"Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx"
Biography looks at Groucho Marx's inner life
by Adam Gopnik
The New Yorker, April 17, 2000
"By now the pundits agree, with slightly Marxian logic, almost everything that we think of as having happened in the sixties actually took place in the seventies, and nothing more surely than the renaissance of the Marx Brothers. They were too violent and acerbic for the flower-power period; W.C. Fields and Lewis Carroll, not Groucho, are the ones who decorate the cover of
'Sgt. Pepper's'...
Groucho's reputation rose even as his spirits sank. In the mid-sixties he went off to London, to have dinner with T.S. Eliot, who had written to him asking for an autographed picture..."
Scene: Picadilly Circus, London, 1966
T.S. Eliot: "When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States his laughter tinkled among the teacups." Groucho Marx: "Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!" T.S.E.: "I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees, and of Priapus in the shrubbery gaping at the lady in the swing." Groucho: "I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall. It's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government. However, I'd give it all up for one erection."
excerpted from: Say the Secret Woid; Win $100.00
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