Here’s this week’s humorous illustration of Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers. The pronunciation is Chick-O, by the way. He was named because of his chasing the ladies (Chicks) around. Chico laso liked to chase the dice and cards around, too. This being the reason the brothers got together for their last films to help out their brother in a bit of financial distress.

Next week- Back to current celebrities: Keira Knightly.

Sheena Easton was added to the celebrity lineup to draw because I’ve been a fan for such a long time and figured I should. I drew this from a photo from around 1990. It is sans the eye makeup that made her look as most remember her to look like. Nevertheless, I placed her in ’80s clothing. This costume is very much like the outfit she wore for the cover of her album,’Best Kept Secret’. Of course, you all already knew that!
Next week: Sandra pulled the name of Chico (Pronounced- Chick-O) Marx of the Marx Brothers. This’ll be fun!

I first became aware of Jerry Lewis when local station Channel 9 would play Lewis and Martin’s films when I was about 8 in the early ’70s. I got to see more when CBS would play more Martin and Lewis films at 11:30pm. It made me tired at school, but what an education I got! I learned about humor, slapstick, singing and great morals and values that I worked on then and still do today to emulate.

This week’s popular
celebrity is actor Jack
Black. I’m surprised how
little there is to know
about this person. He
basically didn’t do well in
school, dropped out of
college and started acting.
Over the last few years
he’s become a huge success.

Next week - Back to
humor - It’ll be
Jerry Lewis.

This week’s subject is another humorous writer, Groucho Marx. Most know him for his movies or ‘You Bet Your Life’. He was also one heck of a writer. If you ever find ‘Groucho and Me’, ‘Tales of a Mangy Lover’ or ‘The Groucho Letters’, read ‘em and weep - with laughter!

Groucho has been the celebrity that I most admire. His cunning wit and quick delivery are not to be equalled.

Next week: It’s back to current celebrities - Jack Black.

This week’s celebrity involves an internet group I joined back in May 2006 while serching for a theme song from the program. The first season of the series ‘Simon and Simon’ was playing on the ‘Sleuth’ cable television station. I knew the standard theme for the series but not the first season’s. Finding this ‘Yahoo’ group I noticed they had a caption contest, which is something I had been looking for as a casually challenging game. So I joined and started getting a lot more practice writing captions. Along the way it was asked, noticing my being a caricaturist, why I hadn’t drawn the Simon brothers (Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney). So I added their names to the current celebrity cup six months ago. The first came up last week and here is the drawing.

I’m not real nuts about the final result. I really struggle with the so-called “beautiful people”. He must be one of them. Simple features arranged in an almost non-defined way. My struggle is not to overly define them. Which I did here. However, I was running out of time, so I wrapped this as it is.

Florida connections: I’ve since learned that the Simon & Simon series was originally to be based in Florida somewhere between Florida City and Key Largo. The original pilot was partially shot in and around Everglades City. While we were doing other research down there, I found a few of the locations. Apparently cost relocated the series to San Diego. Watching the first season, the storylines seemed to be retooled from Florida to fit in California.

Also, Gerald McRaney is now married to Orlando native Delta Burke.

Next week: Back to the humor cup and, finally, one of my very favorites, Groucho Marx.

This week it’s from the humor side with Harpo Marx from my favorite comedy team - The Marx Brothers.

I’ve loved the Brothers since I first saw one of their films on Channel 9 in Orlando in the ’70s when I was small. I specifically remember watching Marx Brother marathons overnight after the start of the new year on Channel 9. That early appreciation of satire has me appreciating the sharp humor of Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, George S. Kaufman today.

This year I was away for New Years Eve in Fort Lauderdale. When I returned to my hotel room I pulled from a DVD set I had brought with me and started my own Marx marathon by slipping ‘Go West’ in my portable computer.

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Next week: Jameson Parker (Simon & Simon) - and the story of why I’m drawing him!

This week it’s a current celebrity. Reading about Beyonce Knowles I learned she is unlike other popular current female singers and so-called stars. She’s been working at keeping her private life just that- Private. While drawing her I found it interesting that she has similar features to the international pop princess, Kylie Minogue.

 

Next week it’s someone from the humor world - and part of my favorite brothers - Harpo Marx.