As the economy crumbles all around us, Depression-era nostalgia is in the air. One of this summer’s highlights for me was spending a gorgeous August evening watching a free screening of Duck Soup on a boat docked on the Hudson, courtesy of Cinebeasts. (This cool little collective had teamed up with the Lilac Preservation Project to raise funds to restore the good ship Lilac, built the same year the Marx Brothers classic hit screens.)
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| — | “Clowning like it’s 1933,” via The House Next Door |
