with Lenny Bruce being one of them (the others being Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev and Lester Bangs). Zappa asked Bruce to sign hisdraft card, but the suspicious Bruce refused.[44]. Lenny passed away aged 40 In 1964, Lenny was arrested for an appearance at Caf Au Go Go in NYC, had a six-month trial and was eventually sentenced to four months in a workhouse, which was then. Popular culture has perpetuated a myth that Lenny was a mischievous sailor, prone to garish shenanigans, entertaining his shipmates in drag and feigning homosexuality to get out of the service. Lenny's parents were divorced when he was a child. Lenny Bruce brought more First Amendment protection to comedy Born in Mineola, New York, in 1925 as Leonard Alfred Schneider, Lenny Bruce had a troubled early life. What people saw was a person who had been fucked with for a very long time. Lenny worshipped the gods of Spontaneity, Candor andFree Association. Eight months before he fell dead, from a heroin overdose, on the bathroom floor of his Hollywood Hills home The District Court in San Francisco declared him a pauper. Click here for more information on how to contribute to The Lenny Bruce Memorial Foundation. One major aspect of Lenny Bruce's life that The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has only lightly touched upon, at least in the first three seasons, is his romantic and family . What the Psychic Saw (Sterlinghouse Publisher, 2005) Kofsky, Frank. She served jail time for marijuana possession. It isnt far from the truth but when Lenny wrote his autobiography, post-divorce, he reflected warmly on their courtship and early marriage: Honey and I were always laughing, kidding, teasing, and loving each other. The amazing thing about churches and synagogues is that they never complain about a bad location. Drama As a comic, Lenny Bruce was always one to keep things real and now, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will too. The performance contained in this album is that of a child of the jazz age. His idealistic humor is cherished even to this day. Five days later, at the Jazz Workshop in San . The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public. Original cast-member, actor/director Larry Hankin recalls Lennys visits to The Committees theater in North Beach. ", Bruce is survived by his daughter, Kitty Bruce (born Brandy Kathleen Bruce), who lives in Pennsylvania. Last years[edit] Question book-new.svg This section does not cite any references or sources. 's 1987 song "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" includes references to a quartet of famous people all sharing the initials L.B. He saw black blood spilled, white blood, Latin blood spilled. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. On the evening of August 3, 1966 Lenny was home typing in his office when he paused mid-way through some legalese and got up to go to the kitchen. Churches and synagogues were probably hard to come by. Solomon later saw his conviction overturned; Bruce, who died before the decision, never had his conviction stricken. A three-judge panel presided over his widely publicized six-month trial, prosecuted by Manhattan Assistant D.A. The conviction was announced despite positive testimony and petitions of support from among other artists, writers and educators Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Jules Feiffer, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, William Styron, and James Baldwin, and Manhattan journalist and television personality Dorothy Kilgallen and sociologist Herbert Gans. When I first read How to Talk Dirty and Influence People it really made me laugh, Kitty said. He was arrested along with the club owners, Howard and Elly Solomon, who were arrested for allowing an obscene performance to take place. The conviction was announced despite positive testimony and petitions of support from among other artists, writers and educators Woody Allen,Bob Dylan,Jules Feiffer,Allen Ginsberg,Norman Mailer,William Styron, andJames Baldwin, and Manhattan journalist and television personalityDorothy KilgallenandsociologistHerbert Gans. , (). Lennys first ten years were spent living with different relatives. Cemetery officials had tried to block the ceremony after advertisements for the event encouraged attendees to bring box lunches and noisemakers. Photo of Lenny Bruce American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist Lenny Bruce arrives at Heathrow Airport, London, UK, 13th April 1963. I just remember trying to keep up with his references. Kitty described childhood as a lonely time.. -FBI ( ). [46], On August 3, 1966, a bearded Lenny Bruce was found dead in the bathroom of hisHollywood Hillshome at 8825 