Reintroducing Lenny: Kitty Bruce honors father’s legacy on 50th Anniversary of his death
Brandeis University Hosts Historic Lenny Bruce Conference – Tablet Magazine
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Brandeis University Hosts Historic Lenny Bruce Conference
Tablet Magazine A comedian as transgressive as Lenny Bruce would may very well not be welcomed on college campuses, were he alive today. But his spirit, and his unique and uninhibited brand of comedy, was welcomed to Brandeis University last week for a two-day … |
Brandeis University Opens Lenny Bruce Archive23:50 – WBUR
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Brandeis University Opens Lenny Bruce Archive23:50
WBUR Comedian Lenny Bruce gives the "peace sign" at a New York airport after being detained and searched by U.S. officials in 1963. Around the time this photograph's taking, Bruce was facing narcotics and obscenity charges. (John Lindsay/AP). Lenny Bruce … |
Brandeis University Opens Lenny Bruce Archive21:30 – WBUR
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Brandeis University Opens Lenny Bruce Archive21:30
WBUR Comedian Lenny Bruce gives the "peace sign" at a New York airport after being detained and searched by U.S. officials in 1963. Around the time this photograph's taking, Bruce was facing narcotics and obscenity charges. (John Lindsay/AP). Lenny Bruce … |
A comic connection: Hugh Hefner and Lenny Bruce – Brandeis University
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A comic connection: Hugh Hefner and Lenny Bruce
Brandeis University "Hef was one of those friends who believed in Lenny, and who stood with him in good times, bad times, unpopular times and all times. Because alone among those rebellious artists, those talented men and women who were his contemporaries, Lenny Bruce … |
Lenny Bruce exhibit opens at Brandeis – The Boston Globe
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Lenny Bruce exhibit opens at Brandeis
The Boston Globe A new exhibit devoted to the life and work of the late, great Lenny Bruce opened at Brandeis University Thursday morning. with the comedian's daughter Kitty Bruce there to cut the ribbon. The show, part of the two-day academic conference “Comedy and … Lenny Bruce Archives Open at Brandeis University |
Lenny Bruce exhibit opens at Brandeis – The Boston Globe – The Boston Globe
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Lenny Bruce exhibit opens at Brandeis – The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe A new exhibit devoted to the life and work of the late, great Lenny Bruce opened at Brandeis University Thursday morning. with the comedian's daughter Kitty … Lenny Bruce Archives Open at Brandeis University – Waltham, MA … |
The legacy of Lenny Bruce on display at Brandeis – Wicked Local Waltham
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The legacy of Lenny Bruce on display at Brandeis
Wicked Local Waltham Before Stephen Colbert, or Jon Stewart, or George Carlin or countless other comedians and satirists of the last 50 years, there was Lenny Bruce. A pioneer of social criticism, Bruce used stand-up comedy in a way never seen before to expose hypocrisy … |
How to talk dirty and get an exhibit at Brandeis – The Boston Globe
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How to talk dirty and get an exhibit at Brandeis
The Boston Globe When Lenny Bruce published his autobiography, “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People,” in 1965, he was 39 years old. For several years he'd been recognized as the risqué one-man vanguard of a new type of comedy, in which he deliberately confronted … |
Kitty Bruce: How to share your father’s work and influence scholars – Brandeis University
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Kitty Bruce: How to share your father's work and influence scholars
Brandeis University Kitty Bruce was just 11 when her famous father – comedian, satirist and cultural critic Lenny Bruce – died of a drug overdose at age 40 in 1966. While many popular comedians who preceded him stuck with bland fare designed not to offend, Bruce was a … |