Groucho Marx News
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President Barack Obama suffers from Groucho Marx syndrome: He favors those in the club he doesn’t belong to. Otherwise how to explain why he is fighting for Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense but didn't for Susan Rice to be secretary of state?
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In “Duck Soup,” Groucho Marx sang: “If any form of pleasure is exhibited,/ Report to me and it will be prohibited.”
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Groucho Marx , one of America’s pre- eminent philosophers, once quipped , “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes.”
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What’s in a name? In 2008, supporters of a state ballot measure convinced a majority of California voters that there was a meaningful difference between extending full domestic partnership rights to gay couples and calling their relationships marriage.
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This wasn’t a great year for new writing in London’s West End theater district.
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As the only woman in her university class in Franco’s Spain, Elena Salgado remembers being singled out by a professor who doubted she could keep up with the male students. After making a point to the class, her professor would turn to her and ask: “And you, do you also understand?”
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King Richard III has 1,171 lines in the drama Shakespeare named for him. Kevin Spacey mangles just about every one of them, beginning with “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York” right through “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” more than three hours later.
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The hero of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” is called “a lump of foul deformity” by his future wife. Rarely has foulness produced so many gallows laughs as it does with Kevin Spacey as the cunning crookback.
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Art Linkletter , the genial radio and television host who spent more than two decades interviewing children and getting them to say “the darndest things,” has died. He was 97.
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Yttrium, Scandium and Dysprosium sound like planets in a sci-fi movie teeming with blue Na’vi.
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