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N.J. native gearing up for 45th annual telethon for muscular dystrophy
BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
Newark native Jerry Lewis, who is gearing up for this weekend's 'Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon,' had a rather harsh tone when discussing young celebrities who don't give "anything in return" for their fame.
"I'd smack her in the mouth if I saw her," he said when asked what he'd do if he saw troubled actress Lindsay Lohan. "I would smack her in the mouth and be arrested for abusing a woman!"
"She doesn't have the right to do to herself what she's doing," he told Inside Edition about Lohan, who just did some time in jail and rehab. "She's not hurting my business. What she's doing is hurting herself, and that hurts me. It hurts me for her."
According to popeater.com, Lewis, 84, said stars like Lohan and Paris Hilton are "begging for help."
"What they're doing is saying I'm (expletive deleted) up," he said. "Can you help me?"
"I think they need a f*****g spanking! And a reprimand!" he said. "It has nothing to do with [money and fame], it has to do that they have the intelligence of a box of rocks. A bag of snails will give you better answers than those people. I think a great deal of it is ignorance and crying for something other than love."
Chiff.com reports that 2010 marks the 45th Annual Labor Day Telethon — with a bevy of stars and featured performances — lasting more than 21 hours beginning at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, September 5 and lasting through Monday evening on Labor Day, September 6, 2010.
It will be broadcast on some 190 television stations across the country and viewed on the Internet via streaming video at www.mda.org.
According to movies.yahoo.com, Lewis was born Joseph Levitch in Newark, N.J. on March 16, 1926. His parents were both showbiz professionals — father Daniel, who performed as Danny Lewis, was a master of ceremonies and all-around entertainer, and mother Rachel, played piano on New York radio station WOR while serving as her husband's musical director.
His fortunes would change forever in 1945, when he met singer and fellow comic Dean Martin at the Glass Hat Club in New York. The following year, their partnership began in earnest when Lewis was playing at the 500 Club in Atlantic City. Another entertainer on the bill with him dropped out, and Lewis suggested Martin as a replacement.
Myfoxphilly reports that Lewis was a 2009 inductee into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
