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...Hirschfeld sketch increased after 1945, when Dolly gave birth to their daughter Nina. Hirschfeld began hiding her name within his portraits of famous men and women - in a Gwyneth Paltrow gown, in a Groucho jacket fold. (Good thing they hadn't named the child Hildegarde.) Eventually he placed a numeral next to his signature - e.g., "Hirschfeld 5" - to indicate how often the Ninas appeared. Forty years before Martin Handford was playing "Where's Waldo?", Spotting the Ninas was the niftiest Sunday parlor game. I recall the little thrill I felt on first hearing of the ruse, back in college...
...from Brussels who are thought to be paving the way for a German conquest-by-checkbook. But privately, they have already calculated how much their E.U. subsidies will be worth. Having renounced Karl Marx, the people of the east are finding that Europe is like the club described by Groucho: not quite so desirable now that it will take them as members. What began as a grand project to reunite the sundered halves of Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is ending as a cold calculation of structural funds and subsidy levels. What used...
...fellation to cunnilingus as a visual trope in porn films.) "Deep Throat," which had opened the previous summer, was the "Immoral Mr. Teas" of hard-core: a gimmick comedy photographed in cheery primary colors and rendered harmless (and popular) by the amiable mugging of star Harry Reems, the Groucho of sex films...
...TIME: Does it frustrate you to see Sinn Fein doing so well? Durkan:Republican leaders are now clearly basking as statesmen because of the way the peace process has worked. It reminds some of us of Groucho Marx?s line about knowing Doris Day before she was a virgin; it?s hard sometimes for a party that has always stood for nonviolence and was threatened and intimidated by people who are now coming forward in Sinn Fein. We knew we were taking an electoral risk in encouraging Sinn Fein into the political process. But it?s still the best...
DIED. JOHN GUEDEL, 88, workaholic producer of popular '40s and '50s shows like Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life and Art Linkletter's People Are Funny; in Los Angeles. Before meeting Linkletter in 1941, Guedel got his start writing for TV's Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang comedies...