Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce - (New York, 1925 - Los Angeles, 1966) in just 20 years and with no more than six television appearances, became one of the most controversial icons of popular culture in the United States. His last two years were marked by his addiction to morphine and his problems with the law. Despite receiving the support of personalities such as Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg or Norman Mailer, he was sentenced to four months of work in a correctional institution for possession and consumption of drugs; He appealed and, before the court ruled, he died of an overdose at his Hollywood Hills home.