W. Hollywood Blvd. He paved the way for future outspoken counterculture-era comedians, and his trial for obscenity, in which after being forced into bankruptcy he was eventually pardoned, is seen as a landmark trial for freedom of speech in the US. Thanks to his friend Buddy Hackett, Lenny found work punching up scripts at 20th Century Fox. Bruce was arrested again in 1961, inPhiladelphia, fordrug possessionand again in Los Angeles, California, two years later. , "". He is often seen wearing a black suit jacket over a white buttoned shirt with black tie and black shoes. [30], Bruce dated actressFaye Dunawayfor a time in the 1960s. In August 1966, at the age of 40, Lenny Bruce was found dead in his Hollywood home of a suspected morphine overdose. Satirist, Stand-up Comedian, Social Critic, Comedien. His 1961 San Francisco performances, which led to legal complications, were produced and released by Bruce himself. He was sidelined from mainstream culture until the 1960s. -29 1961 ( ). His growing fame led to appearances on the nationally televised Steve Allen Show, where he made his debut with an unscripted comment on the recent marriage of Elizabeth Taylor to Eddie Fisher, wondering, "will Elizabeth Taylor become bat mitzvah? And they didnt have to know who my father is. [28]He had an affair with the jazz singerAnnie Rossin the late 1950s. Lenny Bruce is listed as a bohemian idol in the song 'La Vie Bohme' from the musical Rent The British Rapper Scroobius Pip mentions Bruce in the "Introdiction" to the album Distraction Pieces: "If I say fuck a lot well then I may gain more attention. Stamp Help Out! The official cause of death was "acute morphine poisoning caused by an accidental overdose. Lenny (novelization based on the Barry-scripted/Fosse-directed film) (Grove Press, Inc., 1974) Thomas, William Karl. Their approval provided a barometer of what bits worked and what didnt. [12] His parents divorced when he was five years old (the documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth claims he was eight years old), and Lenny lived with various relatives over the next decade. The Brooklyn, a light cruiser, carried a crew of 1300 men. Your father had to throw up his guts in the kitchen while some master sergeant schtuped your mother for our chocolate and cigarettes., I will tell you that when he came back from fighting and saw a Whites only or Coloreds only signs in diners it absolutely infuriated him, Kitty said. In a pamphlet he sold at concerts, Stamp Help Out!, there's a sketch about a dancer named Arnold who "chose show business because it was . Lennys final performances focused almost entirely on his lawsuits and, even on stage, were his law books, law journals, and legal briefs in case he wanted to reference some criminal law or penal code. Legacy[edit] Bruce was the subject of the 1974 biographical film Lenny directed by Bob Fosse and starring Dustin Hoffman (in an Academy Award-nominated Best Actor role), and based on the Broadway stage play of the same name written by Julian Barry and starring Cliff Gorman in his 1972 Tony Award winning role. Serialized in Playboy in 1964 and 1965, this material was later published as the book How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. His mother helped him get on stage and perform. Dropping out of high school, Lenny enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, which he almost disliked. He had been soliciting donations for a leper colony in British Guiana (now Guyana) under the auspices of the "Brother Mathias Foundation", which he had legally chartered the name was his own invention, but possibly referred to the actual Brother Matthias who had befriended Babe Ruth at the Baltimore orphanage to which Ruth had been confined as a child. The novel includes multiple themes, such as love, faith, a dysfunctional family, and wavering faith. You dont think those kids have heard this since 1942? Despite his prominence as a comedian, Bruce appeared on network television only six times in his life. ( ) . His mother, Sally Marr (ne Sadie Kitchenberg), was a stage performer who had an enormous influence on Bruce's career. Since he had a half hour to kill we walked and talked around the North Beach neighborhood. [Honey] sewed outfits for Bruce. Later in life, Lenny tells a story about a gay boy. He looked puffy. You can help by converting this article to prose, if appropriate. Lenny Bruce in 1963, after being arrested in San Francisco Bruce was arrested again in 1961, in Philadelphia, for drug possession and again in Los Angeles, California, two years later. Bruce's mother was considered to be a "godmother" of all comics. We all did. "You know why they hate Americans? The foundation, however, is still going strong, providing