![]() ![]() Pirosh provides the best look at Groucho's comic method in this whole book, in my opinion, and its buried in the middle of an interview. If you ever get the chance to talk to someone in show business, you may realize after a time that most of their gossip and stories are told in the same way as Chandler handles it. Everyone fawns over the "super-celebrity." At one point we get a page describing the gifts Groucho got from all his friends at his birthday party. Groucho goes to about 50 awards ceremonies. Zingers are reproduced over and over again. Names are dropped with alarming frequency. Let me give you a feeling for Chandler's style. Hello, I Must be Going reads remarkably like celebrity gossip, which is interesting in one way, since Groucho Marx was an interesting person, but tedious in another for she lacked the judgment to sum up Groucho or the style to make it interesting the whole way through. ![]() A comic legend beloved and honored by so many, and a deeply flawed human being. Groucho Marx is the focus of Hello, I Must Be Going and what an interesting person he was. Then, with all his delight in improvising and changing, he'd cling to it, because that laugh meant more to him than he knew. It's a good example of what he would do when a thing was set. It was an unpleasant word, like paraplegic or paralysis. Mispronounced a word once, and he got the laugh on it and he never would pronounce it right. ![]()
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