Jerry Lewis, famed comedic actor died today at 91.

Quite a bit before my time, but a sad loss nonetheless.
RIP, Mister Lewis.

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Edit- Interestingly enough, he actually made one movie that he demanded NEVER to be released to the public. The Day the Clown Cried. And now I MUST find a way to see it.

I would recommend reading this Quartz article or watching Lewis respond talk about it. He did consent to the film being preserved and being available in 2025 through the Library of Congress. It's not as though he ordered it to be burned. He just didn't want to release a bad holocaust movie.

Lewis felt Roberto Benigni stole the idea but made a much better movie in Life is Beautiful, while Robin Williams' Jakob the Liar has a vaguely similar premise of trying to nurture joy or at least preserve hope that wasn't as favorably received (Roger Ebert criticized it as being "contrived and manipulative" and it sounds like it was a much better film than TDtCC).

Life is short, and there are many beautiful things artists want you to see - and many things people would want to keep hidden and secret, and that you also should see for that reason - which seem more important to see than something that is merely bad, which Lewis was open about. This just seems like sausage trimmings that should have been left on the floor but made it as far as being made into links - in theory, good to know it exists to understand the process, but in practice something you wouldn't want to come across your plate, even if it was presented on the menu as a special order item.

perhaps this is just a big coincidence but there's a Scooby-Doo episode called 'The Night the Clown Cried'

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=The+Night+the+Clown+Cried&oq=The+Night+the+Clown+Cried&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8