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Stephen Kessler: How many drugs does it take to kill the condemned? – Santa Cruz Sentinel

Stephen Kessler: How many drugs does it take to kill the condemned?
Santa Cruz Sentinel
The State of Arkansas's recent rush to execute eight death-row prisoners before the expiration date on one of the drugs in its killer cocktail (as of my deadline …

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Joe Mantegna to Direct Ronnie Marmo in I AM NOT A COMEDIAN…I’M LENNY BRUCE at Theatre 68 – Broadway World

Joe Mantegna to Direct Ronnie Marmo in I AM NOT A COMEDIAN…I'M LENNY BRUCE at Theatre 68
Broadway World
Joe Mantegna to Direct Ronnie Marmo in I AM NOT A COMEDIAN…I Ronnie Marmo and Theatre 68, with the blessings of Kitty Bruce (daughter of the late Lenny Bruce), along with The Lenny Bruce Foundation, are thrilled to announce Joe Mantegna has …

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At the de Young: Danny Lyon’s “Message to the Future” and “The Summer of Love” – The Stanford Daily


The Stanford Daily

At the de Young: Danny Lyon's “Message to the Future” and “The Summer of Love”
The Stanford Daily
Only in 1960s SF could you have a double bill with swamp-rocker Leon Russell and Miles Davis, or comedian Lenny Bruce and art-rock Mother of Invention Frank Zappa. The Fillmore posters want to look cool while flirting with complete unreadability.

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So what have they done to our very Yiddish so? – Jewish Chronicle

So what have they done to our very Yiddish so?
Jewish Chronicle
The decline of the “Jewish so”, with its intonation borrowed from “nu”, is happening more or less in sync with the rise of the automatic “so,” what Lenny Bruce would surely categorise as the “Goyish so”. Just like the transmission of actual words, like …

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Awkward Bill Cosby encounter revealed in ‘Hot Pants’ memoir – Page Six


Page Six

Awkward Bill Cosby encounter revealed in 'Hot Pants' memoir
Page Six
Susan Silver, one of the first female TV comedy writers, went to school with Jim Morrison, appeared in a movie with Elvis Presley, and was set up on a date with Lenny Bruce. But the story she told at Michael's to debut her memoir, “Hot Pants in …

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Review: Characters cross paths in Laird Hunt’s ‘The Evening Road’ – Boulder Daily Camera

Review: Characters cross paths in Laird Hunt's 'The Evening Road'
Boulder Daily Camera
I realize that I'm speaking from a position of privilege as an English-speaking white, straight male, but I've always subscribed to the Lenny Bruce school of thought: We can give words, ugly as they may be, too much power. The author's curious choice …

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The Cheech You Don’t Know – Pasadena Weekly


Pasadena Weekly

The Cheech You Don't Know
Pasadena Weekly
Lenny Bruce, when he was active in standup, said something like “pot will be legal because all the lawyers I know smoke it.” [Laughs.] And that's right. It's inevitable. It's like a lava flow. You can stand in front of it, I just wouldn't recommend it …

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Comedian Gab Bonesso throws her manic energy into debut album – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Comedian Gab Bonesso throws her manic energy into debut album
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
This was pre-YouTube and she checked out everything they had on Lenny Bruce at the Carnegie Library. “I was like, 'Now THAT's comedy, because he did so much more.' He woke up an audience. He wasn't afraid to have levels. He would cry on stage, …

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The Mother of all Film Bombs – Fairfield Daily Republic


Fairfield Daily Republic

The Mother of all Film Bombs
Fairfield Daily Republic
The finale: At the end of the movie they had a bunch of then-celebrities gather in what was an attempt to sorta recreate the famous Sgt. Pepper album cover that featured notables such as Mae West, Lenny Bruce, Sonny Liston, Bette Davis, Dylan Thomas …

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A generation easily offended – Terrace Standard

A generation easily offended
Terrace Standard
The great comics of our time, Carlin, Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Steve Martin and all the way back to Chaplin attacked these situations head on and allowed us to laugh, however uncomfortably, when we looked at ourselves in the mirror. Who can forget Carlin's …

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