Lighten up!
By Dave
October 22nd, 2008 | Leave a comment
As the shouting of the political season gets louder and shriller, gloomy news of the global economy (not to mention our household economies!) and other downers loom heavy, the late great Groucho Marx has a message for us all: Lighten up.
The Groucho Letters, featured as a “You Must Read This” book on NPR, is published by Simon & Schuster
Says writer Shalom Auslander on NPR radio:
“A letter from Warner Brothers threatening legal action for the Marx Brothers’ use of the name “Casablanca” in the title of their movie was met not with bluster, counterthreats or even a request for discussion, but rather with a letter from Groucho discussing the history of the name “Warner” and the word “brothers.”
“Professionally,” he writes, “we were brothers long before you… what about the Smith Brothers? The Brothers Karamazov? Dan Brothers, an outfielder with Detroit?”
Subsequent letters from the WB lawyers were met with even more flippancy, and eventually they simply stopped writing and gave up the matter. ”
Apparently comedic wit is mightier than the cease and desist demand.
To see (and hear) for yourself, CLICK HERE.
