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...Sahl recalled, "and... I'd say, ?Hey, man, but don't forget the resurrection.'" Lenny's trials spanned the last six years of his life; his resurrection took much less time. In the spring of 1967 the movie Lenny Bruce, a filmed record of a 1965 Basin Street West gig, showed those who had never seen him "live" the highs and the lows, the electricity and the longueurs, of a Bruce performance. That summer, Lenny's face was on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People...
...seem all the more appropriate. Her single Smile is already as inescapable as the heat, wafting from open windows and workmen's radios alike. [an error occurred while processing this directive] The Bush Hall performance is also 21-year-old Allen's first full-length gig, two streets away from where she grew up in west London. Her album, Alright, Still, could possibly debut at No. 1 this week, too. And like fellow Brits Arctic Monkeys, who similarly seemed to come from nowhere, Allen's popularity was forged online. A handful of free tracks posted on Allen's page...
...funnyman who emerged from burlesque to forge an acclaimed acting career spanning more than 30 films, including They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and The Poseidon Adventure, and stints on TV's Roseanne and ER; in Los Angeles. He was born Aaron Chwatt, but some patrons at an early gig renamed him for his red hair and the brass buttons on his uniform. Buttons became a sudden star in 1952 with his CBS variety show, on which he danced goofily to a trademark lyric, "Hoho-hehe-haha. Strange things are happening!" That became a national catchphrase, but his show...
...Borscht Belt clubs to forge a successful acting career, with roles in more than 30 films including Sayonara, Pete's Dragon and The Poseidon Adventure; in Los Angeles. Born Aaron Chwatt, he was nicknamed for his red hair and the brass buttons on his uniform at an early gig and became an overnight hit in 1952 with his own CBS variety show. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his 1956 portrayal of a U.S. airman in a doomed romance with a Japanese woman in Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando. "I'm a little guy," Buttons once said, "and that...
...founder of Slate Magazine and former Crimson vice president now has new plans—he’ll pass up the Harvard gig to become the American editor at large for the Guardian of London...