Word: eyetalian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weirder routines, Bruce imagines Evangelist Oral Roberts putting in a long-distance call to the Vatican: "Hello, John, what's shaking, baby? Say, that puff of white smoke was genius. By the way, Billy Graham wants to know if you can get him a deal on those Eyetalian sports cars." Appearing at San Francisco's hungry i last week (at $2,500 a week), Bruce seemed to amuse most of the customers, outraged many, and quickly got into a feud with the San Francisco Chronicle's celebrated columnist Herb Caen, who called Bruce a bore. Lenny retaliated...
Professionally, the other Marx Brothers haven't worn nearly so well. Harpo, once the rage of several continents, has just finished a series of television commercials for a milk company; Chico does his hoary piano routine and Eyetalian dialect around nightclubs; Gummo, who quit the act for good to become a World War I doughboy, is his brothers' agent Zeppo, now out of show business altogether, manufactures airplane parts...
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