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false <![CDATA[Dean and Me: (A Love Story)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175798236m/559797.jpg 559797 5 They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clicked—something miraculous—and audiences saw it at once. 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, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces, it all ended. After that traumatic day, the two wouldn’t speak again for twenty 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 fifty-year friendship, from the springtime, 1945 afternoon when the two vibrant young performers destined to conquer the world together met on Broadway and Fifty-fourth Street, to their tragic final encounter in the 1990s, when Lewis and his wife ran into Dean Martin, a broken and haunted old man. In Dean & Me, Jerry Lewis makes a convincing case for Dean Martin as one of the great—and most underrated—comic talents of our era. But what comes across most powerfully in this definitive memoir is the depth of love Lewis felt, and still feels, for his partner, and which his partner felt for him: truly a love to last for all time. 546962 2005 Dean and Me: (A Love Story) total:200|5:53|4:81|3:56|2:7|1:3| 200 774 266 45 4 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 23:31:28 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 23:34:03 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Sep 11 20:25:05 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 07:46:33 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 20:25:05 -0700 2008 1
Lewis portrays Martin as a totally different p...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 21:45:41 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 18:36:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed May 30 11:12:05 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 07:56:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 04 13:08:32 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 13:08:43 -0800 2009 When The Moon Hits Your Eye, Like A Bigga' Piece of Pie, 18 Dec 2005

The conversations between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis always began the same:
"Hey Paul, how you doin'"
"How you doin', polly?"
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To get the few negative things out of the way -- I tire of old school celebrities dropping the family-friendly persona and cutting loose with the f-bombs and other profanities. While this book isn...more...]]> 4 0 false true Fri Sep 12 05:33:08 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 05:34:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 24 14:44:06 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 14:44:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 true false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 18:14:43 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 18:29:43 -0700 2009 2 I have just completed this one for the second go-a-round and find it to be a happy, kinda sad, Jerry Lewis funny! And for the second time, it is even better. I also like the title, Dean and Me, A Love Story. Because it is indeed th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 27 10:01:16 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 10:09:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 00:30:35 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 21:07:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 04:58:53 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 05:05:08 -0700 2008
The Lewis/Martin partnership is one that most "rat pack" f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 03 17:17:17 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 17:39:42 -0800 2008 The book was highly entertaining and worth reading if you...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 21:19:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 21:19:00 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 21 21:48:55 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 21:52:32 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 15:47:41 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 15:59:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 26 11:05:28 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 11:06:36 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 20:12:44 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 20:12:44 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=559797