The Music of the Marx Brothers: A Bio-Discography of the Works of Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo, and Zeppo Marx
Right Truth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Patient Evil An R.J. Godlewski and Right Truth Blog Exclusive eBook PART II Chapter Sixty November, 20xx Pentagon Annex Washington, D.C. For six months, Jonas Prinkler had been kept in solitary. Well, as solitary as he could withstand. Meredith visited...
Spectacular Attractions (Free subscription) | yesterday
Deluge was the debut feature film by a 23 year-old with the enviable name of Felix E. Feist. Sounds like a Marx Brothers pseudonym, but it’s the real name of the son of an MGM sales manager, who had an almost-there career in movies until he switched to TV production in the 50s. Deluge was [...]
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | yesterday
What was the name of the two-piece swimsuit advertised in 1946 as the “world’s smallest”—just three weeks before the bikini was introduced as “smaller than the smallest”? The Atome. French fashion designer Jacques Heim named it after the atom, the smallest known particle of matter. But French engineer Louis Reard quickly one-upped him, naming his skimpier suit the...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here are the first of two offerings of some current inspirations for cheer. If you've been laid off, Madeoff-ed, or you just plain need a lift during a tough holiday season, check these out.
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Btms^ for Monday November 23. There are just 38 days left in 2009. Liquor Barns will be open Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday November 25 till 10 p.m., and on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Drink 4cast 4 2day: Harp Lager 2 honor Harpo Marx, the “silent partner” in the Marx Brothers movies, [...]
(Roughly) Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the ever-illuminating Overthinking It and contributor Mark Lee: The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs Many rock purists and music snobs (myself included) often lament the quality of most modern pop/rock music. “Music these days is so trite and derivative,” they say. “It’s just been downhill since the 60’s [...]
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I had intended to write a piece about crooner Jack Jones, who has had — and continues to have — a long and successful career as a jazz and pop singer. But I decided to save that for another day, and instead tell the story of his talented dad, Allan Jones, who paved the way [...]
My Green Meadows (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Harpo Marx via last.fm A new study sheds light on the origins of language // According to new research funded by the national Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), your ability to make sense of Groucho’s words and Harpo’s pantomines in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions in your brain. Researchers [...]
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
After press coverage earlier this year in The New York Times and Hollywood Reporter, Asian-backed investment firm L’Ambassador International Media & Entertainment has agreed to provide financing for the comedy. According to Bollywood Boys writer/director, James L. Bills, “David and Corin are Abbot and Costello, Lucy and Ethel and at least three of the Marx Brothers. [...]
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Marx Brothers' 1933 classic about war and nationalism comes to the Charles A Marx Brothers revival has long been overdue. Let's hope the Charles' presentation of their masterpiece "Duck Soup" helps kicks one off. It's a good thing that the Charles plays old movies more than once a week. The punning effrontery of Groucho and the dialect comedy of Chico come so fast and mock-furious that even...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) : Dandridge was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. ... Dandridge's first on-screen appearance was a bit part in a 1935 Our Gang short. In 1937 she appeared in the Marx Brothers feature A Day at the Races . ... In 1954, director and writer Otto Preminger cast Dandridge, along with Harry...
Three Silly Chicks (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
We found Aaron Reynolds and Neil Numberman buzzing around a manure pile and thought we should ask them some questions. Aaron is a human, not a bug, but he often writes about bugs. He is the author of Chicks and Salsa (one of our all time favorite chick books!) , Superhero School, Buffalo Wings, and, of course, the Joey Fly, Private Eye graphic novels. Visit him at his website at http://aaron-reynolds.com/...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Earlier this evening I spoke at NYU on a panel with Elan Journo. I had just started explaining the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism when a young man in the middle of the audience stood up and started yelling and refused to be quiet. When the security guards went...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
War! Politics! Insults! Absurdity! The greatest comedy group of all time makes their funniest movie.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The Devil's Tickets A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age By Gary M. Pomerantz (Crown; 320 pages; $26) Nothing like a murder to sex up the topic of bridge, a card game that many of us associate with dreary suburban evenings with four couples...
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