Tag: Marx Brothers

• I’ve Loved Working With My Film-Making “Idols”

  Man, have I been lucky! Not only did I get to have a “Hollywood career”, that career allowed me to work with people whose film work I adored. It’s a stone cold fact: I’ve loved working with my film making idols! Looking back at my TV-film writing-producing career, the fact that I had a career…

  A L Katz

  August 10, 2022

  Culture, Movie Reviews, Showbiz Stories

  Bordello Of Blood, Buck Henry, EC Comics, Gilbert Adler, Joel Silver, Mad Magazine, Marx Brothers, Meatloaf, Robert Zemeckis, Tales From The Crypt, Tom Hanks, Vassar College, William Gaines

• Groucho Marx Inspires Me: An Ode To Groucho

  Apropos of nothing, as I sat down to work this morning, a song popped into my head: Groucho Marx singing “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It” in the movie “Horse Feathers“. That song inspires me especially in these here times. How can it not? In fact, Groucho Marx inspires me. He always has. I wonder…

  A L Katz

  August 1, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, Culture, Movie Reviews, Showbiz Stories

  Baltimore, Chico Marx, Duck Soup, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Horse Feathers, Marx Brothers, Monkey Business, Muhammed Ali, Speakeasy, Swordfish, The Coconuts, Tsunami, WJZ TV

• There’s No Such Thing As “Alternative Reality” – There’s ONLY Reality & Those Who Refuse To Live In It

  Republicans are like the Calvin character in Bill Watterson’s brilliant comic strip “Calvin & Hobbes” – except without any of the charm, innocence, humor or likeability. They’re the version that plays “Calvinball” the game where Calvin makes up all the rules as the game goes along. Perversely, it’s almost like Watterson anticipated Donald Trump –…

  A L Katz

  February 20, 2022

  Corruption, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  Calviinball, Calvin And Hobbes, Chico Marx, Crypt Keeper, Donald Trump, E Pluriubus Unum, George Orwell, Kellyanne Conway, Marx Brothers, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Tales From The Crypt, Who're You gonna Believe?

• “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It!”

  We all have a special song. Okay, we all have lots of special songs but there’s one in particular that, as you go through life, it never stops being deeply relevant. It’s the one that pops into your head with remarkable regularity because it applies in so many ways to so many things. This is…

  A L Katz

  July 20, 2021

  Branding, Culture, Earworms Worth Having, False Patriotism, Movie Reviews, Music & Culture, Showbiz Stories

  Duck Soup, Groucho Marx, Horse Feathers, Huxley College, Marx Brothers, Quincy Adams Wagstaff