Archive for December 2002
Thanksgiving reading
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I spent Thanksgiving week in the San Francisco area with a stack of books. The Trials of Lenny Bruce I’ve already reviewed. The other three were Elisabeth Eaves’ memoir of her life as a stripper in
Here at the beginning of the 21st century, the concept of a comedian being hauled into court for something he said on stage seems absurd. And yet, that is exactly what happened to America’s most martyred comedian, Lenny Bruce. While there have been countless books and films about his life (including the wildly inaccurate |