Right on both counts, Sean.
Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.
Spike ,'Showtime'
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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.
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.
Sean K - Oct 27, 2004 1:22:50 pm PDT #5256 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think Harpo's utterly wordless comedy has always been my favorite. Plus, he was an inveterate skirt-chaser (both on-screen and off).
tommyrot - Oct 27, 2004 1:23:47 pm PDT #5257 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A friend of mine's dog is named Harpo. She gets asked a lot if the dog is named after Oprah's production company.
Hayden - Oct 27, 2004 1:36:14 pm PDT #5258 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I would never think "Oprah" when hearing "Harpo."
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.
Well, none are up to the "Lemmy" standard...
Aims - Oct 27, 2004 1:36:32 pm PDT #5259 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aimée, she doesn't have the body, but I still think she can out act Halle in the role.
ITA, ita. (That kinda makes me giggle) Is the body as important to Storm and her character as say...ummm...ok, I don't my know my comics characters well enough to go there.
As a very obvious fan of Storm, would Storm being played by a more statuesque woman detract from her as a character? For me, no. But I don't share in the Strom love that you have as a reader of the comics.