The French Must Be Desperate For Comedy

About the only ones whoever thought Jerry Lewis was funny, especially in his later years, were the French.  So, the French must be desperate for comedy as Jerry Lewis is going to make a movie again.
From Deadline.com: In his first film starring role since 1995′s Funny Bones, Jerry Lewis starts work tomorrow in the starring role of the indie feature Max Rose. Directed by Daniel Noah from his script, the film is a drama about a jazz pianist who has recently lost his wife of over five decades. A discovery made days before her death causes Max to believe his marriage was a lie. He embarks on an exploration of his own past that brings him face to face with a menagerie of characters from a bygone era. Noah is making his directing debut.
While he has done stage work, the 86-year-old Lewis hasn’t done much in the way of films in a long time. Before Funny Bones his last big starring role came in 1983′s Martin Scorsese-directed The King Of Comedy, opposite Robert De Niro
http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/jerry-lewis-back-onscreen-in-max-rose/
Hopefully, this will work out for him, especially since he was let go from the MD telethon.