{"id":6062,"date":"2007-03-01T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:15:56","slug":"today-hed-probably-be-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6062","title":{"rendered":"Groucho Marx on W.C. Fields: &#8220;Today he&#8217;d probably be arrested.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Groucho Marx to Roger Ebert, in 1972<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I knew [W.C.] Fields well.  He used to sit in the bushes in front of his house with a BB gun and shoot at people. Today he&#8217;d probably be arrested. He invited me over to his house. He had a girlfriend there. I think her name was Carlotta Monti. <i>Car-lot-ta MON-ti<\/i>! That&#8217;s the kind of a name a girl of Fields would have. He had a ladder leading up to his attic. Without exaggeration, there was $50,000 in liquor up there. Crated up like a wharf. I&#8217;m standing there and Fields is standing there, and nobody says anything. The silence is oppressive. Finally he speaks: <i>This will carry me 25 years<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am strangely charmed by every single detail in that story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groucho Marx to Roger Ebert, in 1972: &#8220;I knew [W.C.] Fields well. He used to sit in the bushes in front of his house with a BB gun and shoot at people. Today he&#8217;d probably be arrested. He invited me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6062\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180238,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions\/180238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}