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Spun Lepton
10-13-2009, 10:21 PM
I've always been strangely fascinated by Andy Kaufman. He had such a bizarre, but none-the-less endearing, sense of humor. You could never tell if he was having a laugh at the audience's expense.

Anyway, when Kaufman was going through his "wrestling women" phase, he received a lot of hate mail, which has been compiled into a book. This is something I'm probably going to check out. Thought I'd share it in case anybody else found Kaufman interesting and/or amusing in his own weird way.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/10/andy-kaufmans-wrestling-career-put-to-the-printed.html

Adam
10-20-2009, 11:48 AM
Love Kaufman, based almost solely on his '70s SNL appearances. I had heard about this book a few months ago and it's just depressing to me more than anything. Kaufman really is this tragic figure who people largely never seemed to understand and there's some good stuff about what he was like off camera in Tom Shale's Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

Scroll down to the 2nd video on this page (http://www.avclub.com/articles/mary-kay-placewillie-nelson,13411/) to see one of my favorite bits of his