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Jerry Lewis was born 100 years ago today. #botd

Happy 100th birthday to Jerry!! Here's him from not only his first movie but my all time favorite movie of his ↑ and here's a crappy photo of him I drew ↓

”Lewis paved the way for a new kind of leading man. In post-WWII America, just as Jews were assimilating into American society en masse, he mainstreamed a non-normative male ideal, the talmudic ‘third gender’, bookish and sensitive, the nebbish, at odds with dominant cultural assertions of masculinity, aggression and swagger.

This geeky, nerdy, sensitive man, able to show vulnerability and affection, won the girl with charm and attraction, not the forceful kiss or rakish seduction. In an early ‘60’s episode of “What’s My Line”, Lewis is asked if he is a romantic leading man and he faux shyly bows his head and demurs. (that gesture, alone, case and point).

But his persona ushered in everyone from Woody Allen to David Steinberg, Dustin Hoffman to Paul Reiser, Paul Rudd to Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler to Seth Rogan, Jessie Eisenberg to Michael Cera.

I'm very shy to asking help 🥹but ...

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😭 I pray that my message reaches a compassionate heart who can feel the pain of me and my children. I know I may sound bothersome, but I am dying every day—of hunger, of bombing, of running from bullets 💔.

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