The anatomy of Harpo Marx
By: Wayne Koestenbaum
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520269002; 9780520269019
Subjects: Biography; Comedians; Motion picture actors and actresses
Table of contents: title: Early ecstatic emptiness. The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929); title: Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933); title: The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera; title: Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930); title: Later astonishments. Fake dead Jew as cute zoo-idiot: Room service (1938); title: Pass Punchy's humiliated buddy huddle: At the circus (1939); title: Freeze Rusty's anal rage in a cozy void: Go west (1940); title: Lonely wacky's incremental lines of flight: The big store (1941); title: The bubble-blowing demarcator tickles totality: A night in Casablanca (1946); title: Bulge, glaze, pause, shock; or, the bushy-haired ragpicker's burnt offering: Love happy (1950); title: The idiot tumbles back to the beginning of time. The undeliverable ice of pinky's mom-mouth: Horse feathers (1932); title: The kippering, bopping, shushing, bear-hugging, beard-pulling bustle: Monkey business (1931); title: The pretzel glimmer-eye of stuffy's stuttering surge: A day at the races.