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Lenny Bruce wrote and starred in a movie (Dance Hall Racket) for the same producer (George Weiss) that Ed Wood worked on Glen or Glenda with.

Lyle Talbot has a role in both films. Lenny Bruce referenced some of Ed's cohorts in several of his bits.

When Bela died, Lenny said that Bela had just spent several months in a hospital kicking his addiction; "what kind of example does this show for such treatments?".

He called Criswell some sort of low budget Nostradamus. I think there may be at least one more reference. I don't think that they ran in the same circles when they were both writing articles for men's magazines (Ed's weren't as high profile or "acceptable", Lenny appeared alongside articles from Isaac Asimov, Jack Kerouac, and others).

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Interesting trivia. Two great martyrs to American Weirdness.

(And I might point out that Lenny Bruce, far from being a leftist, was actually a proto-libertarian who praised free enterprise "because it gives you a CHOICE, baby!")