Jerry Lewis Articles
Jerry Lewis, Christopher Hitchens: Unfunny Women, Reactionary Men
While accepting the award for Best Comedy for Bridesmaids at the 2012 Critics Choice Awards ceremony, Judd Apatow ended his speech with the following: "Jerry Lewis [photo] once said that he didn’t think women were funny. So I’d just like to say, with all respect, fuck you." Jerry Lewis' negative comment about female comedians was made at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in [...]
Sean Penn, Christopher Plummer, Judd Apatow vs. Jerry Lewis: Critics Choice Awards
Sean Penn and the humanitarians behind him, Critics Choice Awards George Clooney, Viola Davis: Critics Choice Awards Ceremony Speeches Best Supporting Actor winner Christopher Plummer (Beginners) announced he had discovered a substitute for the Fountain of Youth. "I feel terribly young tonight suddenly," Plummer told the crowd, "and, at my age, I need all the help I can get in that department." (Academy members eager [...]
Academy Should Fire Brett Ratner, Some Say. But Will They?
Brett Ratner: Oscar Producer & Gay Slur, (Not) Banging Olivia Munn This is what Mark Harris quite eloquently has to say at Grantland: What I do care about is what the Academy does, which should be either to ask for and receive his resignation from the show or to drop him as the producer of a show that is supposed to represent the best the [...]
Oprah Winfrey Jean Hersholt Award Controversy Has Precedents
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' decision to hand Oprah Winfrey a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the November 12 Governors Ball ceremony, has been widely criticized. Some have remarked that Winfrey, rumored as a possible host for the 2012 Oscarcast, is a television — not a film — personality. Others have complained that Winfrey doesn't deserve the Humanitarian Award, period. Academy president [...]