One of the cinema's holy grail movies, unlike something such as the excised ending of "The Magnificent Ambersons," everyone knows where Jerry Lewis' "The Day The Clown Cried" is located. He's got the only copy of it, sitting in a vault somewhere, where he's determined to ensure that no one ever gets a chance to view the whole thing. But as always, there's hope, and last week a bounty of footage made its way online in the form of seven-minutes of material from part of a Dutch TV special about the making of about the making of the Holocaust movie. It was the biggest peek anyone has ever gotten of the movie to date, and Lewis has largely been reluctant to talk about it in interviews. But more vintage Lewis has surfaced, this time, with the comedy legend talking extensively about the movie. Chris Nashawaty has the goods over at EW, and as he explains, he had once tried to ask Lewis years ago about 'Clown' but was promptly shut down. And then, back in 2009 when he got another...
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