That's weird - - - I'm watching White Christmas right now with Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye . bookmarked for later
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I would very much like to see some of Groucho Marx's game show tapes, from the early years of American TV. Groucho was the absolute master of the "off-the-cuff-one-liner". It would be nice to think that some of the wit of a comic master was preserved for future generations to marvel at. Why are people like Groucho so rare in this day and age? Has the era of the "Manufactured Star" stifled creative genius? Or were people like Groucho so rare as to be totally unique, one of a kind, never to be repeated?
I don't think that talent is quite as rare as you think....there are a lot of people I know of who do pretty good one-liners. I'm not too shabby at them myself, I tend to respond, though, not come up with stand-alones. Today, though, actors are required to bring a range of emotions to the screen, and be able to memorize lines written by someone else. Ever since that writers' strike from a few years back, there haven't been all that many good writers in Hollywood. And they keep cancelling shows like "Who's Line Is It Anyway" (which was brilliant, BTW...completely unscripted...there were quite a few episodes that I missed a follow-on line because I was laughing so hard).
