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Before Eric Cartman, there was Lenny Bruce, and given the numerous calls today for the South Park brat and his ilk to clean up their act, the TV premiere of this Oscar-nominated documentary couldn't be better timed. Narrated by Robert De Niro, it follows the artistic evolution and downfall through specious obscenity prosecutions of the "dirty" comic. Bruce died of a 1966 drug overdose, but he comes to smoldering, indomitable hipster life here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Kubrick began to woo Cruise as early as 1995, after his longtime friend Sydney Pollack, who produced Cruise's film The Firm, reassured him that the young star was no brat. At first Cruise thought Pollack (who ended up appearing in the film too) was kidding when he said Kubrick wanted the star's fax number. But soon, Cruise recalls, they began "faxing each other back and forth, never really discussing the movie, just talking about airplanes and cameras." A year later, Kubrick faxed Kidman with an offer to be in the film with her husband. "I didn't need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three Of a Kind | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

DIED. EDDIE STANKY, 83, pugnacious, pennant-winning second baseman; in Fairhope, Ala. Nicknamed "the Brat," Stanky battled his way through 11 seasons for National League teams, including the champion Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves and New York Giants. "He can't run, he can't hit and he can't throw," said Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey. "But if there's a way to beat the other team, he'll find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 21, 1999 | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...caving in to this pressure, Massachusetts has rewarded an opportunistic brat who has played states against each other. The people of Connecticut are better off without Kraft and his Patriots...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: In Defense of Connecticut | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...also remembered one other thing about Ed from their teenage days, "Even though I was an Air Force brat, moving around all of the TIME, Edward would find me, whether or not I wanted to be found," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publish and Flourish | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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