Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Lewis-Lohan Nexus


Jerry Lewis and Lindsay Lohan are alike, as Mr. Guilfoile's poetic rendering of Ms. Lohan's press quotations (see the previous "post") convinces me. If you care to "click" through and read it (here are some relevant lines: "But all the sicko fans/ And the noise is so distracting") you will see the uncanny resemblance (in subject and tone) between it and Jerry's improvised monologue from THE KING OF COMEDY, part of which I present here in the form of a lovely poem for reasons of symmetry: "I'm just a human being with all of the foibles/ all of the traps/ the show, the pressure/ the groupies, the autograph hounds/ the crew, the incompetence/ those behind the scenes you think are your friends/ and you're not too sure/ if you're gonna be there tomorrow/ because of their incompetence."