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Zeppo was always overlooked, but, in many ways he was the funniest Marx Brother. In real life, he was absolutely the funniest. He was also by far the best looking.
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The most unfunny Marx brother was Karl or as he was known as Cappy.
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The Marx most unworthy of public attention was Richard.
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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There's a funny scene in Katherine Anne Porter's short story Holiday in which the narrator notes that her wealthy landowner host likes to unwind at night by rereading an old copy of Das Kapital.
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When I worked at the bank, there was one teller who would read Das Kapital on his breaks. He was of Armenian ancestry and one day he noticed a customer's last name meant "son of the Devil" in Armenian. He wondered what this guy's ancestor did to get that name. The next time that customer came in, he asked him if he knew that his name meant "Son of the Devil". I don't remember the customer's reaction.
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Most Armenian surnames, like the word "Armenian", end in "-ian".
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The few Armenian-Americans I've known did not have an '-ian' suffixed surname (like 'Fradon'), possibly through intermarriage with non-Armenians.
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Sometimes they were changed at Ellis Island. Someted the family shortens them. I knew such a family when I was a kid. The suburbs just west of Boston where I lived when I was little have large Armenian-American communities.
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I do recall one Armenian-American young woman I knew in the late 80s who seemed to be part of a cohesive Armenian community, but I do not recall her last name.
Ramona Fradon certainly had Armenian family connections, and talked about some family gatherings.
On a slightly related note, she apparently modeled Java (from Metamorpho) after her own brother.
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I used to have a huuuugge crush on Amy, and saw her perform live at every chance I could (which in the early 90s was quite often).
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"Fradon" is, according to her Wikipedia article, Ramon Fradon's married name. It doesn't list her maiden name.
Another Armenian-American was Arlene Francis, who was born Arlene Francis Kazanjian.
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David Hedison, born Albert David Hedistian Junior, is also Armenian-American. I liked him as Captain Crane on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, but I haven't see the show since I was about 14. I have a feeling it doesn't hold up very well.
Hedison's co-star, Richard Basehart, played Admiral Nelson and was the subject of a crush from Gypsy, one of the robots on MST3K.
Hedison has two daughters, Alexandra and Serena. Alexandra is a former actress turned photographer and filmmaker. She dated Ellen DeGeneres for four years.
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David Hedison was my all-time least-favorite Felix Leiter. In License to Kill, I rooted for the shark.
My favorite Hedison part (not that I ever thought he was a particularly talented actor) was as the politician who courted the youth vote in Wild in the Streets, a paranoid late-60s propaganda piece against lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 (just as the book Logan's Run essentially was).
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Logan Airport in Boston is located in East Boston, right on Boston Harbor. When landing there, it often looks as if you're going to land in the water until the very last second when you see the runway.
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