Jerry Lewis Dead at 91

The French are generally right about wine, cheese and pastry. They have also always been right about Jerry Lewis, who died Sunday at age 91, his publicist confirmed to the Associated Press

Lewis is probably best known to people under 70 as a film actor: He was the star, as well as the writer-director, of pictures like The Nutty Professor (1963), a potty work of genius in which he played the dual roles of a nerdy scientist and his alter-ego, Buddy Love, a suave, rude Ratpack-style lothario.