:
胶版纸
页数:
340页
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They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and askinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew fromNewark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destinedfor a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis wasdressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But themoment they got together, something clicked—somethingmiraculous—and audiences saw it at once.
Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would beafter them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing anunprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era:radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin andLewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions(and the women) flowed in, seemingly without end—and then, on July24, 1956, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces, itall ended.
After that traumatic day, the two wouldn’t speak again for twentyyears. And while both went on to forge triumphant individualcareers—Martin as a movie and television star, recording artist,and nightclub luminary (and charter member of the Rat Pack); Lewisas the groundbreaking writer, producer, director, and star of aseries of hugely successful movie comedies—their parting left ahole in the national psyche, as well as in each man’s heart.
In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewisrecounts with crystal clarity every step of a fifty-yearfriendship, from the springtime, 1945 afternoon when the twovibrant young performers destined to conquer the world together meton Broadway and Fifty-fourth Street, to their tragic finalencounter in the 1990s, when Lewis and his wife ran into DeanMartin, a broken and haunted old man.
In Dean & Me, Jerry Lewis makes a convincing case for DeanMartin as one of the great—and most underrated—comic talents of ourera. But what comes across most powerfully in this definitivememoir is the depth of love Lewis felt, and still feels, for hispartner, and which his partner felt for him: truly a love to lastfor all time. JERRY LEWIS and Dean Martin sandwiched sixteen money-makingfilms in between nightclub engagements, recording sessions, radioshows, and television bookings during their ten-year partnership.Over the following years Lewis remained in the spotlight as thegroundbreaking creator and star of a series of hugely successfulmovie comedies, and scored triumphs in stage appearances in Europe,where he has been hailed as one of the greatestdirector-comedians of the twentieth century. He wasnominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and has received numerousother honors for his tireless efforts in the fight against thefourty neuromuscular diseases.
JAMES KAPLAN has written novels, essays, and reviews, as well asover a hundred major profiles for many magazines, including TheNew Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair,Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and New York. In 2002Kaplan coauthored the autobiography of John McEnroe, You CannotBe Serious, which was an international bestseller (and #1 onthe New York Times list). He lives in Westchester, New York,with his wife and three sons.
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内容简介:
They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and askinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew fromNewark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destinedfor a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis wasdressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But themoment they got together, something clicked—somethingmiraculous—and audiences saw it at once.
Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would beafter them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing anunprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era:radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin andLewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions(and the women) flowed in, seemingly without end—and then, on July24, 1956, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces, itall ended.
After that traumatic day, the two wouldn’t speak again for twentyyears. And while both went on to forge triumphant individualcareers—Martin as a movie and television star, recording artist,and nightclub luminary (and charter member of the Rat Pack); Lewisas the groundbreaking writer, producer, director, and star of aseries of hugely successful movie comedies—their parting left ahole in the national psyche, as well as in each man’s heart.
In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewisrecounts with crystal clarity every step of a fifty-yearfriendship, from the springtime, 1945 afternoon when the twovibrant young performers destined to conquer the world together meton Broadway and Fifty-fourth Street, to their tragic finalencounter in the 1990s, when Lewis and his wife ran into DeanMartin, a broken and haunted old man.
In Dean & Me, Jerry Lewis makes a convincing case for DeanMartin as one of the great—and most underrated—comic talents of ourera. But what comes across most powerfully in this definitivememoir is the depth of love Lewis felt, and still feels, for hispartner, and which his partner felt for him: truly a love to lastfor all time.
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作者简介:
JERRY LEWIS and Dean Martin sandwiched sixteen money-makingfilms in between nightclub engagements, recording sessions, radioshows, and television bookings during their ten-year partnership.Over the following years Lewis remained in the spotlight as thegroundbreaking creator and star of a series of hugely successfulmovie comedies, and scored triumphs in stage appearances in Europe,where he has been hailed as one of the greatestdirector-comedians of the twentieth century. He wasnominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and has received numerousother honors for his tireless efforts in the fight against thefourty neuromuscular diseases.
JAMES KAPLAN has written novels, essays, and reviews, as well asover a hundred major profiles for many magazines, including TheNew Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair,Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and New York. In 2002Kaplan coauthored the autobiography of John McEnroe, You CannotBe Serious, which was an international bestseller (and #1 onthe New York Times list). He lives in Westchester, New York,with his wife and three sons.
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