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...Four Marx Brothers--Groucho, mute Harpo, Italianate Chico (pronounced Chick-o) and straight man Zeppo--weren't the fathers of every aggressive film comic from the Stooges to Sandler, they were surely their Dadas. And they're seen to best effect on The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (UMVD, $59.98), which gathers the five Paramount farces they made from 1929 to '33: The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business and Duck Soup. Compared with the bounty of extras offered on the recent package of seven other Marx Brothers films, the new DVD is pretty skimpy: no commentary, no documentaries...
...work of James Castle provides the superlative example of meaningful intensity. Born deaf and mute and never able to read or write, his drawings were his only form of communication with the external world. With no access to art supplies of any kind, Castle spent his life drawing on scraps of found paper—ranging from envelopes to flattened matchbooks—using pigment he created by combining oily soot from his wood burning stove with his own saliva. This is a man who needed to make art so badly that literally nothing could stop him; the sheer intensity...
People who were offended at the way Miller treated Monroe in After the Fall won't like Finishing the Picture any better. Kitty (Heather Prete) is mostly offstage (and when onstage, mostly mute), the object of everyone else's analysis. They romanticize her fragility ("She's been stepping on broken glass since she could walk"). They lament the burden of fame ("Everyone wants something from her; we're no exceptions"). In After the Fall the Marilyn character (especially as played by the magnetic Carla Gugino in the recent revival) was an alternately charming and infuriating force of nature. Here...
...quite possibly, the single most approachable person to ever ride the New York City subway. Just one glance in my direction assures harried tourists that I ought to be their first choice to ask the way to the Staten Island Ferry or the Museum of Natural History. The deaf mute selling the flash cards featuring basics of American Sign Language always navigates his way through a sea of commuters and right into my lap. The children selling peanut M&Ms to support their charity basketball teams never fail to encircle my seat...
Many people assume that Marceau physically cannot speak; that he is deaf or mute and that his profession was a product of this condition. But offstage, he most certainly speaks—at length. As he himself has famously said, “Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.” In a question-and-answer session on Sept. 29, Marceau shared a great deal of advice and wisdom with students and performers of the ART and of the Harvard community...