What seems to excite me about this is that Harpo wants to see his inner lunacy rendered outward to become the norm.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 14, 2009.
It’s always tough to shine in the shadow of your siblings, especially if your last name happens to be Marx. Harpo Marx rarely uttered a word, but his rubber-band limbs and signature harp spoke volumes. Poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum shares his contagious enthusiasm for the silent hilarity of the mostly mute Marx brother in this one-of-a-kind lecture, which he describes as “a loving annotation, a midrash of Harpo.”
Above: Photograph of Harpo Marx in the 1935 film A Night at the Opera.
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