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...There's a six-disc CD set Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware (Shout! Factory, 2005), edited by Hal Willner and Marvin Worth, that wraps all the familiar bits and much previously unheard material in a handsome 80-page book. It's a must for any advanced Bruceophile. And two years ago, Comedy Central chose the 100 all-time greatest stand-up comedians. Lenny was #3, trailing only Richard Pryor and George Carlin, two social critics who (as Carlin notes) wouldn't have had the careers they did if Lenny hadn't made unfettered comedy possible...
...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. Two-thirds of the material has never before been released, ranging from Bruce's show-biz debut--on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in 1948, doing Jimmy Cagney...
...Radcliffe no longer exists as the place we knew it, it will mean more money goes to Harvard," says Judith P. Willner...
...from sexual harassment and misappropriation to sheer ineptitude -- have risen from virtually zero in the '60s and '70s to about a dozen a year. For the first time in its 123-year history, for example, the University of Kansas is trying to fire a tenured teacher, anthropology Professor Dorothy Willner, 62, who is accused of failing to carry out her "academic responsibilities" and of behaving abusively toward her colleagues and superiors. Says Willner, who denied all the charges in 120 hours of hearings last fall: "Even if the allegations were true, I do not believe they would be grounds...
Last Dec. 29, when she turned 40 and was feeling reasonably miserable about it, she sat down for a series of weekend listening sessions with Producer Hal Willner in Cambridge, Mass., at the "American dream house with a white picket fence," where she lived alone. "We listened to about 400 songs," Willner recalls. "She would wander around, listening all the time. Each weekend we would find ten songs we would want to record." They also found a common thread in all the material. "There are a lot of songs about being alienated, about being a stranger," Faithfull says...