We have the Marx box set and I urge any orf you who haven't seen Day at the Races or Night at the Opera Or Duck Soup to do so THIS INSTANT.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
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Scrappy - Oct 27, 2004 12:08:15 pm PDT #5246 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hayden - Oct 27, 2004 12:29:50 pm PDT #5247 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Seconding Scrappy on the Marx Bros. recommendations.
Sean K - Oct 27, 2004 12:32:50 pm PDT #5248 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I had Duck Soup on tape for a while (that's the one with the country of Freedonia, right?).
I also have great love for Animal Crackers (which is the one where Groucho plays Captain Spalding, yes?).
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 12:33:46 pm PDT #5249 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aimée, she doesn't have the body, but I still think she can out act Halle in the role.
Scrappy - Oct 27, 2004 12:34:32 pm PDT #5250 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Right on both counts, Sean.
Sean K - Oct 27, 2004 12:37:24 pm PDT #5251 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Last night I dreamt I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know.
::waggles cigar and eyebrows::
Kathy A - Oct 27, 2004 12:47:09 pm PDT #5252 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
"Hold me closer--closer!"
"If I held you any closer, I'd be in back of you."
Margaret Dumont was the perfect straight woman, more so because she apparently really didn't get their humor at all, and was as oblivious to it in real life as she played it onscreen.
Hayden - Oct 27, 2004 1:14:16 pm PDT #5253 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I know a guy (a close friend of Joe Boucher's, actually) who named his son "Julius" after Groucho. I thought about naming my kid after one of the Marx Brothers, but, unfortunately, Harpo's real name was Adolph.
Mr. Broom - Oct 27, 2004 1:20:55 pm PDT #5254 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Chico's real name was Leonard, Zeppo's was Herbert, Gummo's was Milton, and Harpo's first name chnage was to Arthur, if that helps.
ETA: Interesting side note: the actual first Marx, Manfred, died in infancy.
Kathy A - Oct 27, 2004 1:21:15 pm PDT #5255 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The first time I saw a Marx Brothers film (I must have been around 10 or so), I was amused by the comic hijinks, but what blew me away was that they would stop everything so that Harpo could play an achingly gorgeous solo on his harp, and then go right back to hamming it up. Loved the juxtaposition.