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The week ahead in LA theater, Feb. 25-March 4: 'Allegiance,' 'Jackie Unveiled' and more
Los Angeles Times I'm Lenny Bruce In this meticulously researched solo biography tracing the life and prosecution of the groundbreaking early 1960s comic provocateur, actor Ronnie Marmo and director Joe Mantegna offer subsequent generations not only a sense of who Bruce … |
If Newsweek Dies, So Does a Vivid Chapter in American Journalism – Daily Beast
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If Newsweek Dies, So Does a Vivid Chapter in American Journalism
Daily Beast We at Newsweek were more the Lenny Bruce-Mort Sahl skeptics.” Edward Kosner, in 1963 a young veteran of the then-liberal-leaning New York Post owned by Dorothy Schiff, came to Newsweek that year as a junior writer—two years after the Washington Post's … |
Reading Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ in the Wake of the Florida School Shooting – KQED
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Reading Ginsberg's 'Howl' in the Wake of the Florida School Shooting
KQED … “Howl” had chalked a win for free speech when a California Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the violent, sexually-charged poem in a highly-publicized obscenity trial. “It was a groundbreaking case that led the way for other kinds of … |
Call Me by Your New Name: Horse Trade Folds Into FRIGID – Chelsea Now
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Call Me by Your New Name: Horse Trade Folds Into FRIGID
Chelsea Now In “Lenny Bruce is Not Afraid,” the last two “normal” people in the world have an especially uncomfortable first date as they negotiate the streets of zombie-filled NYC. | Photo by Benjamin Davis. BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A brush with the law. A bounty on … |
5 American philosophers on the meaning of life – Big Think
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5 American philosophers on the meaning of life
Big Think Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Taylor, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Merton, Yogi Berra, Allen Ginsberg, Harry Wolfson, Thoreau, Casey Stengel, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Picasso, Moses, Einstein, Hugh Hefner, Socrates, Henry Ford, Lenny Bruce, Baba Ram Dass, Gandhi … |
Kosher Salt – City Journal
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Kosher Salt
City Journal Dauber affectionately embraces them all, with particular attention to such influences as Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), whose self-described approach was an amalgam of “the jargon of the hipster, the argot of the underworld, and Yiddish … |
Update: One Week Later and I Still Can’t Stop Thinking About … – TheStranger.com
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Update: One Week Later and I Still Can't Stop Thinking About …
TheStranger.com Did they kiss? Did they cuddle? Did they giggle? Were circles drawn lightly with lazy fingers in chest hair flecked with perspiration? |
Update: One Week Later and I Still Can’t Stop Thinking About Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor Fucking – TheStranger.com
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Update: One Week Later and I Still Can't Stop Thinking About Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor Fucking
TheStranger.com For any times. But it's also an evasion, because the grammar of the jokes is no different from the way he might have previously talked about opening a can of coffee. It had only been a year or two since saying words like that would have gotten you … |
VFX Supe Lesley Robson-Foster on Expanding The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s World – Studio Daily
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VFX Supe Lesley Robson-Foster on Expanding The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's World
Studio Daily The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the latest from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, is a period piece about a recently separated New York City housewife who bucks convention to become a stand-up comic. The Golden Globe-winning show stars Rachel … |
The week ahead in LA theater, Feb. 11-18: ‘4Play: Sex in a Series,’ Patti LuPone and more – Los Angeles Times
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The week ahead in LA theater, Feb. 11-18: '4Play: Sex in a Series,' Patti LuPone and more
Los Angeles Times Sun., next Sun., 2 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; ends March 11. $17.50, $34. (818) 761-8838. I Am Not a Comedian… I'm Lenny Bruce In this meticulously researched solo biography tracing the life and prosecution of the groundbreaking early 1960s comic … |