![]() ![]() Music Review: Jerry Lee Lewis remains a musical firebrand at 83 during dynamic performance in Cerritos She described the memoir as her story “of how to overcome life’s worst tragedies and your own dumbass decisions.” Williams again addressed their scandalous relationship in her 2016 memoir, “The Spark That Survived.” While promoting the book, she took to Instagram to air some of the sordid details. ![]() “Jerry Lee Lewis may be a lot of things, but he’s not a simple cartoon.” “‘Great Balls of Fire’ is the toon of rock movies, with Jerry Lee Lewis reduced on screen to Roger Rabbit,” Times music critic Robert Hilburn wrote at the time. Instead director Jim McBride, who co-wrote the script with Jack Baran, “ends up simply satirizing the argyle innocence and daffy exuberance of the ’50s,” according to The Times’ review. But it didn’t delve deep enough into exploring Lewis’ indomitable character. The 1989 biopic “Great Balls of Fire,” which starred Dennis Quaid as Lewis and a 17-year-old Winona Ryder as Myra, was based on Williams’ first book of the same name. Lewis upended pop music with ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On’ and ‘Great Balls of Fire,’ but his personal life was a chronicle of scandal and controversy. Music Jerry Lee Lewis, original wild man of rock ’n’ roll, dies at 87 ![]()
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