scholarships and education based on the Lennys House module. However Buddhist the notion, the truth, or emmes, as Lenny often chirped in Yiddish didnt assuage his utter despair by 1966. I was in some real daddies. It was his way of claiming that hed earned a right to air his views on the world. Sending, sending, sending, he would finally reach a point ofclairvoyancewhere he was no longer a performer but rather a medium transmitting messages that just came to him from out there from recall, fantasy, prophecy. He had declared bankruptcy in 1965, barely a year before his death. You know what those Americans did to your mother? In the last line of the song, Dylan recalls: "Lenny Bruce was bad, he was the brother that you never had. -1942, 16, , : -1943 -1944. The documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, directed by Robert B. Weide and narrated by Robert De Niro, was released in 1998. Lenny Bruce: The Comedian as Social Critic & Secular Moralist (Monad Press, 1974) Kringas, Damian. Cohen, John, ed., compiler. Genesis' 1974 song "Fly On A Windshield" depicts a dystopic New York where "Lenny Bruce declares a truce and plays his other hand, Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', head buried in the sand" and "Groucho, with his movies trailing, stands alone with his punchline failing". The show winded at two in the morning and included his takes on the Ku Klux Klan and JFK, among others. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. Their dialogue still rings in my ears. The Trials of Lenny Bruce. The most notable was the Brother Mathias Foundation scam, which resulted in Bruces arrest in, Under Honorable Conditions by reason of unsuitability for the naval service, A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert MacNamarad Into Submission), Its the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), Bruce is pictured in the top row of the cover of the Beatles 1967 album, The clip of a news broadcast featured in , Lenny Bruce is listed as a bohemian idol in the song La Vie Bohme from the musical. He paved the way for future outspokencounterculture-eracomedians, and his trial for obscenity is seen as a landmark for freedom of speech in the United States. Stand-up Comedians, place of death: Los Angeles, California, United States, Quotes By Lenny Bruce | In 2005, he received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Album Notes for his essay on the 6-CD package Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware. [33]Although the jury acquitted him, other law enforcement agencies began monitoring his appearances, resulting in frequent arrests under charges of obscenity. [31] The official photo, taken at the scene, showed Bruce lying naked on the floor, a syringe and burned bottle cap nearby, along with various other narcotics paraphernalia. To my right, the British cruiser Penelope was sunk. Bruce developed the complexity and tone of his material in Enrico Banducci's North Beach nightclub, "The hungry i," where Mort Sahl had earlier made a name for himself. On October 4, 1961, Bruce was arrested for obscenity[32]at theJazz WorkshopinSan Francisco; he had used the wordcocksuckerand riffed that tois apreposition,comeis averb, that the sexual context ofcomeis so common that it bears no weight, and that if someone hearing it becomes upset, he probably cant come. Branded a sick comic though it was the perceived sickness of modern society that he was railing about Lenny was essentially blacklisted from television, and, when he did appear thanks to sympathetic fans likeSteve AllenorHugh Hefner, it was with great concessions toBroadcast Standards and Practices. Lenny Bruce is Dead is the first book by author and radio presenter Jonathan Goldstein. First, they performed together as a duo but made far less than Honey earned as a stripper. Whenever he came to New York he would call. Hankin was present there that night in the audience. [34], On December 5, 1962, Bruce was arrested at the legendary Gate of Horn folk club in Chicago. He Was Forever Young. Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. They injected heroin. They lined her up, those bastards. She put her home up for collateral and bought a sixteen room house in Pittston, Pennsylvania for women dealing with addiction to go after their stint in rehab. The Los Angeles arrest took place in then-unincorporatedWest Hollywood, and the arresting officer was a young deputy namedSherman Block, who would later become County Sheriff. His 1964 conviction in anobscenitytrial was followed by aposthumouspardon, the first in New York State history, by then-GovernorGeorge Patakiin 2003. A campaign to overturn the 1964 obscenity conviction, led by Ron Collins and David Skover (authors of The Trials of Lenny Bruce), Kitty and her late mother (Honey died in 2006) inspired then New York Governor George E. Pataki to pardon Lenny in 2003. , " ", ( ", ). All day they had been loading her with wounded. However, he found it difficult to differentiate himself from the thousands of other show business hopefuls who populated the city. It was recorded and later released as a three-disc set, titled The Carnegie Hall Concert. Born Saturday, April 8, 1961 he was the son of Jerry Oakes of Stanford and the late Joyce Young Oakes. Quote Of The Day | Top 100 Quotes, See the events in life of Lenny Bruce in Chronological Order, (American Stand-Up Comedian and Social Critic). One day, he hung out for a while, asked a lot questions about what we did and then split. [16] According to Bruce's biographer, Albert Goldman, Ancis' humor involved stream-of-consciousness sexual fantasies, references to jazz, and stories of Jewish domesticity. We had a lot of fun together because we were in-sync with irreverence. I was a 20-year-old cartoonist new to London, dividing my time between freelancing for various newspapers and the more important business of afternoon drinking. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. Known as the Godfather of modern stand-up (along with Mort Sahl ), Lenny paved the way for legendary comics such as George Carlin, Joan Rivers, and Richard Pryor, but not without a cost. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Album Cover, ANU Museum of the Jewish People (formerly Beit Hatfutsot) Exhibit Project. The specification this time was that the comedian had used the word schmuck, an insulting Yiddish term that is an obscene term for penis. We were trapped by [German] bombers. In a span of two years, he was arrested over 15 times. The official cause of death was acutemorphinepoisoning caused by an accidentaloverdose., His remains were interred inEden Memorial Park CemeteryinMission Hills, California, but an unconventional memorial on August 21 was controversial enough to keep his name in the spotlight. Like. , . Cemetery officials had tried to block the ceremony after advertisements for the event encouraged attendees to bring box lunches and noisemakers. Bruce arrested in 1961 This desire to end his wife's stripper days led Bruce to pursue schemes that were designed to make as much money as possible. It was recorded and later released as a three-disc set, titledThe Carnegie Hall Concert. Due to his controversial material and being labeled as a sick comic, he was blacklisted from television and lost many of his gigs. One Friday night, he said to me, 'I just need to air something and I don't want you to have a dramatic reaction. After a short stint in California spent living with his father, Bruce settled in New York City, hoping to establish himself as a comedian. He soon appeared on the popular Steve Allen Show in 1959 and he ended up making comments that werent part of the script. Lenny Bruce spoke with a ferocious but graceful and jazz-like rhythm. Lenny was a former truck driver. , , 1957. , . Fifteen arrests for narcotics and obscenity in two years, deportation from England and a New York State obscenity conviction (which he was appealing) weighed heavily and exacerbated his already herculean drug habit. More . Hollywood movies and the high-drama of his days radio shows provided an escape from family tumult. He was later rumored to be in an affair with Annie Ross, a jazz vocalist. Lenny (play) (Grove Press, Inc. 1971) Bruce, Honey. His popularity among the masses did not diminish, despite the tarnished reputation. Lenny Bruce made the stage his pulpit, the audience his parishioners, and stand-up the sermons for his alternative secular faith. And then two years ago, the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation stepped forward with a generous gift making it possible for Brandeis to acquire and preserve Lennys papers which Kitty kept in her home. [25], In 1953, Bruce and Harlow eventually left New York for theWest Coast, where they got work as a double act at the Cup and Saucer in Los Angeles, California. Serialized inPlayboyin 1964 and 1965, this material was later published as the bookHow to Talk Dirty and Influence People. Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist. Other hitherto unissued materials and performances was soon released with the help of Phil Spector, Frank Zappa, and Fantasy Records. Bruce developed the complexity and tone of his material inEnrico BanduccisNorth Beachnightclub, Thehungry i, whereMort Sahlhad earlier made a name for himself. -1983 ( shot of love). "[47][48] Phil Ochs wrote a song eulogizing the late comedian, titled "Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore?". Leonard Alfred Schneider came into the world on October 13th, 1925. Born In: Mineola, New York, United States, Spouse/Ex-: Honey Bruce (m. 1951 - div. Like. Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. As the master of ceremonies, his job was to introduce the strippers while performing his own ever-evolving material. Two later records were produced and sold by Bruce himself, including a 10-inch album of the 1961 San Francisco performances that started his legal troubles. He was later rumored to be in an affair with Annie Ross, a jazz vocalist. Lenny took the stage as "Lenny Marsalle" one evening at the Victory Club, as a stand-in master of ceremonies for one of his mother's shows. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel executive producer and creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said she didn't need to do intense research into comedian Lenny Bruce's life for the show - because in some . I'm Lenny Bruce" begins its East Coast return with Oct. 14 and 15 performances at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Mass., minutes from the New York State border. Bruce then went on to join the bill at the club Strip City. He was popular for voicing out his beliefs through comedy as he was open about sex and vulgarity, and critical of politics and religion. The clubs of the Valley provided the perfect environment for Bruce to create new routines: according to Bruces primary biographer,Albert Goldman, it was precisely at the moment when he sank to the bottom of the barrel and started working the places that were the lowest of the low that he suddenly broke free of all the restraints and inhibitions and disabilities that formerly had kept him just mediocre and began to blow with a spontaneous freedom and resourcefulness that resembled the style and inspiration of his new friends and admirers, the jazz musicians of the modernist school.[27], Honey and Lennys daughter Kitty Bruce was born in 1955. : : Green globe.svg , -----------------------------------------. . From the "Berkeley Concert" CD.I have no rights or copyright claim to this - please. He was born in New York in 1925 to a podiatrist father and a mother who worked as an entertainer. He also released four albums of original material on Berkeley-based Fantasy Records, with rants, comic routines, and satirical interviews on the themes that made him famous: jazz, moral philosophy, politics, patriotism, religion, law, race, abortion, drugs, the Ku Klux Klan, and Jewishness. Recorded Dec. 4, 1962 at Chicago Gate of Horn (released 1995) 1964 Lenny Bruce is Out Again Self-published live recordings from 1958-63 (followed by totally different 1965 version PHLP-4010, produced by Phil Spector) 1965 The Berkeley Concert Recorded Dec. 12, 1965 (released 1971, produced by John Judnich and Frank Zappa) 2004 Let the Buyer Beware 6CD compilation of previously unreleased material, produced by Hal Willner. In addition to City Lights Bookstore owner, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, he also befriended members of the politically-driven improvisational comedy group, The Committee, which included future TV star Howard Hesseman, director Alan Myerson, and Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, to name only a few. He wanted to see his mother and started telling the ships shrink that he had urges and kept up the ruse enough to where he got discharged., A U.S. Navy crew-log dated December 15th 1942 lists SCHNEIDER, Leonard A, S2c, reporting for duty aboard the USS Brooklyn CL-40. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York State history, by then-Governor George Pataki in 2003. 1957), Quotes By Lenny Bruce They had a daughter, Kitty Bruce, in 1955. [17]In 1959, while taping the first episode of Hugh HefnersPlayboys Penthouse, Bruce talked about his Navy experience and showed a tattoo he received in Malta in 1942. Despite earlier fundraising efforts to keep Lennys House operational (the heating bills alone were $3000 a month) it had to close its doors. He is often credited to have single-handedly revolutionized stand-up routines by infusing political satire and attacking conventional norms. