Portrait of Jerry Lewis photographed at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, August 2, 2012.
The Dyed-black hair is now fully gray, the face jowly and furrowed, but Jerry Lewis keeps going at a pace that would make much younger men wheeze. At 86, he still travels the U.S. to do a one-man stage show (the latest, in early July, at the FireLake Grand Casino in Shawnee, Okla.); pops in and out of New York City for events at the Friars Club, which keeps coming up with new ways of honoring him; gets rushed to the hospital; recuperates; and bounces back for more.
Now America's most outspoken clown is pursuing one last, and some would say...
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