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Then Dennis Wilson came in from The Beach Boys and he said, "Hey, Mr. Marx. It's an honor to meet you." Groucho looked at him, and obviously didn't know who he was and said," Well, it oughta be."
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/08/an-interview-with-drew-friedman.html
Excellent article ,but this is the only BB reference
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The only two entertainment acts I've been obsessed about is the Beach Boys and the Marx Brothers! This makes my day, as the two worlds collide.
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"Over the years, I've been accused of not supporting our new music from this era (67-73) and just wanting to play our hits. That's complete b.s......I was also, as the front man, the one promoting these songs onstage and have the scars to show for it."
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Karen Lamm once showed me some photos of a dinner party she attended at Groucho's home...she said it was a weekly thing for awhile. I would imagine Dennis might have gone there with her.
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Dennis absolutely
loved
the old Borscht Belt comedians, and never failed to hang out at the Stage Door Deli whenever we were in New York. We'd go in late in the night and stay for
hours
, and it was straight out of Woody Allen's "Broadway Danny Rose". There would be a huge table full of all the old faces from Ed Sullivan, and Dennis would usually wind up either kibitzing with them, or being the butt of their jokes! I remember several bouts with Jack E. Leonard, (the original Don Rickles), with the two of them really going at it. Dennis always got the short end though, but would walk out just beaming...
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Quote from: Ed Roach on August 09, 2010, 10:56:43 AM
Dennis absolutely
loved
the old Borscht Belt comedians, and never failed to hang out at the Stage Door Deli whenever we were in New York. We'd go in late in the night and stay for
hours
, and it was straight out of Woody Allen's "Broadway Danny Rose". There would be a huge table full of all the old faces from Ed Sullivan, and Dennis would usually wind up either kibitzing with them, or being the butt of their jokes! I remember several bouts with Jack E. Leonard, (the original Don Rickles), with the two of them really going at it. Dennis always got the short end though, but would walk out just beaming...
Man that's a cool anecdote...thanks Ed!
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Which would be better ,meeting Groucho ,or having dinner with Karen Lamm every week?
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Thanks, Jon; it was great to have this memory pop up, although I have thought about it before, especially whenever I've caught B'way Danny Rose. I was also surprised to see that Jack E. died in 1973, although we were still going there, at least as late as the week of the Radio City Music Hall gigs. In fact, we took Christine there with us in the middle of the night during that week. As I said, sometimes he'd interupt them, almost heckling them, just to get them to unleash on him. I remember Jack E. Leonard one time saying something to the effect of, "This place has been going downhill ever since they started letting filthy hippies in!" Sometimes I just
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that they knew who he was, othertimes I think they really felt we were just filthy hippies! (Although, at those prices...)
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Quote from: Ed Roach on August 09, 2010, 10:56:43 AM
Dennis absolutely
loved
the old Borscht Belt comedians, and never failed to hang out at the Stage Door Deli whenever we were in New York. We'd go in late in the night and stay for
hours
, and it was straight out of Woody Allen's "Broadway Danny Rose". There would be a huge table full of all the old faces from Ed Sullivan, and Dennis would usually wind up either kibitzing with them, or being the butt of their jokes! I remember several bouts with Jack E. Leonard, (the original Don Rickles), with the two of them really going at it. Dennis always got the short end though, but would walk out just beaming...
I remember Jack E Leonard from the Ed Sullivan show!
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