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Had enough of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-baiting horsey love-in? Well another equine-based drama arrives on our screens this Saturday and with a second series already in the (nose)bag, Luck looks like it could be worth a look. Dustin Hoffman stars as Chest
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Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton. Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful. Some thought at first that it must have been a trick of the light, something to do with the weather, an a
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Well, I was just trying to make a point and that is that it's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness
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During a recent episode of the reality show "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?" They fired up a bowl as they sat in a car parked on a quiet cul de sac in a nice neighborhood o
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No film fan can forget the scene in Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979) in which two pseudo-intellectual New Yorkers, played by Michael Murphy and Diane Keaton, enumerate the members of their “Academy of the Overrated”: Norman Mailer, Scott Fitzgerald, Lenny
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If you've read anything over at my own blog, you know that I am a huge fan of Jean Shepherd. I was going to say "borderline obsessed with," but I crossed that borderline a long time ago. Shepherd is best known these days as the man behind A Christmas Sto
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Bennett was a free-speech martyr who served a year in prison even though he wasn't guilty of anything ... We all know about other First Amendment rebels like Lenny Bruce and Jim Morrison but most people haven't heard of Bennett.
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Celebrity interviews: Scots singing legend Annie Ross talks Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday & Judy Garland ahead of appearance at Glasgow Film Festival
The Sunday Mail
SHE was the ginger-haired child star Hollywood groomed for stardom as Scotland’s Shirley Temple. Now Annie Ross, who went on to become the toast of the New York, Paris and London jazz scenes, has had a movie made about her incredible life. Annie, now 81,
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With a show like no one before and no one since, Penn & Teller bring their blend of comedy and magic to the King Center on Thursday. After sold-out shows on Broadway, world tours, a highly successful Las Vegas headlining run, countless television experie
About Lenny Bruce
Wikipedia
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial led to the first posthumous pardon in New York history. Full Article
