Animal Crackers

George Kaufman and I wrote a lot of funny lines for Groucho, some of which he occasionally used... but it was Groucho who by his innate sense of timing and his…

Groucho Marx is the only actor I ever allowed to ad-lib in a show I wrote. That was because I couldn't stop him.

Groucho appeals on so many levels at once that you could go nuts trying to figure out whether it's the funny movement, the incomparable tone of voice, what he …

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional…

Another theme of the Wake that helps in the understanding of the paradoxical shift from cliche to archetype is 'pastimes are past times'. The dominant technolo…