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I'm reminded of a similar industry crisis, in the fifties and early sixties, when television cut deeply into American movie-going habits; Jerry Lewis spoofed movie executives' defensive pose in "The Errand Boy".
The boardroom scene in "The Errand Boy," in which he takes charge of an imaginary meeting in rhythm with Count Basie's "Blues in Hoss' Flat," underscores the musicality in his movements.
Many of his pictures employed the formula of loose strings of gags and routines centred on Lewis's bungling character in a new job, such as the title character in The Bellboy, a Hollywood messenger in The Errand Boy (1961), and a handyman at a girls' school in The Ladies Man (1961).
On Twitter, Nicholas Payton pointed out that Jerry Lewis's great mogul pantomime in "The Errand Boy" is set to the Basie band's recording of "Blues in Hoss' Flat," composed by Foster, from the album "Chairman of the Board": I'm sad to learn and to report that the tenor saxophonist Frank Foster died today at the age of eighty-two.
On Twitter, Nicholas Payton pointed out that Jerry Lewis's great mogul pantomime in "The Errand Boy" is set to the Basie band's recording of "Blues in Hoss' Flat," composed by Foster, from the album "Chairman of the Board": By Atul Gawande By Anthony Lane By Lidija Haas By John Cassidy By Alan Burdick By Atul Gawande By Anthony Lane By Lidija Haas By John Cassidy.
On Twitter, Nicholas Payton pointed out that Jerry Lewis's great mogul pantomime in "The Errand Boy" is set to the Basie band's recording of "Blues in Hoss' Flat," composed by Foster, from the album "Chairman of the Board": By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Joan Acocella By Jia Tolentino By Jia Tolentino By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Joan Acocella By Jia Tolentino.
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