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Bookmark or Share- 16 Canny Facts About The Jerk - Mental FlossIn the rags-to-riches-back-to-rags-then-back-to-riches story of The Jerk, Steve Martin plays Navin R. Johnson, a man who one day discovers that he is both adopted and white. Johnson sets out to...
- The Jerk - WikipediaNavin Johnson, a homeless person sleeping in a stairwell in Los Angeles, addresses the camera directly to tell his life story. The white adopted son of black sharecroppers in Mississippi, Navin grows to adulthood naïvely unaware of these circumstances.
- 'The Jerk': 11 Quotes From The Steve Martin Classic - UPROXXOne of the most well-known lines from this movie is the “phone book” line. Navin Johnson is somebody, and damn it, he’s going to be somebody. He’s moving up in the world and not looking back....
- The Jerk (1979) - IMDbMartin definitely did something special, infusing his stand-up routine into a story of one man's rise to wealth and subsequent loss of everything. His crazy persona takes center stage right from the start as we meet Navin Johnson, not a bum on the street, but a jerk who has lost it all.
- The Jerk - WikiquoteNavin R. Johnson: I had the craziest fantasy that I could rise up and float right down the end of this coronet, right through here, through these valves, right along this tube, to right up against your lips and give you a kiss.
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