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Google.
Harpo Marx played the harp.
Chico Marx played the piano.
What instrument did Groucho play?
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DarthDem
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mercuryblues
(16,579 posts)guitar
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ProfessorGAC
(77,743 posts)...in Go West.
Not sure he played in any other movie. Perhaps, but I only remember Go West.
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larwdem
(920 posts)he played jaw bone harp
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consider_this
(2,847 posts)totally spitballing.
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uriel1972
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Mister Ed
(7,020 posts)He owned a very nice pair of Gibson L5 guitars. Beautiful instruments. He's seen playing one of them in the canoe scene in Horse Feathers, but the one that he throws into the water is an inexpensive substitute.
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(He never played guitar very well, but he did play it)
ProfessorGAC
(77,743 posts)I only remember the guitar in Go West.
Thanks for the reminder!
Mister Ed
(7,020 posts)And for bonus points: how about, say, Elvis Costello's?
consider_this
(2,847 posts)I think it was Reginald somethingorother
TexasBushwhacker
(21,361 posts)DarthDem
(5,476 posts)Declan McManus.
TexasBushwhacker
(21,361 posts)DarthDem
(5,476 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Reginald Dwight
and
Declan Patrick McManus
TexasBushwhacker
(21,361 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,361 posts)DarthDem
(5,476 posts)I actually have never seen it. 
TexasBushwhacker
(21,361 posts)Rocky Horror was an offbeat musical.
DarthDem
(5,476 posts)I only know what I've heard and read about RHPS so I wasn't sure how to describe it. 
I did think it had a narrator, though, and JL (very talented guy) seemed to fit the time frame. Hmm.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I remember Laroquette's four stages of an actor's career:
"John Who?"
"Get me John Laroquette!"
"Get me a young John Laroquette!"
"John Who?"
TexasBushwhacker
(21,361 posts)He didn't have to travel too far for the gig.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)TexasBushwhacker
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(33,801 posts)(Hint: Something he was supposed to do, but didn't)
VOX
(22,976 posts)His fatal foul-up came when he neglected to pre-medicate with antibiotics prior to a dental appointment. Bacteria and subsequent infection went to his heart, then his entire system was overtaken by sepsis.
Darin’s death stuck in my head as I had a cousin who shared the same fate.
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Wolf Frankula
(3,859 posts)Where was Donald tRump born?
Wolf
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(33,801 posts)Wasn't he born in Queens, NY?
Wolf Frankula
(3,859 posts)Anybody who says he wasn't born in New York City is wrong. Of course no. 45 may not be the original Donald tRump.
Wolf
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Boomerproud
(9,434 posts)nt
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Mendocino
(8,627 posts)Mendocino
(8,627 posts)to reach the rank of brigadier general?
lastlib
(28,904 posts)I have a memory that he was a B-52 pilot. Air Force Reserves?
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)marijuana?
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)(Hint: It took place on stage)
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)for attempting to interrupt his set??? (GOD I'M OLD AND I WASN'T EVEN THERE!)
red dog 1
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(33,801 posts)(Hint: it was a slasher movie)
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)north to western Sonoma County?
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(33,801 posts)Mendocino
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Tikki
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jmowreader
(53,581 posts)...because one of the most important synth bands is named Powerplant, but in German?
Tikki
(15,303 posts)The German word for Powerplant is Kraftwerk. 
Tikki
jmowreader
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LeftInTX
(35,066 posts)(Although they just called it lung cancer back then)
jmowreader
(53,581 posts)Hint: He had to go to Mexico to get it.
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(53,581 posts)red dog 1
(33,801 posts)"He's a Rebel" was her first time singing lead on a Phil Spector recording.
She sang over a Phil Spector group's recording of the song by The Blossoms"
However, "The Crystals" were credited with it.
The "ghost" release of the song came as a complete surprise to The Crystals, who were an experienced and well-traveled girl harmony group in their own right.
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(33,801 posts)He died about 5 months short of his 22nd birthday
Harker
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(33,801 posts)(give or take 5 years)
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)She died a few days short of her 88th birthday.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Read about her in grade school, and I was in junior high (middle school whatever) when she died. From Tuscumbia, Alabama.
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(33,801 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,859 posts)Leonard Slye, (his real name) was 87.
Wolf
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)and afterwards became a matinee idol.
You're right, Wolf, he was 87 when he died.
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)(He played piano, organ and harmonica and didn't do psychedelic drugs)
pfitz59
(13,062 posts)Pig Pen
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(33,801 posts)Are we playing "Jeopardy"?
(Just kidding) 
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(33,801 posts)Questions: who do you consider part of GD (Bralove, Hunter?) and what do you mean by into (youth use doesn't always translate to adulthood, Bob, Donna?)
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)I meant which member of the original band...not the band it morphed into.
By "into" I meant "doing psychedelic drugs like acid on a regular basis".
Pigpen preferred his Southern Comfort to drugs.
quaint
(5,112 posts)The thought blowing through my head...pot is psychedelic...so probably nobody never wasn't. 
