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Randazza: Scottish comedian's Nazi salute dog video was awful. But it wasn't a crime
GANT News Sheriff Derek O'Carroll said in court: “The accused knew that the material was offensive and knew why it was offensive. He would have known it was grossly offensive to many Jewish people.” Certainly, it is offensive to many people (“It is grossly … Man guilty of hate crime for filming pug's 'Nazi salutes' |
Melba Moore delivers a heartrending tribute to Billie Holiday with WBTT – YourObserver.com
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Melba Moore delivers a heartrending tribute to Billie Holiday with WBTT
YourObserver.com Robertson wrote this play before VH-1's “Behind the Music,” but the template was already familiar: Despite their creative promise, Lenny Bruce or Hendrix or Janis or Elvis or [Artist Name Here] lived tragically short lives, cut down in their prime by … |
Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) – New York Times
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Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy)
New York Times We're at a moment when I suspect audiences are not as interested in hearing from angry male comics, and yet the work of Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks laid the groundwork that allows us to see Ms. Gadsby's roaring polemic wrapped in jokes as firmly part of … |
Corporate, Detroiters, and the Battle Between Comedy’s Light and Dark Sides – Vulture
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Corporate, Detroiters, and the Battle Between Comedy's Light and Dark Sides
Vulture The dark side includes political comedy, satire, political-correctness pushers, sarcasm, violence, most insults. The light is bathroom humor, funny dancing, stupidity, impressions, cuteness, breaking, most physical comedy. The patron saints of the dark … |
Abingdon to Host Free Reading of Michael Weller’s Buyer Beware – Playbill.com
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Abingdon to Host Free Reading of Michael Weller's Buyer Beware
Playbill.com An earlier Brandeis University production of the play was canceled after students protested its contents. Lenny Bruce Library of Congress. Abingdon Theatre Company is presenting a free reading of Michael Weller's play Buyer Beware March 26 at 7 PM at … |
Abingdon Theatre Co. Presents Reading Of New Play Inspired The Legacy Of Lenny Bruce – Broadway World
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Abingdon Theatre Co. Presents Reading Of New Play Inspired The Legacy Of Lenny Bruce
Broadway World Abingdon Theatre Company (Tony Speciale, Artistic Director; Denise Dickens, Producing Director) continues its 2017-2018 Ghostlight Reading Series this month with a provocative new work inspired by the legacy of legendary comic Lenny Bruce: Buyer Beware … |
David E. Kauffman – LancasterOnline
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David E. Kauffman
LancasterOnline He also loved to laugh-an unmistakable laugh-and enjoyed the comedy of personalities including Lenny Bruce, Sam Kinison, George Carlin and many others. Mr. Kauffman worked as a Title Examiner for thirty years, at one point being part owner of Lancaster … |
Leonard Bernstein show at the Jewish museum: ‘West Side’ story and ‘Radical Chic’ too – Philly.com
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Leonard Bernstein show at the Jewish museum: 'West Side' story and 'Radical Chic' too
Philly.com Musical Lenny is very much political Lenny and vice versa. Largely told through documents and artifacts, the exhibition contains a considerable amount of video of Lenny – conducting, talking, traveling about Israel and Europe. There are sound stations … |
Know Your Street Art: Bound Together – SF Weekly
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Know Your Street Art: Bound Together
SF Weekly Eggking, who's a fan of Carlin — along with others who had an anarchistic bent, including Lenny Bruce, John Lennon, Nina Simone, and Tupac Shakur — has volunteered at Bound Together since last summer. One of the store's many other volunteers helped … |
‘The Godfather’ at 49: The vendettas, tirades and real Mob threats behind the classic novel, movie – OregonLive.com
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'The Godfather' at 49: The vendettas, tirades and real Mob threats behind the classic novel, movie
OregonLive.com [My] editors didn't like the idea behind my next novel. It sounded like another loser. One editor wistfully remarked that if 'Fortunate Pilgrim' [his 1965 novel that had a mobster subplot] had only had a little more of that Mafia stuff in it maybe the … |