Word: grouchos
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...everyone is thrilled with Ybor City?s latest attraction. Last weekend, protesters gathered on the district?s streets wearing bandannas, gas masks and Groucho Marx-style glasses and moustaches - anything to hide their features and thwart the cameras. "Digitize this!" one of them shouted, thrusting a finger into the camera lens...
...upbeat message (remember: "Survivor" did no harm on Thursday night! None!) that bespoke the nervousness throughout the industry about the soft ad market. Execs invoked the golden days of big-network television, reaching a ludicrous apex when West Coast president Scott Sassa likened "Weakest Link" host Anne Robinson to Groucho Marx. At times, NBC's pageant of self-butt-kissing even contradicted itself, as when Zucker's old "Today" colleagues came on stage and talked about his leaving their show to "save the network." Wait a minute - wasn't the message that the network never needed saving? Didn't they...
...none of these categories appeals to you, look to classic fare, from older Disney movies to true classics like Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers. After all, marketing techniques may come and go, but Groucho endures forever...
...this case, the Westerners' ignorance can be a gift. Local viewers have to juggle jagged images of a personality who is the Japanese equivalent of Groucho Marx on the small screen and Humphrey Bogart on the big one. Westerners have no vision of Takeshi the TV clown to erase before they can accept him as an existential...
...verbal comic, Allen was the fastest gun in the business, and a true heir to Groucho Marx for his inventiveness with language, constantly pirouetting around the tired cliché or the pretentious phrase. Yet he had an infallible internal censor that kept his wisecracks from ever being cheap, or risqué, or mean. He kept a police whistle at his desk, which he'd blow whenever a line or bit of business crossed the line. He remained old-fashioned that way, as well as in his stubborn refusal, unlike Carson and almost everyone that followed, to do "savers" when...