Sandy Baron’s Life Reprised Lenny Bruce’s

This is in response to the article “After a Fall, He Had the Last Laugh” (May 15). Sandy Baron seemed a gentle comic when I first saw him on television in the ‘70s, so I was really eager to attend when he was billed in the play “Lenny” in San Diego. I knew Lenny’s story, but the play was more than a heart-rending eye-opener about police indifference and governmental abridgment of human rights.

It was a story of one person’s struggle to explain this world we live in. And Sandy was Lenny. So much so that I wasn’t surprised when he began to encounter the same sort of problems with life and freedom of artistic expression that had characterized Lenny’s life.

Thanks for writing about this man whose gentleness, at least on camera, was always his most endearing quality.

--R.H. BRAY

Encinitas