Extending the Upper East Side Historic District
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The Marx Brothers would probably find the above quite amusing.
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"You know, funny to opera people is not funny to the Marx Brothers": Woody Allen Rehearses Gianni Schicchi In L.A.
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
On the other hand, characters who covet their adoptive daughters are just fine by opera standards -- nothing particularly wrong about that (only it's Strauss, not Puccini, Woody): He said, “What if we do the Puccini trilogy — it’s three...
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Robert Downey Jr.'s risky role in "Tropic Thunder"
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
When Robert Downey Jr. put on dark make-up for film comedy "Tropic Thunder," the actor ventured into the racially charged territory of blackface, an old showbiz convention that is no laughing matter....
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Humor heads into battle
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
War may be hell, but it's also hilarious in these spoofs that preceded "Tropic Thunder."
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Bruce Ivins - Are We Sure We Got the Whole Team?
The Thunder Run (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Wednesday, August 06, 2008Bruce Ivins - Are We Sure We Got the Whole Team? [Ed Note: This post was originally posted at ]~~~~~Yesterday Richard Spertzel, wrote in the WSJ , where states his claim that Mr. Ivins couldn’t possibly be the anthrax killer, or at least he could not have acted alone. Spertzel states in his case:In short, the potential lethality of anthrax in this case far exceeds that of...
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GOOKIE MEME
Blog d'Elisson (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Every Marx Brothers movie has a scene in which Harpo contorts his features into this classic pose: The Gookie. [Rhymes with “dookie,” not “cookie.”] Based on a real-life person (yclept “Gookie,” of course), the Gookie Face never failed to get a laugh for Harpo, who credited Gookie for inspiring him to become an actor. Back in college, when it seemed as though we were watching a different Marx Brothers...
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Hollywood Comedy Movies - From Charlie Chaplin To Jim Carrie
Article Master (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Comedy movies started long back in the 1900s. The first movie to be produced was by Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope. This could also be considered the first to show the comic aspect of a movie. Comedy films began to appear more during the era of silent films, prior to the 1930s. These comedy movies were originally [...]
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Moriarty Thinks THE MUMMY 3 Is Far More Dead Than Alive!!
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
I think my reaction to this film matches the reactions I’ve read from some people to the PIRATES sequels. I still like those films because I think Verbinski managed to find the energy to every sequence. He gave it all a pulse. They’re inelegantly constructed and unwieldy at times, but they feel alive. The critics of those films called them gaudy and noisy and fake, and watching this film, I know how...
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The pornogrification* of mainstream culture
Slap of the Day (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Apparently, I have no sense of humour. I love the Marx Brothers and Bill Bryson and laugh at all sorts of jokes, but, no, I have no sense of humour. Why? Because I don’t think pole dancing is an ‘empowering’ activity for young women, let alone little girls. Because I think calling a perfume Putain des Palaces is not witty; it’s a cynical marketing ploy on the part of Etat Libre d’Orange (a French perfume...
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Opening Shots: Mefisto In Onyx
Secret Dead Blog (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
"Once. I only went to bed with her once. Friends for eleven years--before and since--but it was just one of those things, just one of those crazy flings: the two of us alone on a New Year's Eve, watching rented Marx Brothers videos so we wouldn't have to go out with a bunch of idiots and make noise and pretend we were having a good time when all we'd be doing was getting drunk, whooping like morons,...
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Marx Brothers Rule
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Uh.... (picks jaw up off floor) from A Day at the Races prev elias12186 has quite the collection of classical and baroque. seen on (and again later)
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first impressions
Law and Letters (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Reason for blog absence: work, Buffy, no desire to write and the feeling I had nothing to say, and spending too much time on the phone this week. Last night I went over to a friend and neighbor's for an outdoor projection of The Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup" on a white wall behind their house. We're talking an old school projector and a brick wall painted white--very classic. We sat on blankets and then...
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Quote of the Day: Groucho Marx (Second)
Blawgletter (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Groucho Marx (1890-1977) as Rufus T. Firefly. Yesterday, Blawgletter quoted at full length a combative letter from Groucho Marx to Warner Brothers. The dispute centered on the studio's belief that an impending Marx Brothers movie, A Night in Casablanca (1946),...
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Clash of the Pochos!
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Listen to this segment | the entire program For over 20 years, the Los Angeles based theater troupe, Culture Clash has been examining the United States on stage, through a uniquely Chicano lens. Formed on Cinco de Mayo in 1984 in San Francisco, Culture Clash originally had 6 members, [...]
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Totally Fuzzy
linkfilter.net - fresh links (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
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