Cinco Paul
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And the songs in that are so good.
And then I have to say the Marx Brothers have played a huge role in my life.
I'm sure that's why I ended up writing movies.
I saw my first Marx Brothers movie when I was 10 on TV.
And I fell in love with the Marx Brothers and became obsessed.
And that really led to my love of movies and reading about movies.
And then...
starting to make my own with our family's Super 8 camera, which we'd gotten for home movies, you know, on vacation.
And suddenly I used it just to make movies with all the neighborhood kids.
Yeah, it's called Make Him Watch It, and we make each other watch a movie we've never seen before.
It is.
I wrote the song.
So now that there's COVID-19, here's what we're gonna do.
I mean, it probably came from my love of the Marx Brothers, you know, and a lot of their movies were kind of musicals.
You know, the coconuts, animal crackers, horse feathers has a lot of songs in it.
So I think that led to my love of these 1920s songs, you know, the Tin Pan Alley stuff.
And from the time, I was a weird little kid, Terry, I have to say.
Like to be a 10 or 11-year-old kid obsessed with that sort of music was very odd.
But I just, I loved it from an early age.
From your mouth to God's ears.