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Bridgeport Mural The Latest In Chicago's Long Line Of Art Censorship

Chicago Sun-Times | Neil Steinberg | Posted 06.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Censorship, Bridgeport Mural, Mayor Daley, Chicago Art Censorship, James Balcer, Lenny Bruce, Censorship, Art Censorship, Chicago News

[W]e need put this latest act in perspective. We are a city where, not so long ago, outraged aldermen led cops into the School of the Art Institute --...

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Media Notes from All Over (Belatedly)

William Klein | Posted 07.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Chandra Levy, Lenny Bruce, Washington Post, Humor, New Yorker Cover, Satire, Barack Obama, Media News
William Klein

Media Notes from All Over (somewhat belatedly) First, about that New Yorker cover: to quote Steve Martin, comedy isn't pretty. As a satire practiti...

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The Question Carlin Left Behind: What is Obscenity?

Danny Schechter | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: George Carlin, Ugly George, Obscenity, Aclu, Fcc, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin Seven Words, Censorship, Standards and Practices, Entertainment News
Danny Schechter

Comic social commentators like George Carlin, Lenny Bruce and mavericks like New York's Ugly George have been uncturing the pervasive hypocrisy on the issue of obscenity laws.

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Remembering George Carlin

Paul Krassner | Posted 07.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: George Carlin, The Realist, Lenny Bruce, Carlin Dead, George Carlin Death, George Carlin Dead, Entertainment News
Paul Krassner

Carlin was uncompromising, knowing that his audience trusted him not to be afraid of offending them. Who else would have asked "Why are there no recreational drugs in suppository form?"

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A Green Room Memory of George Carlin

Lea Lane | Posted 07.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Jeopardy!, Richard Pryor, Andy Kaufman, George Carlin, Entertainment, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin Death, George Carlin Dies, Entertainment News
Lea Lane

Like some of the other original comics who died too soon -- Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Andy Kaufman-- George Carlin changed comedy, nudging and sometimes pushing it along.

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