Review: Lenny Bruce’s Shifting Legacy, in ‘I’m Not a Comedian’ The New York Times
Ronnie Marmo wrote and stars in this bioplay about the groundbreaking comic, who died in 1966.
Lenny Bruce is Alive and Well – TheaterJones Performing Arts News
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Lenny Bruce is Alive and Well
TheaterJones Performing Arts News New York — On the 50th anniversary of Lenny Bruce's death in 2016, the New York Times published an essay by Jason Zinoman re-examining his legacy entitled “Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny?” Zinoman wrote “In recent years, however, … |
Why Adam Sandler Is Funny – Tablet Magazine
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Why Adam Sandler Is Funny
Tablet Magazine Lenny Bruce's torrent of insights, profound and profane? It comes from the same fountainhead of pain that drove him to leave home and join the Navy at 16, because WWII was more soothing than the chaotic life in a broken home with an absentee immigrant … |
LI native Lenny Bruce is having a moment again – Newsday
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LI native Lenny Bruce is having a moment again
Newsday It's a pretty groovy time for cats who dig Lenny Bruce. The acerbic comedian — a Long Island native and cultural icon who challenged limits to free speech in the 1960s, paving the way for generations of comics, from Richard Pryor and George Carlin to … |
Bill Hicks Is Finally Getting the Biopic Treatment – Texas Monthly
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Bill Hicks Is Finally Getting the Biopic Treatment
Texas Monthly Despite never achieving much in the way of fame or financial success during his lifetime, his death turned him into an icon, burnishing his legend as a Lenny Bruce-like truth-teller who used the power of comedy to challenge the status quo. (It also led … |
The Trial of Lenny Bruce – New York Times
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The Trial of Lenny Bruce
New York Times To the Editor: Re “It's About @#&%! Free Speech” (Arts pages, Oct. 17):. I was an expert witness at Lenny Bruce's 1962 San Francisco trial for obscenity. Three U.C. Berkeley professors appeared for the defense: Al Bendich and Don Geiger (speech … |
The Trial of Lenny Bruce – The New York Times
The Trial of Lenny Bruce The New York Times
A Berkeley professor who testified for the defense recalls the comedian’s 1962 trial in San Francisco.
The Best and Worst of This Week’s Trailers: ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Is Back! – New York Times
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The Best and Worst of This Week's Trailers: 'Mrs. Maisel' Is Back!
New York Times Rebels abound in this week's batch of new trailers, from Lenny Bruce (the taboo-busting mentor of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) to Robert the Bruce (the rabble-rousing subject of “Outlaw King”). |
Popular Broadway bookstore to close after rent hike – Crain’s New York Business
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Popular Broadway bookstore to close after rent hike
Crain’s New York Business I'm Lenny Bruce, a play he wrote and stars in about the comic Lenny Bruce, for a run at The Cutting Room, near Park Avenue South. He plans to begin looking for a new space once the play is out of previews in November. "I'm scared to death about finding … |