"He was back stage kissing one of the girls in the show when his wife walked in," said Bob Marx, son of Gummo. His nephews still tell tales of his pursuit of showgirls. Along with their eldest brother, Chico, they golfed, played cards and enjoyed the sun - Harpo often in the nude.Ĭhico, the only brother who didn't own a desert home, was the group's womanizer. Groucho, Harpo, Gummo and Zeppo Marx all had homes at Tamarisk. act, launched with their well-known stage names 100 years ago this spring, it's hard to believe the leering, acerbic Groucho and his siblings led relatively normal, domestic lives in Rancho Mirage from the 1940s through the 1970s. Looking back at the zany, anarchic Marx Bros. It’s a notion that even Groucho Marx would’ve found absurd.Watch Video: VIDEO: Bill Marx talks about his comedyĪ Rancho Mirage resident recalled driving down Palmdale Road near Tamarisk Country Club in the 1960s and seeing the one, the only Groucho Marx on a bicycle. Firefly no longer seems like an alien political figure. Because of Trump’s ascension, however, Rufus T. It’s reminiscent of a memorable line from Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the DNC: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” Before this election, Duck Soup resonated in the United States through the ways it lampooned concepts like nationalism and political decorum. The film imagines a world where an inexperienced and indecorous leader plunges his country into war partly because of some mild insults he’s unable to move past. More than 80 years later, Duck Soup retains its transgressive spirit. Their outsized, deeply rooted personas render them seemingly incapable of restraining their destructive impulses. Whether it’s slapping an ambassador or berating the parents of a fallen soldier, they consistently favor entrenchment over contrition, even when presented with opportunities to right the course.
But the most obvious overlap between Trump and Firefly comes from their pathological compulsion to belittle any perceived rivals and then refuse to apologize or back down.
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