Columnist: ‘The problem with Jerry’
December 13th, 2008
By Shawn Levy in the [Portland] Oregonian:
Gay rights advocates are reportedly complaining to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences about plans to give a humanitarian award to Jerry Lewis (left).
The comedian, who hosts an annual telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Society of America, has used anti-gay slurs in public at least twice in the past two years, once on his telethon and once on Australian radio. An excerpt:
… the Hersholt award isn’t for the head but the heart. In the vast, karmic scheme of things, this man has done far more good than bad. Trust me.
Earlier post here.
(Photo from [Portland] Oregonian.)

