SXSW Comedy Review: Cavett on Comedy With Dave Hill

Dick Cavett's fave talk-show moments and friendship with Ali

"...Dick Cavett was friends with Groucho Marx, frenemies with Norman Mailer, confidant of Bette Davis,..."

March 12, 2018 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Comedy: Your 2018 Lineup

March mirth blows in with Bloom, Offerman, Gaffigan, & Cavett

"...Show to his friendships with comedy legends such as Groucho Marx, Joan Rivers, and Woody Allen;..."

Feb. 27, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Council: Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Council blocks vaping, punts AFD overtime, and commissions students

"...And so on. There were echoes of the Groucho Marx Principle – “I wouldn’t join any club that..."

May 15, 2017 News Post by Michael King

God and Comedy

Screenwriter Michael Zagst chooses laughter with Divine Access

"...much for the privilege of living here. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, I have nothing but respect for Austin –..."

May 13, 2016 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Fun With "M.O.P.Z." at 2am

Todd Rohal puts laughs on fast-forward with new Adult Swim special

"...taste for the grotesque and the visual eye of Groucho Marx, as his Sundance-award winning “Rat Pack Rat” and..."

April 12, 2016 Screens Post by Sean L. Malin

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...of LSD. To research his role in the film, Groucho Marx tried some LSD with friend Paul Krassner...."

March 20, 2015 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

You Oughta See the Pictures

Hollywood forever: New film books reviewed

"...the old guard drank convivially with the upstarts, and Groucho Marx and Huey Newton both tried to get fresh..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Screens Feature

Schmaltz

Julia Hungerford drums up business at her Jewish, vegetarian sandwich trailer

"...tradition of being named after famous people, include a Groucho Marx Mushroom Melt featuring cremini and white mushrooms ($8);..."

March 22, 2013 Food Review by Melanie Haupt

DVD Watch

Olive Films collects three of Otto Preminger's last films

"...yet as a comedy Skidoo feels oddly mirthless. Even Groucho Marx in his final screen appearance is oddly docile..."

Nov. 13, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everything Went Black: Boo! Scary!

Whatever happened to the Transylvania Twist?

"...home (mom in a witch costume, dad in a Groucho Marx outfit) while their monster mag-addled only child ran..."

Oct. 4, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...salesman, Tom Jones worked in a glove factory, and Groucho Marx kept Gilbert and Sullivan in his car's glove..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

From Circus to Cocktails

Two nights, two very different shows from CircX and friends

"...see very different performances. Ryan (who does a mean Groucho Marx) said, "We can't do fire on Saturday, so..."

July 9, 2011 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Sinatra loved electric trains, right-handed products kill left-handed people, etc.

"...Groucho Marx did acid once. He was researching his role..."

May 6, 2011 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Letters at 3AM: Dead and Alive on the Fourth of July

A eulogy spoken over the coffin of our empire

"...Michel Foucault is dead. Groucho Marx is not...."

July 2, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Fantastic Fest: Paramount Premieres

George Romero and John C. Reilly takes the stage as part of FF's four premieres in three nights

"...this distinguished institution of moviedom heard laughs like this, Groucho Marx was playing with an invisible mirror. The Q&A..."

Sept. 27, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Live to Tell

Madonna Live Shot, Houston's Minute Maid Park, 11.16.2008

"...moans Margaret Dumont. If I were any closer, cracks Groucho Marx, I’d be in back of you…...."

Nov. 17, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Fun Fun Fun Fest Interviews: Saturday

Move over, Mr. Smarty Pants

"...United States. Other famous cynics include Henry David Thoreau, Groucho Marx, and Wesley Snipes...."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Feature by Michael Jastroch

I Defy You, Ira Glass

"...any given circumstance. In the words of the immortal Groucho Marx (who, I don't know if I've mentioned yet,..."

Oct. 16, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Frankincense, adverbs, and porn, oh my!

"...Groucho Marx was shown his obituary while visiting the offices..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

A Little Light Music

Branagh's a hambone, and he's better at comedy

"...funny. Nathan Lane plays Costard the clown as if Groucho Marx took a wrong right turn into Shakespearia, and..."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Building Buzz, One 'Bag' at a Time

The Duplass Brothers buck New York and Los Angeles to premiere 'Baghead' here in the town where they started it all

"...Which is entirely understandable. To paraphrase Groucho Marx: Art is art! ... But then again, money..."

June 6, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Summer Reading

"...develop and surprise. Taut little sentences tumble forward like Groucho Marx free-associating an assault on Ernest Hemingway (or Raymond..."

June 9, 2006 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons

La Bête Humaine

Jean Renoir shot it in 1938, just as Hitler's troops were occupying the Sudetenland and Neville Chamberlain and his band of appeasers were bending Europe's back to the whims of the Third Reich. So, you'll forgive him for making such a dark picture.

"...virtues of this verb versus that. It's like watching Groucho Marx paint on his moustache. Also Out Now..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

TV Eye

Kinky Friedman, 'The West Wing,' and 'Commander in Chief'

"..."a unique cross between Don Quixote, Lenny Bruce and Groucho Marx" and says that Go Kinky will potentially follow..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

"...Betsy Drake, Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Mickey Hargitay and Groucho Marx. This Frank Tashlin double bill is a great..."

May 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What's In Store

The city's self-storage business is changing as corporate giants push mom and pop operations aside.

"...you won't see: ROB D'AMICO, home-brewers kit, box of Groucho Marx glasses with fuzzy eyebrows, leaky blender...."

Sept. 1, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Land of the Freberg

Interview with radio-comedy pioneer Stan Freberg

"...LP to CD, is growing daily, with everyone from Groucho Marx and Ernie Kovacs to Bill Hicks, Chris Rock,..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

The Man With Susan's Plan

"...but it featured all these terrific actors: Gloria Swanson, Groucho Marx, Abbott and Costello, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Tony..."

June 25, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Romance on the High Seas

"...the big screen. Watching Romance opened my eyes. As Groucho Marx once said, "I knew Doris Day before she..."

April 23, 1999 Screens Feature

Scanlines

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

"...Mansfield, Tony Randall, Mickey Hargitay, Joan Blondell, Henry Jones, Groucho Marx..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

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