My pal Steve Stoliar did something that many of us envy…something none of us will ever be able to do. He was Groucho Marx's secretary for the last few years of that great comedian's life. You may have heard of the controversial woman, Erin Fleming, who more or less ran Groucho's life at the time. "Controversial" is, in this case, a nice way of putting it.
Steve was right there in the middle of it all, amassing a stockpile of anecdotes, observations, Groucho quotes, tales of meeting Groucho's friends, stories of the oft-unstable Ms. Fleming, etc. A few years ago, he crammed as many of them as he could into a book I've recommended here before…a book I was even recommending before Steve Stoliar became my pal, Steve Stoliar. It's called Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House and if you haven't read it, you should. By an amazing coincidence, I happen to have an Amazon link right here.
It is, as they say, soon to be a major motion picture. Even as I type that, I find myself wondering why no book or play is ever soon to be a minor motion picture. But any film made from Steve's book will be major so we don't need to ponder that now.
In the meantime, Steve goes about giving talks about his great experience and he even has some amazing, available-nowhere-else films to accompany his presentation. Wanna go see him? Well, if there's some facility in your area that books guest lecturers, get them to watch this promotional video and then book Steve…