![]() I don’t really know what’s true, but, in a way now, it doesn’t matter. His story is interesting, in a ‘Big Fish’ kind of way. He could play Brahms on a chromatic harmonica. They were doing live covers of the songs of the day. “Harmonica, drum machine, bass guitar,” Lewis said. The two met at an audition in Las Vegas and, in the seventies, formed a lounge act called Love’s Way. Her mother had been a longtime heroin addict. Her latest record, “On the Line,” which features guest work by Beck, Don Was, Jim Keltner, Ryan Adams, and Ringo Starr (who showed up in the studio one day), channels, among other things, the recent death of her mother, from whom she’d been estranged for twenty years. “I was channelling whatever you’re channelling when you’re turning forty and in a new city and out in the world for the first time,” she said. Make friendship bracelets, register to vote, whatever.” She and Thomas and another friend formed a one-off low-fi band that they named Nice as Fuck. “It was a space for young women to come hang. (“They have the world’s crunchiest salad,” Lewis said a few times, with a giggle that suggested it was an old inside joke.) She had fled Los Angeles, her lifelong home, to get away from some “post-breakup vibes,” and had found rejuvenation in the company of her friend Tennessee Thomas, who had a little shop, on First Avenue, called the Deep End Club. Mogador had been her food go-to when, a few years ago, she’d lived in a nearby apartment that belonged to Annie Clark, who records as St. She had reddish bangs and serious eyelashes. “I’m proudly wearing my own merchandise,” she said. The next afternoon, Lewis was still in her blue sweats, drinking natural wine and picking at a plate of cooked carrots at Café Mogador, in the East Village. The look said stoner slumber party meets cult of Heaven’s Gate. Gerard as Lewis' great rival Elvis, and Steve Allen as himself.Earlier in the summer, Jenny Lewis, the singer and songwriter, performed her new song “Wasted Youth” on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” She and her band wore a matching getup of white Nikes and Mets-blue sweatpants and sweatshirts, chests adorned with an image of a skull smoking a joint. Featured in the cast are Alec Baldwin as Jerry's cousin Jimmy Swaggart (the same!), Michael St. Otherwise, Quaid is terrific as Lewis (expertly lip-synching to the original records,) and Ryder is equally good as the long-suffering Myra. After establishing a brisk, satirical tone through most of the proceedings, the film plummets into heavy dramatics in its final portions, jarring disastrously with all that has gone before. When it is revealed that Myra is only 13 years old, Lewis is condemned as a molester and pervert by the public (his disastrous tour of England during this crisis is depicted in hilarious Tex Avery fashion). ![]() Along the way, he falls in love with his second cousin, Myra (Winona Ryder), eventually marrying the girl. ![]() The story takes place during the years 1956 through 1958, as Lewis rises to the top of the charts with such hits as "Crazy Arms," "A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," and the title tune. As played by Dennis Quaid, "the killer" is a very mixed-up individual: a saintly sinner, a world-wise naïf, a skilled performer with zero sense of discipline, a loving husband who uses his wife for a punching bag. Until its last ten minutes or so, this filmed biography of controversial recording star Jerry Lee Lewis plays like a live-action cartoon. ![]()
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