Wow. I am 30 or so years old, and all the information I had stored in my brain about Lenny Bruce was mostly gleaned from Kid Rock and REM songs. I had no idea about the struggle Lenny Bruce went through. For the most part I knew he was a junky and a comedian. I guess these days it is easy to take free speech for granted (more or less). The clips of his act that were included in this piece seem so tame compared to what I hear on my local rock station in the morning, not to mention what anyone can hear when watching the television at any time of the day. I feel like I have learned something, and that I have a lot to think about (and be thankful for) now as well. The sound in this piece was excellent and the music at the end moving, and was the perfect backdrop to the sadness I felt. It has a historical feel too it and I greatly enjoyed it.
EDIT: I could not stop thinking about Lenny Bruce all day and spent most of my working hours trying to learn more about him over the internet and checking to see what my local library had available on him.
Review of Lenny Bruce Gets Busted
Kari Chapin
Posted on January 20, 2005 at 05:01 AM
Wow. I am 30 or so years old, and all the information I had stored in my brain about Lenny Bruce was mostly gleaned from Kid Rock and REM songs. I had no idea about the struggle Lenny Bruce went through. For the most part I knew he was a junky and a comedian. I guess these days it is easy to take free speech for granted (more or less). The clips of his act that were included in this piece seem so tame compared to what I hear on my local rock station in the morning, not to mention what anyone can hear when watching the television at any time of the day. I feel like I have learned something, and that I have a lot to think about (and be thankful for) now as well. The sound in this piece was excellent and the music at the end moving, and was the perfect backdrop to the sadness I felt. It has a historical feel too it and I greatly enjoyed it.
EDIT: I could not stop thinking about Lenny Bruce all day and spent most of my working hours trying to learn more about him over the internet and checking to see what my local library had available on him.