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Article: The resurrection of Don Imus; The shock jock rises, with a little help from Lenny Bruce.(Essay)
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- August 13, 2007
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DON IMUS has a cockroach's knack for survival. Over four decades on and off the air, the down-and-out uranium-mine worker turned multimillionaire thinking-man's shock jock has made an art form out of bouncing back. He's had drug problems, alcohol problems, health scares, and career crises, but somehow, Imus has always managed to step back from the brink. In 1977, for instance, he was famously fired from his job at WNBC radio for his dissipated ways and did a stint at Hazelden, only to resurface at a new station, more popular than ever. But this time, it seemed, he was cooked.
It was Thursday, April 12, and Imus had been slow-roasting for a week, ever since he ...