Comedy legend, Jerry Lewis, has been hospitalised after suffering a
heart attack on Sunday (11th June).
Lewis was on a flight from New York to San Diego when he became ill and was
then rushed to hospital as soon as the plane landed.
A Las Vegas publicist announced that the coronary had been "minor" and that
he also had a "touch of pneumonia" but doctors expect him to make a full
recovery.
This comes in a long line of ailments that the comic has endured over the
last twenty years including meningitis, pulmonary fibrosis and prostate
cancer.
As a result, Lewis has had to cancel an upcoming Vegas show and it is, as
yet, unclear whether he will go ahead with his plans to direct a Broadway
musical version of his 1963 hit film, The Nutty Professor.
This is just one film in an illustrious career that dates back to 1948 and
saw a long-term collaboration with Dean Martin. Later he worked with Robert De
Niro and Martin Scorcese in The King of Comedy and, more recently, with
Oliver Platt, Lee Evans and Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies in Funny
Bones.
