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Bruce Jay Friedman’s cartoonist son reflects on his father’s legacy

Drew Friedman believes his dad was a sunny optimist despite the black humor he came to be known for

Josh, Bruce Jay, Kipp and Drew Friedman.

Drew Friedman was just a kid when his father first brought him to Elaine’s, the legendary Upper East Side bar and restaurant where celebrities rubbed elbows with literary types in a New York that no longer exists. “I’d be...

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