Lenny Bruce Articles

Valerie Perrine, Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse's Lenny LENNY Review Part I Bob Fosse's direction is hardly any help. Throughout much of the film, Fosse's touch is either too heavy or too squeamish. Bruce's private dramas are handled with an overemphasis that turns them into lurid melodrama, while sex scenes and drug-soaked orgies could have been directed with more verve by cloistered nuns. And if [...]

LENNY (1974) Direction: Bob Fosse Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck, Gary Morton Screenplay: Julian Barry; from his own play Oscar Movies Dustin Hoffman, Lenny Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic Lenny has two chief assets: the still relevant free speech issues it raises and Valerie Perrine's scene-stealing turn as the tragic Honey (Marlowe) Bruce. The film itself is neither riveting nor entertaining; in [...]