Jerry Lewis: Compassionate icon or charlatan?
Italy’s most prestigious cultural publisher Treccani has just released another timely piece by Mariella Radaelli of LuminosityItalia – this one exploring the phenomenon of the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon that swept the US with its Labor Day fundraising effort from 1966 to 2010. The story published on the occasion of Lewis’s 90th birthday tries to answer the question of what kind of man Lewis really is and whether he actually advanced the cause of those afflicted with Muscular Dystrophy. Enormously popular In France, the rubber-faced slapstick comedian is also well-known in Italy. Store here (Italian)