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Jonathan Lewis

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Biography:

Jonathan Lewis came into the world during Chapter 37 of War and Peace, which his mother had been reading at the time she went into labor. (She never did finish the book). A highly allergic kid, he claimed asthmatic distress and successfully managed to miss an entire year of school, staying at home to watch musicals on television instead. Doris Day proved such an inspiration that Jonathan became an actor, first appearing as a milk bottle in a second grade stage play entitled “Healthy Foods.” His dubious 25-year acting career included such ignominious highlights as surviving a 400-lb. steel bar falling on his head during a production of "The Music Man" and playing Barney the Beaver in a chain saw commercial. A character actor cursed with the body, face and voice of a song-and-dance man, he finally gave up “acting at all costs” for the rewarding pursuits of an impoverished writer. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association since 1997, he now walks in the shadow of Roger Ebert, hoping that some of the man’s fame and fortune will rub off on him.

Publications:
Favorites:

Cabaret Double Indemnity Singing in the Rain Woman of the Dunes Citizen Kane The Four Feathers Raging Bull The Miracle of Morgan Creek The Fallen Idol Alexander Nevsky

Location:

Rogers Park, northside of Chicago

Official Website:

http://www.gaychicagomag.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Emperor's New Clothes (2001) 73% 3.5/4 EDIT “Both a historical rumination and a fanciful romantic comedy.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jul 1, 2002 Full Review The Patriot (2000) 61% EDIT “Exciting and entertaining as any good summer blockbuster should be.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Nurse Betty (2000) 83% EDIT “Nurse Betty has the best ensemble cast and the most clever script so far this year.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Center Stage (2000) 42% EDIT “The cast is all very young and pretty, but they play types rather than anything approaching the semblance of a real human being.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Girlfight (2000) 87% EDIT “[Rodriguez] can be so real at times that it is almost painful to watch her.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review High Fidelity (2000) 91% EDIT “A smart, adult comedy about the trials and tribulations of failed relationships.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Bait (2000) 26% EDIT “The hackneyed script is filled with formulaic contrivances that continually strain credibility.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Tumbleweeds (1999) 82% EDIT “Giving two of the year's best performances, (McTeer and Brown) have astonishing authenticity and naturalness, which never seems like acting.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Cotton Mary (1999) 36% EDIT “As fascinating as the central character is, the film has all the excitement of watching the glaze harden on a scone.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Man on the Moon (1999) 64% EDIT “Has all the emotional depth of a TV Movie of the Week.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Topsy-Turvy (1999) 90% EDIT “Rarely has a film gotten so deeply inside the internal workings of the business of theatre and the act of creation.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review The Perfect Storm (2000) 47% EDIT “Little concern for plot or character.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Titan A.E. (2000) 51% EDIT “The film is certainly as exciting as any live-action sci-fi flick.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Space Cowboys (2000) 78% EDIT “Space Cowboys is a weirdly entertaining movie, mixing as it does Cold War intrigue, action flick and geezer buddy comedy.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000) 88% EDIT “Even today's CGI effects wizards would be envious of this over-the-top technical achievement.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Battlefield Earth (2000) 3% EDIT “This third-rate B-movie is predictable and silly in the extreme.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Supernova (2000) 11% EDIT “The script probably got sucked into a black hole.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Bamboozled (2000) 53% EDIT “Satire requires a subtle touch, and Lee is so defiant and reactionary that he fairly bludgeons the material to death.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) 85% EDIT “Great performances, pretty locales, and smart plot twists makes this exciting character study almost as cunning as the titled character himself.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Remember the Titans (2000) 72% EDIT “The movie manages to be moving and entertaining, and audiences will surely love it, but this is about as slick, predictable and manipulative as a movie can get.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Disney's The Kid (2000) 49% EDIT “You somehow never object to such shameless manipulation.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Titus (1999) 69% EDIT “Stylistic flourishes amount to little more than an anachronistic jumble, with no rhyme or reason to their application.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Meet the Parents (2000) 85% EDIT “The film is uproarious without ever becoming nasty or mean-spirited.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Dr. T & the Women (2000) 58% EDIT “Each actress in this nearly all-female cast brings something unique to her role.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Scary Movie (2000) 51% EDIT “This is the gross-out comedy of the year.” – Gay Chicago Magazine Jan 1, 2000 Full Review
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