posted 08-19-2002 03:33 PM         

I have been a HUGE Marx Brothers fan since High School. Groucho was one of our lifetime's true comic geniuses.

My grandfather once told me the story of how he and a few of his college buddies was supposed to go to a college football game in 1928 (or 1929, I don't remember)in Chicago. The game got rained out, so they went to a local theater to see the Marx Brothers perform the stage version of "The Coconuts".

During one of the scenes that featured non-Marx Brother characters (perhaps a mushy love scene), Groucho came out on stage, turned to the audience and said (as only he could), "See, I told you ya' shoudda gone to the football game!".

His passing was sad, but even sadder perhaps was his declining mental and physical health in the later years.

He did a double album (rememebr those?) called "An Evening With Groucho", recoded at Carnegie Hall. I recommend it. There's a young pianist called Marvin Hamlisch featured on it. A few years after the album was released he hit it big with music from "The Sting".

Groucho haunts me today, everytime I post on this site...
"I'd never join a club that would have me as a member!"

Kevin

posted 08-19-2002 11:19 PM         

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