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. He didnt dress up as woman, lets get that straight, Kitty said. He and Harriet had one daughter, Kitty, born in 1955. The truth is what is. I made six. Being wed to a stripper tormented Lenny and he thought of ways to keep her out of burlesque. (September 2010). At forty. Burlesque was Lennys proving ground; MCing in nightclubs, up and down both coasts, he cultivated the incantatory patter that put him at a level above his peers. I learned the truth from Lenny Bruce, that all my wealth won't buy me health. Harlow found employment at the Colony Club, which was widely known to be the bestburlesqueclub in Los Angeles at the time. When he does, he . The Commandments of Lenny Bruce. His ideal was to walk out there like Charlie Parker, take that mike in his hand like a horn and blow, blow, blow everything that came into his head just as it came into his head with nothing censored, nothing translated, nothing mediated, until he was pure mind, pure head sending out brainwaves like radio waves into the heads of every man and woman seated in that vast hall. I would wait for an opportunity when Mr. Dengler was having a good laugh, and then I would catch him unawares and give him a big hug. Underworld, (Simon and Schuster Inc., 1997) Denton, Bradley. [19]According to Bruces biographer, Albert Goldman, Ancis humor involved stream-of-consciousness sexual fantasies, references to jazz, and stories of Jewish domesticity. He was hypnotic but much, much more than the typical comedian I was used to as a 20-year-old. Mrs. Dengler called me a kissing bug, but she never rejected me. After her stand-up debut during which she bares her breasts, Midge gets busted for indecency. -1998 . Personal life[edit] Bruce met his future wife, Honey Harlow, a stripper from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. Then one day I imagined him telling me, Come on Paul, you know you dont believe in that shit, channeling, and that ended it. Bruce, a standup comedian and social satirist, was famously arrested and jailed for obscenity, taking his case and issues of free speech all the way to the Supreme Court. He was buried at the Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Mission Hills, California. [40]In his later club performances Bruce was known for relating the details of his encounters with the police directly in his comedy routine. Lenny Bruce Christian, Two, Shirts 83 Copy quote Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. The scam netted $8,000 but he was arrested when the Miami Police Department caught wind of it. These performances often included rants about his court battles over obscenity charges, tirades against fascism and complaints that he was being denied his right to freedom of speech. ~ Lenny Bruce. Starting in the late 1950s, other unissued Bruce material was released byAlan Douglas,Frank ZappaandPhil Spector, as well as Fantasy. But listening to Out Again . They divorced in 1957 and Bruce won legal custody of his daughter, but spent little time with her. The service saw over 500 people pay their respects, led by Spector. By misrepresenting Lenny Bruce and Joan Rivers, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" risks doing a disservice to the history of Jewish comedy. Soon afterward, in 1947, just after changing his last name to Bruce, he earned $12 and a free spaghetti dinner for his first stand-up performance in Brooklyn, New York. These performances often included rants about his court battles over obscenity charges, tirades againstfascismand complaints that he was being denied his right tofreedom of speech. One was his plan to live and one was his plan to die. "[49] Lenny Bruce shows up as a character in Don DeLillo's 1997 novel, Underworld. My childhood seemed like an exodus from aunts and uncles and grandmothers, Lenny wrote. Dick Schaapeulogized Bruce inPlayboy, with the memorable last line: One last four-letter word for Lenny: Dead. Lenny Bruce was born Leonard Alfred Schneider inMineola, New York, grew up in nearbyBellmore, and attendedWellington C. Mepham High School. [38]Bruce was sentenced, on December 21, 1964, to four months in a workhouse; he was set free onbailduring theappealsprocess and died before the appeal was decided. In an interview for The Realist Lenny told Krassner that he had been teasing Kitty and pretended not to believe whatever she was telling him and that he delighted in his eight-year-old daughters clever response, Daddy, youd believe me if it was on tape.. [22] In 1959, Lenny's divorce from Honey was finalized.[23]. Lenny and Honeys only child Kitty was born in 1955 but their but the marriage fell apart and they were divorced in 1959. Bruce was known for his insistent drug use, and this was reportedly the cause of his death. Kitty was essentially raised by her grandmother, Lennys mother Sally, remembers Krassner. In 1953, Lenny Bruce wrote the screenplay for Dance Hall Racket, featuring himself, his wife Honey and mother Sally Bruce.He followed it with Dream Follies, 1954 and the children film The Rocket Man in 1954. Twenty years later Dick Cavett said, "He was a dazzling performer at his best . How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Playboy Publishing, 1967) By others: Barry, Julian. 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