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The cartoonist and writer proved that the deadliest skewering is informed by understanding. After watching Gore Vidal’s play An Evening with Richard Nixon (1972) Jules Feiffer unexpectedly found ...

Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist and playwright whose syndicated comic strip ran for four decades, has died. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner was 95.

Playboy, a brand now synonymous with sex, was launched by Hugh Hefner in the 1950s in Chicago.

Once the most offensive filmmaker in the business, the provocateur behind 'Pink Flamingos' gets an Academy Museum show and a star on the Walk of Fame.

Lenny Bruce is coming back to town. Though on previous visits he mainly kept to the city, this time he’ll be in Skokie. Though dead for nearly 60 years, the controversial and influential comi… ...

Julian Barry, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the 1974 Lenny Bruce biopic "Lenny" starring Dustin Hoffman, has died at 92.

Julian Barry, whose 1971 Broadway play and 1974 movie, both titled Lenny and both telling the story of comic Lenny Bruce, died Tuesday.

Julian Barry backstage during rehearsals for a 1999 London production of “Lenny.” “In the play, I mythologized Lenny Bruce,” he said. Nobby Clark/Popperfoto, via Getty Images ...

The final season's flash-forwards left many wondering how Bruce's real-life fate would be addressed.