Posted on 08/20/2017 9:16:37 PM PDT by topher
He didn’t want “The Day The Clown Cried” because he thought it was awful. I got the impression that it was a project where his heart was in the right place, but the execution of the story just didn’t work and it was just too maudlin and disturbing. It seems like it was better handled with similar subject matter in Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful.”
Jerry Lewis was a f***king GREAT AMERICAN, period.
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