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Article: SPOTLIGHT NEVER DIMS ON THE MARX BROTHERS.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2000
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MONKEY BUSINESS:
The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers
SIMON LOUVISH
St. Martin's Press, 471 pp. $29.95.
I DON'T CARE to belong to any club that will have me as a member.''
Somehow, that's the only Marx Brothers' wisecrack - Groucho's - that I could dredge from memory before reading Simon Louvish's new book. But memories can be wonderfully refreshed, and splendid treats added, by the array of Marxian lunacies (along with great helpings of vaudeville, movie and broadcast lore) spread out for us by Louvish, probably best known for his biography of W.C. Fields - ``The Man on the Flying Trapeze.''
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