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)and other drugs on a regular basis, apart from pot.
Pigpen may have smoked a little weed, especially when they were The Warlocks, but he was never into the heavier psychedelics....He did a lot of alcohol instead, especially Southern Comfort, which he turned Janis Joplin on to.
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(33,801 posts)or, his son, who wrote the theme song, which later became the theme for MASH the TV show, for which he got paid royalties every single time the show was run.
Brother Buzz
(40,684 posts)And I guess he was lucky for getting credit for co-writing the song because the lyrics were infrequently, or if ever, heard on the TV series. I wonder if the serious jingle was made when the song charted.
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(33,801 posts)at the 72nd Street subway station.
Who was that musician?
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(33,801 posts)trackfan
(3,650 posts)and Knucklehead Smith?
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(33,801 posts)You got 'em both
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(33,801 posts)pfitz59
(13,062 posts)he was in it
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(33,801 posts)But James L. Brooks directed it.
(Hint: The last movie Harold Ramis directed was in 2009.
He wrote, produced & directed it).
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)(extra points for names of his wives)
pfitz59
(13,062 posts)His first wife. Then Ava Gardner, then Mia Farrow and finally Barbara Marx?
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(His was married to his first wife, Nancy Barbato, from 1939 to 1951)
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(33,801 posts)Mendocino
(8,627 posts)Joni Mitchell contracted it during the same epidemic.
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(33,801 posts)Mendocino
(8,627 posts)had problems with her hands after polio. She developed alternative tunings to compensate.
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(33,801 posts)She dated him for weeks before she knew who he was (He told her his name was Slim)
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(33,801 posts)(Truly great song)
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(33,801 posts)Another question: Which character is Dom DeLuise's son?
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(33,801 posts)What name was he known by?
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(33,801 posts)role in what would become "All in the Family"?
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(33,801 posts)Have you ever seen any episodes of Bosom Buddies?
(I loved that show)
trackfan
(3,650 posts)red dog 1
(33,801 posts)(Tom Hanks' character fell in love with Donna Dixon)
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(33,801 posts)pfitz59
(13,062 posts)he was the gay one
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Alacritous Crier
(4,554 posts)I think.
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(33,801 posts)Very funny movie, imo.
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(33,801 posts)For extra points, what was the name of the high school?
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(33,801 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)One is the daughter of a very beautiful actress from the 40s and 50s, who is herself an actress. The other is the sister of a superstar director who directed an incredible worldwide box office smash before the year 2000. The ex-husband is a director.
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(33,801 posts)NoPasaran
(17,317 posts)He and the famous aviator Wiley Post crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.
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(33,801 posts)Mendocino
(8,627 posts)Steve wanted top billing.
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(33,801 posts)Harker
(18,350 posts)Harker
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(33,801 posts)(He played trombone)
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(33,801 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,859 posts)Wolf
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(33,801 posts)(By using a search engine)
I just meant that it was not an easy question to answer.
Wolf Frankula
(3,859 posts)Wolf
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(33,801 posts)civil rights leaders who organized the 1963 March on Washington?
[They were known as the "Big Six"]
electric_blue68
(28,074 posts)Bayrand Rustin
Josea ______?
Ralph Abernathy?
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)(Ralph Abernathy and Hosea Williams weren't)
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(33,801 posts)Harker
(18,350 posts)Yep... Buddy Holly and Fawlty Towers, Red.
red dog 1
(33,801 posts)(I don't get it)
Harker
(18,350 posts)Torquay was the setting, and I was born Feb. 9, 1959, a big Buddy Holly fan.
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(33,801 posts)Mendocino
(8,627 posts)Bryan Cranston guest starred in an episode.
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(18,350 posts)far-fetched.
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(33,801 posts)Harker
(18,350 posts)Jazz pianist! Just remembered.
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(33,801 posts)Harker
(18,350 posts)I think "Play Misty for Me" and "In the line of Fire."
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(18,350 posts)of aircraft, and who was piloting it?
Mendocino
(8,627 posts)Robert Peterson...?
Harker
(18,350 posts)The Bonanza was nicknamed "the doctor killer" because many wealthy professionals starting out as aviators found themselves outmatched by their complexities.
Good work, Mendocino.
Mendocino
(8,627 posts)for the V shaped tail, though different variants had T tails.
Harker
(18,350 posts)I was an occasional passenger as a young lad.
I didn't know that there was a tee tail!
Mendocino
(8,627 posts)I flew in a DHC-2 Beaver on some fly-in trips in Canada. Once the pilot needed to take a leak, in a coffee can. He let me take the yoke. The Beavers yoke could flip from left to right.
Harker
(18,350 posts)I recall being told, "there's nothing you can do that I can't undo", as I was allowed to control planes in flight.
Long ago.
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(33,801 posts)cousins whose main functions were to accompany, protect and serve Elvis?
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(8,627 posts)born in 1923, known as Mr. Skin, played for what rock band?
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