Reversals Galore
May, 2012
WHEN IT COMES TO EXPLETIVES, WE CANT MAKE UP OUR MINDSNine years ago, Robin Williams, Penn and Teller, Margaret Cho, Tom and Dick Smothers, First Amendment scholars, lawyers and Lenny Bruce's daughter Kitty signed a petition addressed to New York governor George Pataki. Referring to Bruce's 1964 obscenity conviction over his performance at the Cafe au Go Go in Greenwich Village, it stated, "A pardon nowis too late to save Lenny Bruce. But a posthumous pardon would set the record straight a...
