Marx Brothers

Yea, verily - I'm living in a Marx Brothers movie. Today was a delightfully kaleidoscopic journey into Bizarro-Land, and tomorrow promises to be more of the same. Fun, fun - oh, so much fun. I can hardly wait.

The History of Philosophy

On this date in 1818, older brothers Chico, Groucho, Gummo, Harpo, and zeppo welcome baby Karl in to the world.

Never ever try to fool a cat with mislabelled cat food cans

...who tells you "It's a knock-down drag-out laff riot every single second!" is a liar and has never seen it.) There will also be the Marx Brothers Marathon on January 1st and I am psyched to notice, upon reading the schedule, that they're showing the films in chronological order: Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers...

Die Buchhandlung [9/?]

... another movie tonight? There’s a good one playing, I’ll even buy you dinner if you promise not to make fun of it.” “I thought making fun of your Marx Brothers was a compliment?” “Not the way you do it,” Alfred grinned. As Ludwig finished and set the tools aside, he turned the man in his grasp and pressed him ...

My Little Chickadee (1940)

... now. Fields was probably more famous back then for his vaudeville work and I don't think he created any movies for the ages like his fellow vaudevillians The Marx Brothers did. But this movie is still very much a Mae West movie and I enjoyed it like I do all her work. There are plenty of one-liners ...

Writer's Block: The One Movie Everyone Should See

... version of The Producers, hands-down. "Animal Crackers" is my favorite movie, but it is admittedly an acquired taste, as I didn't quite "get" the Marx Brothers the first couple times I saw them, and the plot and the rest of the actors are horrifically dull. "The Producers" on the other hand, was funny to...

posted one last month (or was it october?)

... Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Night of the Hunter, the Odd Couple I and II, Marx Brothers movies, Ingmar Bergman movies, Hitchcock movies, Dr. Strangelove, the Big Lebowski, Milk, the Reader, Royal ..., Return of the Jedi, Nights of Cabiria, Miller's Crossing, Coen Brothers movies, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the Philadelphia Story, Sunset Boulevard,...

Incoherence American Style

..., incidentally, made her film debut playing Brarrymore's daughter) was another fabulous human being, whose generosity to her colleagues is legendary. The Marx Brothers (each one of them an absolutely adorable person), Buster Keaton, Walter Huston, Lillian Gish, Jean Arthur, Judy Holliday, Jessica Tandy and ...

War Comes to Amsterdam

... Naish, replacing Wallace Beery's Barnacle Bill . Down the street the Regent was headlining the Marx Brothers in The Big Store along with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien in Devil Dogs of... the latest features (they went with the 50 sarong-clad goddesses of love over the Marx Brothers or Bing Crosby). While they sat in the dark, the news flashed across the Associated ...

so. i started with fart. somehow got to nobel prize for writing. went from that to james joyce, to virginia woolf, to modest mouse, to dirty dozen brass band, to the flintstones, to the honeymooners, to this is your life, to dick van dyke, to double act, to abbott and costello, to the marx brothers, to animal crackers, which is what i am eating right now.