Lenny Bruce Without Tears
"On the front page of the NY Times, at my door, one hot summer morning
in August, 1966–there it finally was, it said, 'Lenny Bruce Dies at
his home in Los Angeles. Overdose of drugs suspected..' Over coffee that morning, my wife Barbara and I looked at each other
and, like twins, said 'he was our good friend--let's do a film about
him, we'll start right away!' It took us three years just to find all the right pieces but, in the
long run, it's the best thing to have ever done." (FB)
1971 Documentary 78 minutes B&W
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"Fred Baker's skillfully researched documentary shows the demise of the iconoclastic comic with anger, biting humor and sorrow...detailing his attacks on religion and hypocracy until the last devastating pictures of him dead on the bathroom floor..." Linda Gross, The Los Angeles Times |
