I have a confession: I really do love Dean Martin.

Hey pallies, likes on August 10 of this very Dino-month our supremely sold-out to Dino Dino-holic, Eddie-o, swankly suprised us with a post you can view HERE 'bout a beaut of  BBC broadcast recently broadcast tagged "Double Acts" on the powerful partnership between our most beloved Dino and Mr. Jerry Lewis hosted by Mr. Bill Kenwright.  We gotta 'fess up that we have lovin'ly listened to this primo production a number of times alread and we have been likes totally totally spellbound each time we listen.  For the next few days it can still be listened to  HERE.

Likes today's Dino-devotion to Dino-philes everywhere is a response to the Dino 'n Jerry lovefest by Miss Iona McLaren (who is pictured on the left) posted at a Brit blog for news, "The Telegraph.  The prose is tagged "Radio 2's Double Acts shows why Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are still the men of the hour," and is shared below.   We gotta 'fess up that as youse read Miss McLaren's reflections youse will discover that she ain't nearly as superbly smitten as we are with this production, but we were/are/will be superbly smitten by Iona's openin' wonderful words of deep deep devotion to our Dino as she openin'ly and affirmatively 'fesses up, "I have a confession: I really do love Dean Martin."  Such Dino-testimonials always brings that Dino-buddha grin to our faces and such pure 'n true Dino-happiness to our hearts.

We thanks Miss Iona McLaren for scribin' and the pallies at "The Telegraph" for spreadin' the news of this powerful profession of Dino-amore on the ol' world wide web.  Miss McLaren's Dino-love will certainly encourage many more pallies to grow deeper 'n deeper in our Dino...knowin', lovin', and sharin'!  To checks this out in it's original source, likes simply clicks on the tag of this Dino-gram.

We Remain,

Yours in Dino,

Dino Martin Peters


Radio 2's Double Acts shows why Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are still the men of the hour

IONA MCLAREN
15 AUGUST 2018 • 7:00AM


Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were the subject of ‘Double Acts’ in Radio 2

I have a confession: I really do love Dean Martin. Of course, I have to bury my head in my hands when I see him in his tangerine-faced, white-polo-necked later years, draping himself over starlets on Seventies talk shows, occasionally (and this is the worst bit) tottering up to the mic to “croon”. Even then, what saves it is the fact that he so obviously didn’t care. “Wait, what song is this?” he’d ask the band, mid-flow. You can see him dropping ash into someone else’s drink, if it was nearby, or failing that, onto his own trousers.

That wrecking-ball approach to live television goes back to his decade with Jerry Lewis, the delinquent comic in their 1946 to 1956 double act – “the good-looking guy and the monkey”, as Lewis called them. In Double Acts (Radio 2, Wednesday), the gravelly impresario Bill Kenwright tried to put his finger on what made them, in Lewis’s words, “lightning in a bottle”.

This genial hour was unmistakably Radio 2: the voice tone turned up to “fruitissimo”, people talking in a quite unrelaxing way over clips of other people singing. Even if it had your undivided attention, it gave you the impression that you were doing seven things at once. Still, I loved hearing about the pair’s miraculous trajectory: how Martin grew up in a rough Ohio town “with a murder a week” and didn’t speak English until he was five; that Lewis was born in what he called the “Borscht Belt of the Catskills” or “the Jewish Alps”; how they were forced into their first set together at the 500 Club in New Jersey at the behest of the husky, terrifying proprietor “Skinny” d’Amato (known as “Mr Atlantic City”, and not in a beauty-pageant sense).


Jerry Lewis

I also liked feeling as if I were in a room with three people – Kenwright, the late Lewis, and Martin’s daughter, named, with charming laziness, Deana – all of whom loved Dean Martin even more than me. And love was not incidental to the programme. It was Kenwright’s answer to the whole puzzle of what made Martin and Lewis special: “They loved each other.”

This solution felt too tidy. Was there a streak of unhappy romance in the way Lewis talked about Martin? “My god! He’s Adonis,” Lewis thought, when they met. “I fell in love with him.” Later, after their cryptic falling out: “I love him then and I love him now. There’s nothing to be ashamed of.”


Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

And what about that falling out? Martin didn’t like Lewis’s ambition, and called his movies “Chaplin c – p”. But that was as uncheerful as Double Acts got: there was nothing about Lewis accusing his wife of sleeping with Martin, or his jealousy during the Rat Pack years. The Radio 2-ness came down like a portcullis, and it left a job languidly half-done, which I suppose is just as Dean would have liked it.