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    Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
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    Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
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    Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made

    By Roy Blount, Jr.

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    Bestselling author Roy Blount Jr. tells the story of theclassic Marx Brothers wartime satire Duck Soup. As always, Blount isinformed yet informal, tongue-in-cheek yet tempered, providing the perfectvoice to recount the irreverent antics of Harpo, Chico, Groucho, and Zeppo. Readers of HarpoSpeaks, The Essential Groucho,and Monkey Business and fans of Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera and the Marx Brothers’ other timelesscomedies—as well as all fans of Blount’s witty and insightful books like Alphabet Juice and Feet on the Street and listeners to NPR’s weekly news quiz, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me—will becaptivated by the lyrical humorist’s compelling, behind-the-scenes storytellingof the 1933 classic film.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 28, 2010
    ISBN9780062009760
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    Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
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    Roy Blount, Jr.

    Humorist, sportswriter, poet, performer, lecturer, dramatist, and author of seventeen books, Roy Blount Jr.’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and National Geographic. His work has also been anthologized in such collections as The Best of Modern Humor and The Ultimate Baseball Book. He lives in western Massachusetts and New York City.

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    • 4/5
      If you ever wanted to sit in a room and watch a movie with Roy Blount, Jr., here's your chance. "Hail, Hail, Euphoria" reads like a DVD commentary track, closely following along with the Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup." Blount's insights, opinions and quips about the movie do a great job of exploring what makes "Duck Soup" a masterpiece -- not just the best Marx Brothers movie, but one of the all-time great war films. I thought I knew a lot about the Marx Brothers, but I learned even more from Blount's commentary, and I came away admiring and appreciating director Leo McCarey's contributions to the film in a way that never occurred to me before. The best praise I can offer is that the minute I finished reading "Hail, Hail," I dug out my DVD copy of "Duck Soup" and had a wonderful screening with Blount's insights still fresh in my head.

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    • 4/5
      A funny meandering analysis of one of the greatest war movies ever made.