Aworldapartfromthemusicians filling the label's roster, he was inhis mid-thirtiesat the timeofhisfirstsuccess, having spent more tahn adecadewritingpoetryandnovels.
Though he was only inhis mid-thirties, a graduate of the University of Michigan, it was rumored that he had been a paleontologist and had taught at Yale.
Seen here inhis mid-thirties, just four years removed from the acrimonious breakup of the most successful double act in the history of show business, Lewis is comedically fearless, so much a force of nature that he literally has Paar climbing the walls.