The character sang current songs in a drawn-out, schmaltzy manner. Murray was part of the Second City improvisational theater troupe at the time.ĭamon's act was the inspiration for Nick the Lounge Singer, one of Murray's most popular recurring characters during his late 1970s three-year "Saturday Night Live" tenure. It was in the early 1970s that Murray caught Damon's lounge-lizard act at a now-defunct Chicago club, Damon and many others said. "In those days, I was the lounge lizard that was becoming Jimmy Damon." "I was still learning how to be an entertainer, how to connect with an audience, how to put things together," he told the newspaper in 1998.
The movie within a movie has a character who is good looking and well dressed who is romantically involved with a wealthy young woman.This tendency could make him slightly overbearing in the 1970s, early in his Chicago career, Damon acknowledged to the Tribune.
In Buster Keaton's 1924 film Sherlock Jr., Keaton plays a projectionist at a movie theater where the movie showing is Hearts & Pearls or The Lounge Lizard's Lost Love. In the 1919 Charlie Chaplin film Sunnyside the term appears as a title card, describing a group of men reading newspapers in a hotel lobby. In Europe, he subsequently evolved into what is now known as the gigolo." A 1931 book described them as men " the habit of lounging in different dance resorts from tea time on, on a chance of picking up a few dollars or they might be habitués of the place or of an outer room, described as a 'lounge', for the purpose of picking up girls and women. The term is reported to have arisen around 1915 in New York. For other uses, see Lounge lizard (disambiguation).Ī lounge lizard is a man who frequents social establishments with the intention of seducing a woman with his flattery and deceptive charm.
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