Instruction book for...being a person: or (just feeling better) - jerry lewis

A Book Is Born It was 1962.

I was at Paramount filming The Nutty Professor, a labor of love that transcended everything else I had ever done.

One day I felt instinctively that there were minor rumblings among my crew.

Backbiting and envy are two of the most destructive forces I know of.

So I went home that night, sat down and wrote a tome -- a small one, but a tome, on the benefits of being a person.

I wrote the words in a matter of two hours and had my sketch artist interpret what I wrote in sketches.

Within one week I had the little book printed and bound and made up only 200 copies (my crew was a total of 185).

I distributed the book to every member of that crew and it made a difference.

and I created a small, worthwhile message to all who read it.

Jerry Lewis.