Word: grouchos
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...never fully understood the meaning of that Groucho Marx quip until I arrived at Harvard, where there really are clubs that won't have me as a member...
...answering this question, the play takes off in all sorts of comic directions. There are phone calls to the playwright himself incorporating a tape recorded voice that sounds pretty much like Woody Allen, and an appearance by Blanche DuBois, followed by Groucho Marx and a messenger from Western Union. All these arbitrary appearances serve to make the play a bizarre and entertaining satire of drama in general...
...Force Kiki Vandeweghe to wear a pair of Groucho Marx glasses: One of two things will happen. Either Vandeweghe will think he's been transmogrified into Kurt Rambis and start to grab rebounds like he hasn't done in decades. Or the disguise will distract the Celtics...
...time, he heard his first recordings of Lewis and was immediately enthralled by the clarinetist's lyrical, emotional style. To this day, Woody models his own playing on Lewis' and speaks of him with a reverence he accords to only a handful of his culture heroes, including Willie Mays, Groucho Marx and Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. "He was a great, great artist on the clarinet," enthuses Woody. "He had that sort of sweet, soulful, just beautiful, beautiful sound...
...were in the 1986 World Series, sports-junkie Woody showed up with a tiny transistor television and propped it up on his music stand so he could watch the game while he played. Trombonist Dick Dreiwitz and his wife Barbara, the tuba player, tell of a surprise visit by Groucho Marx. "After one of Woody's solos," says Barbara, "Groucho reached up and handed him a few pennies as a tip." Psychiatrist Ron Brady, a friend of Woody's, recalls the time a man claiming to be a biologist walked into Michael's and asked Woody for a skin sample...