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...movie is a series of one-liners and short skits involving the Oedipian Walter Dinsmore. The straightmen are the black comedy figures of the New York Scene: the bald psychiatrist (who speaks like Groucho Marx), the underground movie maker ("in underground movies the action is all behind the camera"), and the Jewish caterer. The show recalls the most thunderous moments of burlesque, irreverence armed and swaggering...
Harpo and Chico have passed away, and Gummo stayed home in California. But the whole wonderful family was there on film as Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art unreeled a three-week retrospective devoted to the Marx Brothers' comedies. Groucho, 71, now a distinguished man of letters with the publication this month of his correspondence, still looked very much like Hugo Z. Hackenbush or Wolf J. Flywheel when he dropped by for a night in the theater with his wife Eden, his brother Zeppo, 66, and Mrs. Zeppo, Barbara Marx. After watching himself lope through...
...dogmatic hardliner. It turns out that Soviet Ambassador Niko lai Fedorenlco, 54, is also reasonably good with the one-liners. He showed up on TV's Merv Griffin show, brandish ing a thick Havana cigar, which made him look as if he'd learned his Marx from Groucho. As he mentioned Channel 5, the station that broadcasts the show in New York, he grinned: "My wife likes Channel 5 (applause) . . . Chanel 5 from Paris, you know [laughter...
...will face up to and admit their own missteps. There are no accurate measurements, but this is suggested by many factors, from opinion surveys to the behavior of defendants in court. It is a hopeful sign, because perhaps the worst part of dishonesty is being dishonest with oneself. As Groucho Marx said: "There's one way to find out if a man is honest-ask him. If he says yes, you know he's crooked." Americans on the whole do not seem to overrate their dishonesty-or their honesty, either...
From the very first he did splendidly, winning an Emmy in his first year and holding his own against TV's mightiest (Milton Berle, Groucho Marx, Lucille Ball). Then in 1957 he announced his retirement "from the lights of TV to the shades and shadows of the Cross. As the retirement was dictated by spiritual considerations, so will be the moment of return." The exact spiritual considerations are not known, but Uncle Miltie has announced his return to the silver tube and so now has Uncle Fultie. Beginning in the fall on 30 syndicated stations, New York...