Lenny Page #2

Synopsis: Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological humor.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Bob Fosse
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
R
Year:
1974
111 min
393 Views


I guess when you get right down to it,

I'm just... basically...

a very shy person.

- Ho-ho.

- Don't you have to go to work?

Yes, I do, but I think I should stay here

and try to solve this problem

of extreme shyness.

Well, maybe I shouldn't be

telling you some of this, but...

Well, it was quite a week.

- Honey?

- Hmm?

Listen, someday I'd like you

to meet my mother.

- Did you stay together then?

- No, I had to go to Miami to work.

But, uh, Lenny called every day.

And... then one day he called

and said he was coming down

cos he couldn't stand to be without me.

We're all the same schmuck!

And it just cracks me up that we

try so desperately to be unique

when we're all the same cat -

Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson,

me, you, every cat has got that one

chick who really busted up his ass!

Wow!

I LOVE YOU:

THE GUY IN 505

Oh, he's here!

Just a minute.

There he stands in his underwear,

pleading like a dummy:

"Please, will you touch it once? You

never touch it any more. Just once. "

"When I don't feel like it?

When I got a headache?"

- "Yeah. "

- "When I don't get any pleasure from it?"

"Yeah, that's right. Cos I'm a dummy,

I gotta get it touched. "

"If I wait for you, you'd never touch it. "

"Oh, I touch it a lot. "

"No, you don't. You think you touch

it a lot. You used to touch it a lot. "

"Now it's a big favour

to get you to touch it. "

"It's gotta be like a big holiday,

like Armistice Day, right?"

"Well, all right. "

"If you're gonna make me feel guilty,

bring it over here, I'll touch it. "

"No, no, no, don't do me any favours!

I'll just touch it myself. "

That's it, man.

We're all the same schmuck.

Oh, my God.

Oh, man! Is that an album cover!

Why don't you come in,

big boy, and pick a few flowers?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

It's a shiksa goddess.

That's about the time

I came into the picture.

In what capacity?

What was your relationship?

Personal manager. Friend.

You know... the relationship

between a client and an agent

is a very delicate one. Very delicate.

You don't know how far to get involved

in their personal lives.

Lenny, you name it, she's done it.

I mean, the whole bit.

By the time she was 15,

she had already done time.

So you can just imagine.

Lenny, I'd like to be more

than just an agent to you.

I think you know how I feel.

I mean, otherwise I would never

be telling you these things.

What did you do, Artie?

Hire a private eye?

I didn't have to.

Well, I heard you two were hanging

around a lot together, you know.

It was none of my business,

but I just started asking

around about her and...

- I started hearing these things.

- I love you.

Well, there was this one guy

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Julian Barry

Julian Barry (born 1930) is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for his Oscar-nominated script for the film Lenny about comedian Lenny Bruce. Barry adapted the script from his successful Broadway play of the same name. The film, directed by Bob Fosse and starring Dustin Hoffman and Valerie Perrine, was nominated for the so-called Oscar Grand Slam, one of some 40 films to be so honored. Barry wrote or rewrote screenplays for several notable films including The River starring Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek, Eyes of Laura Mars starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones, and Rhinoceros, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, Me, Myself and I, starring George Segal and Jobeth Williams, and the American Playhouse production for PBS, A Marriage - Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, starring Christopher Plummer and Jane Alexander. He also appeared as himself in the film documentary Pablo, about the graphic artist and film director Pablo Ferro. Barry resides in Redding, Connecticut, but is frequently in London for theater work. He is not to be confused with the English singer/songwriter of the same name. His autobiography My Night With Orson was published in 2011. more…

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