A noisy protest Wednesday night cut short a Chicago appearance by entertainment legend Jerry Lewis.
Lewis was at the Chicago Library to promote his new book, "Dean and Me - A Love Story."
The auditorium was packed when disability activists in wheelchairs began heckling Lewis.
Lewis has held telethons to fund research to find cures for people with muscular dystrophy. But members of a group called Jerry's Orphans accused him of portraying the disabled as people to be pitied.
Lewis yelled at them to get out and stormed off the stage.
And if the money Lewis raises finds a cure for muscular dystrophy? Then what?
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