LOS ANGELES — Labor Day weekend used to belong to Jerry Lewis and his madcap 21-hour Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon.
Lewis hosted the Muscular Dystrophy marathon from 1966 until his last show in 2010.
With his film return Max Rose (opening in one theater this weekend before expanding nationwide), Lewis, 90, is working Labor Day once again. But the legendary performer insists he doesn't miss the weekend telethon ritual for which he has become associated.
“I’m 90, what does that tell you?” Lewis asks during an interview for Max Rose. “You start slowing down. I haven’t slowed down at all, but that’s what you are supposed to do.”
Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy Association parted ways mysteriously, and controversially, over the telethon — with his departure from the program never fully explained. But Lewis takes pride in the event, which he says has brought in $2.6 billion dollars to help battle the disease.
“I don’t know of anyone in the world that has ever done anything that represented 2 billion dollars,” says Lewis.
Here’s what else Lewis is taking part in:
HE'S DIRECTING ANOTHER FILM
Lewis says he is working on a mystery project that he plans to write and direct. He gives no details except that it will be shot in France, where Lewis is a hailed as a genius, and that negotiations are underway.
“It’s a marvelous idea that we’ve got. And when I put it on paper it’s going to be terrific,” says Lewis, adding that it’s too personal to pass on to another director. “I wouldn’t give this to a stranger.”
He does confirm that he will not star in it. For those who wonder if Lewis might go for a current popular movie trend, it certainly will not be a superhero project.
“I won’t even go see those,” says Lewis, referring to the genre in unprintable verbiage
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