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By Rosie Day
Rappahannock News Writer
RAAC will present a double feature at The Theatre in Washington Friday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. First, a famous Marx Brothers political satire - "Duck Soup" and then a recently produced documentary, "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg."
"Duck Soup" featuring the Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont was directed by Leo McCarey in 1933 and is the Marx Brothers' purest and most insane film.
It contains most of the brothers' most famous sequences: the lemonade stand, a masterpiece of slow burn; the Paul Revere parody; the "Were Going to War" number; a beautiful spoof of thirties musicals; the mirror scene; and a final battle episode that has since been copied by everyone from Woody Allen to Mad Magazine. (Black and White, 70 minutes, not rated )
In "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" we learn to know a true American hero. He was the heavy hitting Detroit Tiger who was the first Jewish star in professional baseball in the 1930's and 1940 s.
It took Washington, DC filmmaker Aviva Kempner 13 years to make this lighthearted, homespun American story. There are interviews with Greenberg himself, and testimonials from awe-struck fans like lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Walter Matthau, and Senator Carl Levin who recall how Greenberg gave
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