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L Lenny (1974)
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Lenny (1974)

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Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis:

The career of Lenny Bruce, docu-style, from his beginnings as a Jewish comic in the Catskills, to his controversial counter-culture success as a profane scourge of the establishment.

Review:

The film itself represented another chipping away at on-screen standards of propriety as far as language was concerned, but occupies its proper place now as another great Hoffman role and a diversification in Fosse's output. If the obscenity trials seem of merely historic interest now, they and the politics were certainly just as relevant in 1974 as ten years previously; but it was his drug abuse and death that seem more apt than ever for the 70s and beyond, director included.

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Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis:

The career of Lenny Bruce, docu-style, from his beginnings as a Jewish comic in the Catskills, to his controversial counter-culture success as a profane scourge of the establishment.

Review:

The film itself represented another chipping away at on-screen standards of propriety as far as language was concerned, but occupies its proper place now as another great Hoffman role and a diversification in Fosse's output. If the obscenity trials seem of merely historic interest now, they and the politics were certainly just as relevant in 1974 as ten years previously; but it was his drug abuse and death that seem more apt than ever for the 70s and beyond, director included.


Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis:

The career of Lenny Bruce, docu-style, from his beginnings as a Jewish comic in the Catskills, to his controversial counter-culture success as a profane scourge of the establishment.

Review:

The film itself represented another chipping away at on-screen standards of propriety as far as language was concerned, but occupies its proper place now as another great Hoffman role and a diversification in Fosse's output. If the obscenity trials seem of merely historic interest now, they and the politics were certainly just as relevant in 1974 as ten years previously; but it was his drug abuse and death that seem more apt than ever for the 70s and beyond, director included.

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