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Forum - Zeppo"Why A Duck?" @ marx-brothers.org |
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roger the saurus
Big Cheese Posts: 18
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posted 25 January 2003 08:34 PM
This forum appears to have become Zeppo. It has less and less to say every time and I think it's about to go into business as an agent. What do you think? |
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Tami-o
Big Cheese Posts: 29
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posted 28 March 2003 07:38 PM
I agree. I have not been on this site in quite a while. The last time I posted was regarding the new Groucho biography. I was looking for feedback, but no one replied. Oh well and hail Freedonia! |
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roger the saurus
Big Cheese Posts: 18
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posted 28 March 2003 07:53 PM
I'm sorry to hear no one replied. I don't recall the question. Could you repeat it and I'll reply even if I don't know what I'm talking about. On second thoughts better change "even if " for "especially if". |
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Chicolini
Cabinet Minister Posts: 2
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posted 26 March 2005 11:53 PM
I would never be offensive of Zeppo's memory. but I want to bring some clarity to an image of him. From what I've read, Zep was a brilliant man, very funny, wrote much of the gag material the guys put into the shows (Paramount and stage). But further research shows him to have been a slick dealer, a man who walked a fine line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. I take it he dealt a great deal with underworld figures - purely in business, not crime - and was quite bitter about any criticism pointed in his direction. The Marx Borthers Scrapbook reveals an embittered old man who others, and here I reference Susan Marx, held at an arm's length. So who was Zeppo? How did he become this man? I'd like to think I could warm up wonderfully to Chico, Harpo, Gummo, and possibly Groucho. But Zeppo? This seems a stretch across a gulf of bitterness. Can anyone reflect on this? ------------------
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marx fan
Cabinet Minister Posts: 2
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posted 19 June 2005 07:58 AM
"according to his brothers, zeppo was the funniest of them all" -- cant remember, i read it somewhere. |
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