Son Of Groucho
Arthur Marx
Read September 2008
Copy purchased from some library used book sale somewhere sometime
Essay written Sunday, October 19th, 2008
I'm thinking maybe it was a Saint Paul library book sale, and that it was the Highland Park branch. But don't hold me to that. It was several years ago at any rate.
Pretty good, about what you'd expect. Living life in the shadow of Groucho Marx must have been quite a difficult thing. Still he did pretty well for himself. Kind of sad that the man wrote so many books about his father, despite his trying so hard to distance himself from him. But a man has to pay the bills, I guess.
The man, Arthur, Son of Groucho, fell in love with his sister-in-law and divorced his wife for her. This was the wife of his wife's brother. So his kids from his first marriage were his second wife's niece and nephew. The math gets complicated fast.
So the answer to the trivia question "What do Groucho Marx's son and New Jersey Devils goaltending legend Martin Brodeur have in common?" is "They both had affairs with and later married their sisters-in-law."
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