The Real Deal

Just picked up a copy of Lenny Bruce's autobiography/confession/rant, "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People." It's published by Playboy Books, has an introduction by Kenneth Tynan (who tried repeatedly and failed to bring Bruce to Britain -- the Home Office labelled the comedian an "undesirable person"), and is dedicated to Jimmy Hoffa ("because he hired ex-convicts as, I assume, Christ would have"). Now THAT'S a book.