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...Lenny Henry’s character August is talking about his school photo, where he appeared as “the tiny black smudge over on the left by the kitchens”....
...Another newly launched podcast, Black British Lives Matter, is described by its host, British actor and comedian Lenny Henry, as “jollof rice for the mind, jerk chicken for the spirit”....
...American guitarist Lenny Kravitz tweeted “Farewell Dear Johnny . . . Your soul is pure Rock and Roll”, while Canadian singer Céline Dion in a tweet called him “a legend of show business”....
...These ads indicate a shift, says Lenny Stern, co-founder of SS+K, an M&C Saatchi-owned agency in New York that has its roots in political campaigning (Priorities USA, the Clinton-supporting political action...
...They detect the influence of the blues on the raucous comedy of Richard Pryor, for example, but not his white counterpart Lenny Bruce....
...The path of profits and green morality lie on the same bearing for the determined Ms Thompson....
...“These were guys who learned how to drive fast on dirt, trying to escape the law,” Thompson says....
...There has been a more recent vogue for the memoirs of the newest caste of professional hard-men, nightclub bouncers such as Geoff Thompson, who generally stay out of jail....
...And just in front of me there’s a tall black man, who slipped into his seat as the lights dimmed: the comedian Lenny Henry, husband of Dawn French....
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