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...twin searches for donations to the Democrats and people not registered to vote. I worked for a series of organizations dedicated to putting Democrats in power, starting with two soft-money organizations (the much-reviled 527s), of the kind George Soros’ billions and Bruce Springsteen’s concerts pay for, and ending with the Minnesota wing of the Kerry campaign...
...mark after yelling at the official that the only reason a certain foul wasn’t called was because the person committing it “goes to Harvard.” Following the match, Evans refused to shake the outstretched hand of assistant coach Bruce Murray and all of the other Crimson players and coaches, and quickly called all of his players off of the field...
Ever since Lenny Bruce's death from a drug overdose in 1966, his legend has overwhelmed his comedy. His "sick" material pushed the boundaries of language and subject matter, kept him shuttling in and out of jail--and provided a model for every antiestablishment comic who followed. Now Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware, a six-CD set due out this week from Shout! Factory, will give the most complete account yet of why. Producer Hal Willner, working with Bruce's daughter Kitty, listened to more than 200 hours of Bruce's private recordings and other long-unheard tapes...
Many of his classic bits--a cheesy Vegas comic playing the London Palladium, or Religions Inc., his satire of Christian commercialism--sound a bit moldy today. But his blazing intelligence and hair-trigger sense of outrage are riveting. In a 1963 appearance on Jonathan Winters' Breakfast Show, Bruce careens manically from Castro's Cuba to W.C. Fields' anti-Semitism to his own fantasy plot for entrapping the judge trying his obscenity case in San Francisco. Yet this bitter, late-stage Bruce is not all that far from the sensitive comic who, in a 1959 radio interview with Studs Terkel, blames...
...don’t think we’ve skipped a beat with Bruce coming in,” Craig said. “Not only does he add a tremendous collegiate and professional background, he understands how to interact with the players and ensure his tactical and technical points make sense...