I Love Martin & Lewis Apparently

Mostly Martin & Lewis. Sometimes other dead guys turn up. Talk to me, I don't bite.  Not my main blog

[martinandlewis]

Hello, dear pal! I love dead peapole and of course, our boys, Dean and Jerry. I totally enjoy your content, (thanks for that), and I would like to ask you about Dean and Jerry's playhouse! What happened with these? Thank you anyway!

oh wow I haven't been here for a while.

As for Dean and Jerry's playhouse do you mean the actual house that they had like fun in or hung out in? What do you mean like fanfiction series?

Cuz while I do have Martin and Lewis fanfiction I never did anything specifically clubhouse related but I do remember an old user that had that going on.

I'm not really on this account anymore but I'll check back and see what you mean by this.

Also thank you for appreciating the content Martin and Lewis brought me a lot of joy and I'm glad it did for you too.

[oh-brotherr]

Favorowdy doodle 😇😇

[oldshowbiz]

The New Odd Couple (1982-83) starring Demond Wilson and Ron Glass

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Julie Newmar

[morguesmakesit]

In the Valentine’s Day spirit.

[oldshowbiz]

1981.

TV Guide on Cocaine.

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[celestialspurs]

kinda forgot to post this. smooch.

[chungledown-bimothy]

I cannot overstate how much I love Tom Lehrer's story. It sounds so fake but is entirely real.

He's a goddamn genius- he started studying mathematics at Harvard when he was 15 and graduated magna cum laude. He worked at Los Alamos for a few years before being drafted and working for the NSA, where he claims to have invented jello shots to get around alcohol bans.

He then went back to Harvard for a couple years before starting to teach political science at MIT.

Through all of that, he was writing and performing both some of the funniest shit you'll ever hear (Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Masochism Tango) and absolutely scathing political satire (Who's Next, Wernher von Braun, Send the Marines). Until the mid/late 60s counterculture gained momentum. He didn't like their aesthetic, so he stopped making music.

Shortly after, he moved to California and started teaching math and musical theater history at the UC Santa Cruz for the next 30 years.

I don't know if non-Californians understand just how goddamn funny that is. It's where stoners and math (and now computer science) kids who couldn't get into Berkeley go. Leaving Harvard/MIT for UCSC is peak academic phoning it in. And by all accounts he had a blast.

Plus the whole putting all of his music in the public domain thing. That fucked.

[ralfmaximus]

Also he is still alive! 95 years old as of November 2023.

[trilobiter]

The other day @piecesoftape sent me a text that said, "you probably got a notification for this, but Tom Lehrer outlived Kissinger."

There's a quote attributed to Lehrer, probably in answer to why he stopped performing, that "political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I am delighted to report Tom Lehrer is still with us as of January 13, 2025.

[oldshowbiz]

The Rage Of Lewis

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[lowereastnowhere]

In honor of infamous opponent to human rights Anita Bryant finally croaking, let's remember that time Vincent Price told her to fuck off with that homophobic bullshit in an immaculately cultured, polite way. 🫡

[luciferetlucia]

Bela Lugosi sculpting his own bust, circa 1932

[uhrich]

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[ladybegood]

Joan Crawford in a publicity photo for Letty Lynton (1932)