Word: harpo
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...truism: he who is funniest while performing is rarely appealing when the camera stops. In Groucho's case, his wit didn't abandon him off the set, but the man Kanfer discovers behind the joker is no fun at all. By the time he breaks up with Chico and Harpo, Groucho has become a crabby miser, shamefully manipulative of his wives and children. You wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have this guy as a member...
Commercial women's magazines are famous for defeating efforts to alter their standard formula, but none have ever encountered an editorial director who is also the host of an enormously popular women's magazine-on-the-air. O, a joint venture of Oprah's Harpo Entertainment Group and Hearst Magazines (which is printing 1 million copies of the first issue), is produced in New York City by a staff headed by editor in chief Ellen Kunes. A small, quiet, blond woman rendered even paler by the fluorescent bulbs of her office, Kunes was explaining the magazine last week with...