Harpo Marx, South Carolinaâs Voting History and Other Letters to the Editor
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To the Editor:
I was pleased to see Jason Zinoman acknowledge âHarpo Speaks!,â by Harpo Marx, as the gold standard of the comedian memoir (Feb. 21). As a teenager in the early â60s, I got my hands on the book and found it to be thoroughly entertaining.
Particularly enjoyable is the chapter about Harpoâs trip to Russia in the fall of 1933. He ended up spending eight weeks there and put on shows that earned him standing ovations. Posters that announced his appearances, written in Cyrillic, spelled his name XAPIIO MAPKC. Harpo had no idea how to pronounce it, so he called himself âExapno Mapcase, the Toast of Moscow.â
Norman Provizer
On Friday, hulu (the television streaming channel) premieres
The United States vs. Billie Holiday, a film by Lee Daniels that stars Andra Day and is based on the book
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari. The early reviews have praised Day’s performance more than the film itself, but we can all make that judgment for ourselves come Friday. If you have any issues receiving access to the film, hulu is available through a free trial.
What I did want to mention is another book that contains some information that may or may not be part of the upcoming movie. This brief, 2001 book of 138 pages is by David Margolick is and is titled
newspaper. yes, i think that adelson s influence is arguably even greater in israel than it is in the united states. i mean, he s revolutionized the media landscape in israel by starting this free newspaper that s very widely considered to be in bibi s pocket. david margolick of vanity fair. a wonderful piece in this issue of vanity fair. quite the issue this month. you ve helped give us two different deep dives. thank you very much. up next, new numbers show president obama s lead still hanging in there in pennsylvania. is it a real battleground state or not? plus, more on the high price the middle class paid during the election is affecting this election. and a new soup of the day, i don t know what it means, but it s herb swiss charred and feta. basically, it looks like beer cheese soup but with a fancy name. don t forget us, you can follow
have such close ties to candidate challenging this nation s number one ally. netanyahu has done what he can to actually put some distance between himself and romney. he suggest the connection s been overstated now, simply saying, i knew him and he knew me, i suppose. a little deeper than that. david is a contributing editor to vanity fair. his article is in the current issue. so much to get into here, david. i want to talk about first, though, the obama/netanyahu relationship. it s never been great. it got really bad in 2011. and then the two of them seemed to come to an almost, well, we might be stuck with each other for a while, so we better smooth things over. is that a fair assessment of where things stand? i think that is. i think it s really kind of like a bad marriage, and they realize that they really have to get along with one another. at least obama has to get along with netanyahu, because netanyahu s going to be around in israeli politics for the foreseeable future.