Legendary Hollywood comedian Jerry Lewis dies aged 91

Legendary Hollywood comedian Jerry Lewis dies aged 91

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Entertainer Jerry Lewis, one of Hollywood's most successful comedians, has died aged 91, US media report.

His 10-year partnership with Dean Martin saw them star in 16 films and achieve huge box office success.

Lewis became the highest paid actor in Hollywood, chalking up hits such as The Bell Boy, Cinderfella and The Nutty Professor.

The actor died at his Las Vegas home, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Other notable successes included The King of Comedy in 1983 in which he played a talk show host stalked by Robert de Niro.

In 1995, he became the highest paid star in Broadway history as Mr Applegate in the musical Damn Yankees.

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Eddie Murphy presenting Jerry Lewis with the Jean Hearsholt Humanitarian award at the Oscars 2009 at the 81st Academy Awards
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Jerry Lewis Ad Libs at the Oscars 1959 at the 31st Academy Awards
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Jerry Lewis opening monologue 1957 Oscars  29th Academy Awards
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Jerry Lewis Opening the Academy Awards in 1956
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How Jerry Lewis became a Director
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Jerry Lewis makes appearance at "King of Comedy" 30th anniversary reunion
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Frank Sinatra’s wife dead: Barbara Sinatra, 90, dies from natural causes

Frank Sinatra’s wife dead: Barbara Sinatra, 90, dies from natural causes 20 years after the death of her legendary husband

BARBARA Sinatra has passed away at her home in California.

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The fourth wife of legendary singer Frank Sinatra was 90 years old when she died, following "declining health" in recent years.

The former model spent 22 years with the My Way singer, after marrying him in 1976.

He sadly passed away from a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 82.

John Thoresen, director of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center, reported to CNN that Sinatra died of natural causes. The Las Vegas showgirl was surrounded by family and friends at her home in Rancho Mirage, California.

She was the last of Sinatra’s four wives, their partnership being the longest lasting of the Fly Me To The Moon singer’s marriages.

She first met her future husband when she was asked to be a doubles partner with his second wife, Ava Gardner. 

Frank remained friendly with all of his previous wives, something that Barbara said never bothered her. 

"A very wise French lady once said to me: 'You never worry about old flames. You worry about new ones,'", Barbara previously said.

During her life, she raised funds and rallied support for a number of charities – most notably, the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower Medical Center.

LEGENDARY ACTRESS KIM NOVAK SPEAKS OUT AGAINST OSCAR NIGHT 'BULLIES'

Kim Novak speaks out against Oscar night 'bullies'
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Novak says that cruel jabs about how she looked during the Oscar ceremony amounted to bullying that left her crushed at first, but then determined to speak out in protest.

"It really did throw me into a tailspin and it hit me hard," Novak, 81, said in a telephone interview Thursday, after she released an open letter condemning remarks by Donald Trump and others about her appearance.

In her letter, Novak said: "I will no longer hold myself back from speaking out against bullies. We can't let people get away with affecting our lives."

She had initially remained silent after serving as a presenter with Matthew McConaughey at the March 2 Academy Awards because the comments were so painful, Novak said from her home near the Rogue River in Oregon.

"For days, I didn't leave the house, and it got to me like it gets kids and teenagers" who are attacked, she said.

Trump tweeted during the Oscars that Novak should "sue her plastic surgeon," while others noted how unnaturally smooth-faced the veteran star of "Vertigo" and other classic films looked — even though actresses are pressured to look forever young.

"I'm not going to deny that I had fat injections in my face. They seemed far less invasive than a face lift," Novak wrote in her letter, adding, "In my opinion, a person has a right to look as good as they can, and I feel better when I look better."

Novak's Oscar night speech, which some observers characterized as halting, was the result of a pill she had taken to relax and a three-day fast, she said in her letter.

Novak wasn't the only older actress targeted at the Oscars. She was disturbed, she said, when ceremony host Ellen DeGeneres singled out audience member Liza Minnelli, 68, and pretended to mistake her for a male impersonator. "Good job, sir," DeGeneres said.

Novak said she retains dark memories of her years as a young actress in Hollywood, when she suffered from untreated bipolar disorder and was acutely sensitive to the industry's casual snideness and harsh reviews of her lesser films.

But the Oscar sniping took her aback, Novak said, because she had been given such a gracious welcome during a visit last year to Cannes, France, and gets warm notes from fans.
"I thought, 'Perhaps Hollywood is ready to receive me in a different way.' I was just not prepared for such a negative reaction and it just caught me off guard," she said.

Comments spread fast and far online, she said, and people don't realize you're listening. "It goes over in such a public way now," she said.

It was a commitment to appear at the TCM Film Festival last week that changed her mind about going public with her concerns. Novak, an artist with an upcoming exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio, also showed one of her works, a "Vertigo"-related painting, at the festival.
She was well received during her initial appearance but felt she had to "take the bull by the horns" and deal openly with the treatment of her and Minnelli, she said. Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne agreed to discuss it during an interview that preceded a festival screening Saturday of her film "Bell, Book and Candle."

Novak, who said she takes medication for her disorder, decided afterward that she wanted to spread her message more widely and asked her longtime manager, Sue Cameron, to release the letter.
"I realized that I had to stand up not only for myself but for other people that don't have the courage to do so," Novak said. "I feel like I have a mission."

Online:
http://www.kimnovakartist.com