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New play 'Last Out' encourages veterans to ease the pain of war by telling their stories
Tampa Bay Times For Lenny Bruce, who plays two characters, it cost him his marriage. Bachman, 29, was in the Army from 2007 to 2015. When he deployed to Afghanistan in 2010, his daughter was a year old. She only knew him through video chats and a doll with a picture … |
I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce Follows One Man’s Fight for the First Amendment – TheaterMania.com
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I'm Not a Comedian…I'm Lenny Bruce Follows One Man's Fight for the First Amendment
TheaterMania.com Ronnie Marmo is giving an unabashedly ballsy performance at the Cutting Room. He literally begins his new solo show, I'm Not a Comedian…I'm Lenny Bruce, bare naked on the commode. This is how Bruce actually died in 1966, and the porcelain … |
Review: Lenny Bruce’s Shifting Legacy, in ‘I’m Not a Comedian’ – New York Times
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Review: Lenny Bruce's Shifting Legacy, in 'I'm Not a Comedian'
New York Times Ronnie Marmo's new solo show opens cold with its punch line. And a tragic one it is: Mr. Marmo is sitting on a toilet, naked and motionless. It is an arresting still life of Lenny Bruce's death, by morphine overdose, in 1966. What follows is … |
Today in History: November 4, 2018 – cleveland.com
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Today in History: November 4, 2018
cleveland.com In 1964, comedian Lenny Bruce was convicted by a three-judge panel in New York of obscenity charges stemming from his performances at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village. (Bruce received a posthumous pardon in 2003 from New York Gov. George … |
Review: Lenny Bruce’s Shifting Legacy, in ‘I’m Not a Comedian’ – The New York Times
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 … |