{"id":5291,"date":"2006-09-14T07:25:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T11:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5291"},"modified":"2022-10-11T20:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:44:29","slug":"dean-martin-appreciation-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5291","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Lewis: ” I would reprimand him sometimes.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from Peter Bogdanovich’s Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors<\/a>\"\"<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Bogdonavich is asking about Dean – he says “he worked on a totally instinctual level”.<\/p>\n

Lewis responds:<\/p>\n

Oh, yes. Because he always told everybody, “I can go out and drift, he’ll always pull me back.” And vice-versa. Jerry can get as crazy as he wants and who’s the best judge of what Jerry does but Dean. And Dean knew when to pull me back if I was getting in trouble or something. So, we never sat and discussed the enormity of our emotional ties together. But it was always underlined. It was always underneath it all. I would reprimand him sometimes: “Would you sing one, just straight<\/i>? You’ve got a marvelous voice. Go out in the Copa and let the honeymooners hug while you sing a love song.” “I do.” “No, you don’t.” “Yes, you do.” “No, you don’t.” “Yes, I do!” “No, you don’t!<\/i>” He felt his oats really good and clean and solid when we split up. Then he didn’t have<\/i> to do what I thought he did all those years, and that was cop out. Have me as the cop out. “Well, that’s not what got us here – singing.” “No, but it was part<\/i> of it. So you should do it. I mean, honor those who think you’re a wonderful singer, that buy your records and so on.” He said, “You know what we’d be getting if we were two singers?” I said, “What’s that got to do with it?” He said, “Tell me, what if we were two singers and we were hot in the business. Do you think we’d get a grand a week?” I said, “Oh, that’s fucking ridiculous. We wouldn’t be. Two singers wouldn’t have made it.” He said, “How about that<\/i>?” Now, July 25, 1946, the team legally started. And we ended July 25, 1956, to the night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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