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Lenny Bruce

Gene Santoro, 'Highway 61 Revisited', 2004

THE SCENE: MIAMI in 1951. A 25-year-old strip show emcee initiates his first public demonstration of what would, decades later, be called performance art. It is built around a scam: the Brother Matthias Foundation for Lepers.

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