Duck Soup, Horse Feathers and Curly Joe
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- March
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In yesterday’s column, I mentioned in passing all the talk about pushing Lenny Spano into running for mayor of Yonkers. Seeing is believing, though.
Lenny is one of many Spanos—the first family of Westchester politics. But he is not as well known as his brothers, the recently deposed state Sen. Nick Spano and the recently elected Assemblyman Mike Spano.
In the column, I compared Lenny to Zeppo, the forgotten Marx brother. Lenny e-mailed me this morning, saying that a couple of people called him and left phone messages referring to him as Zeppo.
“After spending the day taking the ribbing and trying to explain that it was not a shot at me I finally realized that it could have been worse, you could have referred to me as the little known stooge, Joe Besser.”
I remember him. Curly Joe!
But here’s the deal. It wasn’t a shot at Lenny. Not exactly. After all, Zeppo was supposed to be the good-looking Marx Brother.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
