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The latter arrest took place in then-unincorporated West Hollywood, and the arresting officer was a young deputy named Sherman Block, who later became county sheriff. The charge this time was that the comedian had used the word "schmuck", an insulting Yiddish word that was also considered a term for "penis". The Hollywood charges were later ...
Here are five comedians who were arrested over material they performed onstage. Before obscenity laws were deemed unconstitutional in the early 1970s, comedians risked the threat of arrest for ...
One of the less enthusiastic reviews came from Roger Ebert, stating, "Unless we go in convinced that Lenny Bruce was an important performer, the movie doesn't convince us." [ 6 ] In 2012, British film critic Mark Kermode put Hoffman's performance as Lenny Bruce at number eight in a top-ten video of Hoffman's best performances.
He was arrested on May 7, 1997, at his apartment in Hollywood, California. [26] The court released him on bail and he left for a trip to the Caribbean . When he returned on May 13, 1997, he was arrested at Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey , after detectives in Omaha, Nebraska , connected him to a similar rape at the University ...
[22] [23] On June 23, 2003, he was arrested in Austin, Texas, for heroin possession. [24] On October 12, 2004, Hedberg sat in on the news with Robin Quivers on The Howard Stern Show . He appeared on the show again on March 17, 2005, two weeks before his death, this time with Quivers and Artie Lange present, and briefly discussed his drug use ...
The Orange County Sheriff's Department took the actor into custody after a man accused him of sexual assault — the latest in a long list of controversies.
Bill Cosby is facing more legal turmoil for alleged sexual assault, more than a year after he was freed from prison in 2021.. In a lawsuit filed Monday in New York state court, five women ...
Federal law also bans broadcasting (but not cable or satellite transmission) of "indecent" material during specified hours. [1] Most obscenity cases in the United States in the past century have involved images or films, but there have also been prosecutions of textual works as well, a notable one being that of the 18th-century novel Fanny Hill.