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...much conflict between concepts of good and evil as tragedy, and accordingly are very strict about who their heroes and villains are and what values are being knocked around. There is substance in laughing at their films because the tricks played have moral meaning. Chaplin's imitation is funny, Groucho's anti-establishment pranks on hotel-managers and rich matrons are funny. Gene Wilder's charicature of Dr. Frankenstein is funny; the audience cheers them on. Jack Nicholson dumping the heiress in a birdbath is discomfiting because she's nice and he's a slimy creep. The indignity should...
...buried. His persona is still the kind of man whose profile should not be painted but wallpapered. His situations continue to bear traces of two Keatons. In this case, Buster is the right source; Diane is not. Allen's longtime companion is saddled with Lines that make her Groucho in bombazine ("Thank you, your grubbiness"). Because she cannot generate a style of her own, Keaton soon draws attention to the film maker's weakness: his movies, populated solely with Woody Allens, are like Walt Disney's old Goofy cartoons, in which every character assumed the lineaments...
Hecht opened the deliveries with a humorous poem that purported to be an alcohol-inspired vision of a Hollywood production of the Bicentennial, casting Groucho Mars as P.T. Barnum...
...radio networks, in fact, require that celebrities have at least some allegiance to the products that they claim to enjoy. So have many ad agen cies. Jerry Delia Femina, who handles the Teacher's Scotch account, dealt pragmatically with the problem. When Groucho Marx, Jimmy Breslin, Mel Brooks, Tommy Smothers, et al, agreed to appear in Teacher's ads, his agency started sending them two cases of Scotch a month. And it takes no suspension of disbelief to credit Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle with downing a great deal of Lite Beer...
...Marx Brothers M-G-M extravaganzas anymore, with their water-ballets and cupie-doll tenor heroes thrown in among the more or less emasculated brothers. So Monkey Business from the tacky Paramount days comes as blessed relief, reaffirmation and so on. It is wonderful. This is the one where Groucho, Chico and most importantly Harpo all do imitations of Maurice Chevalier singing "Eef a Nightengale Cood Sin Lak You" and where Grouch announces that "love goes out the door when money comes innuendo". The script was by S.J. Pereiman and it doesn't really matter who directed since...