“All you have to do,” says author Shawn Levy, who wrote King of Comedy, the definitive Jerry Lewis biography, is to give the plot summary. “If you just tell people: Jerry Lewis wrote, directed and ...

Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, filmmaker, actor, humanitarian and singer, who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy" and has appeared in more than 59 motion pictures, starting in 49. These ...

Jerry Lewis remains one of Hollywood's most influential comedy stars of all time – but the actor and director was also well ...

They first met in 1945, appearing on the same bill at a New York nightclub. Jerry Lewis caught Dean Martin's eye. Better still, the funny kid with the rubbery body made the whiskey-throated crooner ...

Jerry Lewis — the longtime Southern California Republican who served the High Desert and other locales for more than four decades in increasingly influential roles, and who chaired the House ...

Rick Saphire, who managed Jerry Lewis for the last decade and a half of his life, says parsing fact from fiction about the ...

Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even ...

CHERRY HILL — Rick Saphire was just 6 years old when he was personally introduced to the late comedian and iconic entertainer Jerry Lewis. “I met him in 1953,” Saphire said. “My uncle (Ernest ...

A powerful legislator, he became chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in 2005 but faced scrutiny from the Justice Department for his ties to a lobbyist. By Richard Sandomir Once a Labor Day ...