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Auction archive: Lot number 77

Lenny Bruce calls Hugh Hefner mentally ill liar

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 77

Lenny Bruce calls Hugh Hefner mentally ill liar

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Four telegram sheets. Each 15.5x21 cm (6¼x8¼"). Bruce telegraphs his agent and manager Jack Sobel about trouble with payment from Hugh Hefner, "When I suspected Hugh Hefner was lying you told me no worry when Paul Krasner told Hefner ‘everything they said is true. 2500 is yours.’ Then I didn’t get the 2500. ...I definitely want to know … how you can deny Hugh Hefner is a liar... Similar to all mentally ill people who are compulsive liars they are dangerous, and since he has a huge ego problem, if you thwart him he is liable because of embarrassment to chuck the whole deal even if it hurts him. Whatever you do don’t call him a liar. Just fight business style to get me a bigger paperback percentage and let him know 'n a cute way that the considerable advance to Krassner 'covered the room and board’…"

Auction archive: Lot number 77
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jun 2019
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Four telegram sheets. Each 15.5x21 cm (6¼x8¼"). Bruce telegraphs his agent and manager Jack Sobel about trouble with payment from Hugh Hefner, "When I suspected Hugh Hefner was lying you told me no worry when Paul Krasner told Hefner ‘everything they said is true. 2500 is yours.’ Then I didn’t get the 2500. ...I definitely want to know … how you can deny Hugh Hefner is a liar... Similar to all mentally ill people who are compulsive liars they are dangerous, and since he has a huge ego problem, if you thwart him he is liable because of embarrassment to chuck the whole deal even if it hurts him. Whatever you do don’t call him a liar. Just fight business style to get me a bigger paperback percentage and let him know 'n a cute way that the considerable advance to Krassner 'covered the room and board’…"

Auction archive: Lot number 77
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jun 2019
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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