The People Vs. Lenny Bruce
December, 2002
Lenny Bruce attracted labels. He was an angry hipster, a comic outsider, a moral spokesman, a cultural iconoclast, a comic prophet, a culture maker, a sicknik, a hip philosopher, a junky saint, a crusader against hypocrisy, a lynch victim, a martyr to free speech and a scholar of sleaze.Bruce has provided inspiration for movies, plays, documentaries and rock songs. One may wonder what could be left to say. But in The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon, Ronald Collins an...
