On the town and on the set with the biopic version of Lenny.
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A public figure from earliest adulthood, he bore the spotlight with casual ease.
He was cool, with the masculine allure of a 50s movie star.
He was also hot.
He always seemed disheveled and battle weary, as if being Lenny were one ceaseless endurance test.
He slowed a tempo until the score dissolved or cranked it so the musicians could barely keep up.
(His daughter Jamie, for instance: See her memoir,Famous Father Girl.)
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