re: Rush Limbaugh pouts about potential black James Bond

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Violin. This was a very common childhood instrument among Jews in that era. Groucho never got good enough at it to perform.

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Guitar. Go watch Horse Feathers(its on Cox Demand -TCM).


Guitar was his lifelong musical pursuit .

You must get ALL of your info from Limbaugh?

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He got into a contract dispute with the studio. He demanded a meeting with the head of the studio. When he was put off in the waiting room in front of the secretary for half an hour he took off his clothes, took out a lighter and said 'I'm going to burn them.'

He was allowed into the office.

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Tell us more about the instrument choices of the Jews.

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I would tell you much about Jewish tradition with instrumentation, Bucky. But there is one problem. You're an a-hole and I don't give a shite.

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I would tell you much about Jewish tradition with instrumentation, Bucky. But there is one problem. You're an a-hole and I don't give a shite.

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Translation: I got nothing.

"All of the boys were encouraged from an early age to play musical instruments. Harpo’s main musical focus was the harp (from which he derived his nickname), Chico was an excellent pianist, and Groucho played the guitar. In 1905, Groucho made his debut as a singer in vaudeville. By 1907 he and Gummo were singing together as part of The Three Nighingales with Mabel O’Donnell. The next year, Harpo became the fourth Nightingale. By 1910, the group expanded to include their mother, Minnie, and their Aunt Hannah; the troupe was renamed The Six Mascots."
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Marx_Brothers.html

Groucho had a musical side as well, singing as a choirboy before evolving into the manager and sharp-witted focal point of the Marx Brothers’ oft-floundering vaudeville act as it zig-zagged haphazardly from New York to Chicago to Kansas City. Somewhere along this long road to stardom Groucho bought a used guitar and learned to play it by ear, just as his more musically accomplished brothers had learned their respective instruments. As the team rose in fame to conquer Broadway in the ’20s and Hollywood soon after, Groucho’s guitar became a source of great personal solace but never a standard part of their act. While his brothers caroused until all hours, Groucho became the antithesis of his stage and screen persona, an introvert who preferred to stay home and read, socialize with intimates, and pick out tunes on his guitar. Indeed, sans his trademark greasepaint moustache, frock coat, and loping gait, Groucho Marx went virtually unrecognized in public during his Hollywood heyday.

The most public showcase of Groucho’s guitar playing is Paramount’s 1932 college-skewering romp Horse Feathers. In a rowboat, Groucho performs the film’s love theme “Everyone Says I Love You” for co-star Thelma Todd on a questionably tuned vintage Gibson L-5. In typical Marxian fashion, when finished he simply flips the instrument (actually a cheap prop stand-in) into the lake. While he’d take fleeting turns on the guitar elsewhere in his film career, Groucho’s performance of “Everyone Says I Love You” remains a favorite among Marx aficionados and has gone on to become variously a beloved staple of home pickers and the inspiration for Woody Allen’s 1996 film musical of the same name.
www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/.../The-Surprisingly-Serious-Tale.aspx

Since we all know that you refuse to ever admit you were wrong I won't expect you to acknowledge this. Just like you couldn't admit the Manchurian Candidate wasn't banned.

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But it allowed them to effectively double Chico's moneymaking ability on the piano.

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:smh: Someone should have told them at some point in their lives, they've made enough money.