I haven't read many, but my clear fave is that of Harpo Marx--the silent, curly-haired Marx Brother. He was a really nice man, and really funny, and hung out with entertaining people (like Alexander Woollcott of the Algonquin Round Table) so it's super entertaining. My brother thought so too. It's the kind of book that leaves you with a lot of favourite stories at the end.
Like his claim that he went to a movie with George Burns, fell asleep during, and Burns ate his entire gigantic bag of black jellybeans; but that Burns claims they fell off his lap, cascaded down the length of the theatre, and caused a huge ruckus.
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I am reading the unauthorized biography of Angela Jolie by Andrew Morton... it's "whatever"
Harpo's adventure as the first American to perform in Communist Russia and then hired by the CIA to smuggle documents out of the country alone was worthy of a spy movie!
Also, the end of the book where he talks about parenting his adopted children lives with me still.
"Daddy, tell us the story of how you and Mommy found us!"
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