From: Gregory Brown To: undisclosed-recipients:; Bcc: [email protected] Subject: Greg Brown's Weekend Reading and Other Things.. 5/15/2016 Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 07:18:55 +0000 Attachments: Lenny_Bruce_bio.docx; Gato_Barbieri_bio.docx Inline-Images: image.png; image(I).png; image(2).png; image(3).png; image(4).png; image(5).png; image(6).png; image(7).png; image(8).png; image(9).png; image(10).png; image(11).png; image(12).png; image(13).png; image(14).png; image(I5).png; image(16).png; image(I7).png; image(18).png; image(19).png DEAR FRIEND Lenny Bruce Long before there was a Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Bill Cosby, the voice of open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity that was the life blood of the counter-culture of the 1950s and 6os was that of Lenny Bruce — American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and screenwriter — and truly one of the greatest that ever was.... as well as someone who inspired me coming of age in the early 1960s.... Leonard Alfred Schneider was born on October 13, 1925 in Mineola, New York, grew up in nearby Bellmore, and attended Wellington C. Mepham High School. His parents divorced when he was five EFTA00695057