Word: grouchos
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...they ever have another filibuster in Washington, Pamela should lead it," says Groucho Marx. "She's the steadiest-talking woman I ever encountered. It's invariably about sex-but that's an interesting subject...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Mr. and Mrs. Groucho Marx star in a comedy written by Groucho and Norman Krasna...
Luckily, Kubrick has found actors who can inject significance, even tragedy, into the brash, punnish script. Chomping ceaselessly on a frayed cigar butt, Sterling Hayden's General Ripper represents a curious amalgam of William Holden and Groucho Marx. Yet, the character deepens magnificently, if momentarily, when Hayden stares shakily into the camera and wimpers his resolve to "keep my bodily fluids safe from women and the Reds." Somehow there is more than foolishness here. When the general stalks awkwardly into the washroom to shoot himself, a surge of pity undercuts the laughter. Hayden has almost created a Quixote; the nature...
...hands that grip the gouges are as calloused as a carpenter's; the eyes that guide them brood with the sad sensitivity of a romantic poet. A chipper, Groucho Marxist mustache contradicts both hands and eyes. They all belong to Printmaker Antonio Frasconi, 44, one of the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artists. In February, more than 80 of his whorled and scratch-lined works (see opposite page) will begin a two-year long tour of U.S. museums. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, the show demonstrates Frasconi at his versatile best, running from bright, bird-wreathed seascapes to dark...
...Hope actually belongs on some sort of Mount Rushmore, his nose cantilevered on reinforcing rods near Groucho Marx's cigar and Jack Benny's bow. Hope is the longest-running one-line stand-up snap-it-out comedian in the history of show business. His jokes now have more polish than brass, but they keep coming, with energy and perfect timing. He says he'll never quit: "If I retired, I'd be surrounded by about nine psychiatrists. I'm not retiring until they carry me away, and I'll have a few routines...