It’s funny how things can get all screwed up. Tonto Fielding accidentally sent this photograph to a friend who works for Reuters. It accidentally was deposited in an editors folder for the Asian Bureau. A cub reporter took the photo as an indication that Gandhi was being deified by a growing segment of the youth in India. It then appeared in a Pakistani newspaper, which created an international dust up that escalated to the brink of nuclear war.
As it turns out, the photograph was actually taken by Tonto at a Marx Brothers film festival at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi. They are huge Groucho fans there.
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I grew up watching Marx Brothers films that my mom would get from the Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury, Vermont. Aside from the some of the greatest humor ever caught on film, I was always drawn in by Chico Marx on the piano. Here's one of his best performances from The Marx Brothers Go West. All Chico. No camera tricks. Pretty amazing.
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