robertoart Posted August 16, 2012 Report Posted August 16, 2012 . and of course for all you jazz fans (to POOP ON...) Is Triumph Jewish? He is obviously Milton Berle Quote
JSngry Posted August 16, 2012 Report Posted August 16, 2012 Milton Berle was an Irish stride pianist? Don't know how much belief I can suspension to get there... Quote
Pete C Posted August 16, 2012 Report Posted August 16, 2012 His real name was Milton "The Lion" O'Berle. Quote
fasstrack Posted August 16, 2012 Author Report Posted August 16, 2012 Does everyone know the decidely un-self deprecating story about Berle? Reportedly he was among the best, well, ENDOWED men in show biz. A bet was made that this was so and Mr. Television was approached by the bettor for proof. 'How much do you want me to show him' 'Just enough to win'... Quote
Pete C Posted August 16, 2012 Report Posted August 16, 2012 He had a tough time keeping it in a dress. Quote
fasstrack Posted August 16, 2012 Author Report Posted August 16, 2012 'Thweetie, have I got a THUPWISE for YOU'... Quote
robertoart Posted August 18, 2012 Report Posted August 18, 2012 He had a tough time keeping it in a dress. 'Thweetie, have I got a THUPWISE for YOU'... Quote
fasstrack Posted August 23, 2012 Author Report Posted August 23, 2012 He had a tough time keeping it in a dress. 'Thweetie, have I got a THUPWISE for YOU'... If that shot was a little longer they'd have to say 'boner track'---and we'd know what the mohel knows Quote
Pete C Posted August 24, 2012 Report Posted August 24, 2012 ---and we'd know what the mohel knows What evil lurks in the foreskin of baby boys? Quote
JSngry Posted August 24, 2012 Report Posted August 24, 2012 Hey, you've got to hide your love away. Quote
fasstrack Posted August 24, 2012 Author Report Posted August 24, 2012 (edited) ---and we'd know what the mohel knows What evil lurks in the foreskin of baby boys? Maybe part of the self-deprecation and a built in sexual low-self esteem based on, um, dimensions, begins with the removal of said foreskin. It's a hell of a way to start life a week in---a little 'short'--compared to, say, our Sicilian brothers whose mothers in the first days after birthing male children are rumored to.....well don't make me say it! I'd say they they may just view life as way more fun getting that kind of, um, 'head' start. Edited August 24, 2012 by fasstrack Quote
fasstrack Posted August 25, 2012 Author Report Posted August 25, 2012 Saw Stardust Memories yesterday on DVD. Not bad at all. I think he used the Fellini elements in a good, absurd way: weird, ugly people horning in wanting things from this guy who can barely figure out his own life. He nails the shallowness of the Bates character and the idiocies of the harpies. What I didn't like or appreciate was that fake-out 'ending', where he's shot and killed by a fan, but not really. When he's 'dead' he realizes that he had a good life with Dorrie despite all his tribulations. The film should've ended there, with his little epiphany. Instead he wakes up from what was merely a faint and goes off with the Isabelle character. But it was a good send up of stars and hangers-on, explored again later in Celebrity. Quote
fasstrack Posted September 2, 2012 Author Report Posted September 2, 2012 (edited) I was in South Fla. W/tine to kill, so I grabbed a stack of DVDs from the library (FYI the W Palm Beach Pub. Lib. on Clamatis St. is one of this country's best IMO). One was the Errand Boy which came as a 2-fer w/Lewis's better-known Nutty Professor. It was a scream-about a kid a Hollywood studio exec makes a gofer/spy b/c they're losing money and a mole could find out why/who. So who does he pick? Naturally- into the toilet, the Lewis character muffs everything, annoys everyone. But, w/o giving it away, he wins after all. Funniest scene: he asks some boys if they want to learn basketball. Naturally they turn out to be pros and kick his ass around the court! The thing that I finally got: Jerry Lewis is not just the king of physical comedy, he's the ultimate self-deprecator too, a bumbling monkey (HIS word, BTW) who ruins all, doesn't get the girl (at first...), etc. But he MEANS well-and the difference between he and Woody Allen, besides his films not being cerebral and talky is that sweetness-and his world view is sunnier. And he gets that girl in the end. What better pet than a monkey? Edited September 5, 2012 by fasstrack Quote
Pete C Posted September 2, 2012 Report Posted September 2, 2012 I'd hate to be in South Florida without time to kill. Quote
fasstrack Posted September 5, 2012 Author Report Posted September 5, 2012 I saw To Rome with Love a few days ago. FWIW it was one of his best in a long time. Still playing the nebbish. Judy Davis as the wife got all the zingers. Deprecation by spouse---another time-honored Jewish (and non-sectarian) tradition! Quote
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