Word: grouchos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast, speaks in stilted language with a stilted articulation that is too melodramatic even for a melodrama--a far cry from Charlie Chaplin the appealing tramp, whose title frames said things like "I thought you was a chicken." He even tries to make patter jokes in the style of Groucho Marx, but his delivery isn't punchy and the jokes fall flat...
Horse Feashers 1932 Marx Brothers classic with Groucho as dean of a college. A funnier foot ball sequence that "M.A.S.H...
...where people are nice." Surprisingly enough, she never does, though, and at the end of her first performance -- on board ship, since the WPA is bulldozing her theater to turn it into a roller risk--her boyfriend Dick assures her that "All Broadway is at your feet" where, as Groucho Marz once remarked, there's always plenty of room. There has to be, because the whole cast spends most of its time tapdancing over the whole goddamned stage, as Holden Caulfield or somebody eloquently...
...into a florid cross between Kaiser Bill and Colonel Blimp, querulously posing in a drawing room on a white horse. Do such absurdities matter? Not if Russell's aim was slapstick parody. Yet, to judge from his publicity, Russell believes that his erratic mediation between Vasari and Groucho Marx tells some truth about the creative processes of his hero. But it does not, and so Gaudier-Brzeska joins the line of artists - Gauguin, Michelangelo, Van Gogh - whom the movies have turned into silhouettes of the romantic outsider...
Playing the part of a girl once hooked on Karl Marx, Barbra Streisand suddenly found herself surrounded by Marxes: Grouchos, Chicos, Harpos...It was a scene in a new film, The Way We Were-a costume party to which Barbra, Co-Star Robert Redford and all the other guests came as Marx Brothers. Among the onlookers: Groucho Marx himself, at 82 the only survivor of the famous trio. Groucho offered suggestions, dropped a few quips, and listened to the others recite some of the lines from his films. Sample: "This morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas...