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In the season finale of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Midge (sort of) gets it all
AV Club He's shocked and deeply embarrassed, and we're not sure what he'll do next, other than blow his job prospects by being Joel again. Meanwhile, Susie seeks out Lenny Bruce for a favor in order to help she and Midge out. Instead of a Chanukah celebration … The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 1 Finale Recap – Vulture |
Because Of His Ego, These 3 Movies Reveal A Lot About Famed Film Director Bob Fosse – WBUR
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Because Of His Ego, These 3 Movies Reveal A Lot About Famed Film Director Bob Fosse
WBUR He just isn't funny, which is a pretty big problem for a movie about Lenny Bruce. Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce. (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive). But Fosse doesn't seem particularly interested in comedy, nor in the legal conundrums that drove the comic … |
JOHN WILCOCK: Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL and THE DEATH OF LENNY BRUCE – Boing Boing
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JOHN WILCOCK: Allen Ginsberg's HOWL and THE DEATH OF LENNY BRUCE
Boing Boing Swatting is the practice of tricking police SWAT teams into storming your victim's home by phoning in fake hostage situations; it's especially prominent among cybercriminals, gamers and was a favored tactic of Gamergater trolls. READ THE REST · When … |
Everybody Bombs: On the (Occasional) Brilliance of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Paste Magazine
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Everybody Bombs: On the (Occasional) Brilliance of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Paste Magazine I meant it when I compared Midge's performances to musical numbers, in structure if not in tone—in the season's best sequence, she assumes emcee duties from Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) and drops a half-stoned, wholly captivating comic explosion on an … 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Is Amy Sherman-Palladino's Best Show Yet 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Finale Recap: A Triumphant Yet Sad Ending |
Everybody Bombs: On the (Occasional) Brilliance of The Marvelous … – Paste Magazine
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Everybody Bombs: On the (Occasional) Brilliance of The Marvelous …
Paste Magazine In the fourth episode of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, comedy scene veteran Susie Meyerson (Alex Borstein) invites aspiring stand-up Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan, suitably marvelous) on a tour of New York's clubs: an oddball ventriloquist, at a … 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Is Amy Sherman-Palladino's Best Show … 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Finale Recap: A Triumphant Yet Sad Ending |
Redefining Drag In The Age Of Trump – Forbes
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Redefining Drag In The Age Of Trump
Forbes "Instead they find Larry Kramer meets Lenny Bruce meets Priscilla. Meets Pitch Perfect." The name is a pun on the Kinsey scale, shorthand for measuring sexual orientation, with six being the most gay. Schatz formed the Sicks in 1994, when he was … |
Who Is Midge Maisel Based On? Amazon’s ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Draws Inspiration From Comedy Elite – Bustle
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Who Is Midge Maisel Based On? Amazon's 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Draws Inspiration From Comedy Elite
Bustle The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel features one real comedian — Lenny Bruce, the infamous and unrestrained comic who influenced basically all of your favorite funny people. However, most of the characters on the Amazon series are fictional, but seem to have … Gilmore Girls duo's Marvelous new creation |
‘Mrs. Maisel’ Is Marvelous – Splitsider
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'Mrs. Maisel' Is Marvelous
Splitsider And what could be more Jewish than casting Lenny Bruce (played by Luke Kirby, outpacing Dustin Hoffman's Lenny by miles) in the role of Midge's fairy godmother, appearing occasionally to cheer her on and smoke her up? In Midge Lenny Bruce sees a … Alex Borstein's 'unrelenting' 'Mrs. Maisel' character bends the rules for women in the '50s |
Midge makes up her mind about who wears the pants now in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – AV Club
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Midge makes up her mind about who wears the pants now in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
AV Club One of Midge's charms is that she is completely at ease in new situations: When Susie excitedly points out to Midge that the famous and talented Lenny Bruce is in the same diner as the two of them, Midge says, “Oh, you mean Lenny?” as if it's … The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: Crime Doesn't Pay |
Midge makes up her mind about who wears the pants now in The … – AV Club
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Midge makes up her mind about who wears the pants now in The …
AV Club Episode 3 starts with a shot of young blonde college Midge at a party where she and Joel flirt while she is supposed to be on a date with the handsome blonde jock, Palmer Witherspoon. Joel makes a couple of WASP jokes and Midge giggles: 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Recap: Season 1, Episode 3 – Vulture |