<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I've no doubt about that. His biographer Shawn Levy shows what an asshole and prick Lewis was throughout his life and career (including several nasty personal encounters with Levy). I was talking about his comedy, his craft. Lots of comics or artists are utterly depraved individuals. Is that how you judge their work, whether or not they kick their cat or yell at their father?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dennis<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>IMHO his work sucks too. He portrayed himself as a "halfwit" often mimicking someone who had spasticity and slurred his words. All these are traits that some disabled people have. We don't think that is very funny. He used impairment in ways to make people laugh at him for these characteristics. He has no consciousness of the disability movement and we (speaking for lots of disabled people I know who feel the same way) hate the asshole himself and his comedy routines.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Marta</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></BODY></HTML>