Gene Krupa
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The Marx Brothers only TV appearance as a group of five . . .
Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Gummo (Gummo left the act and became their manager before the group achieved fame).
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My clipboard is twitching…
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Throw the book at him
I mean, I can’t even see his helmet…
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I reckon he’s just trying to get in a multi horn speaker set up sweet spot.
I was trying to work out whether there was a way that head size difference could have been achieved with clever camera lensing - simulating viewing them as if from much closer in (if you were two feet away from him and five feet from her then that head size difference could be what you’d see). But I don’t think that’s it. His left foot is behind hers, although her body and head lean back well behind him, and there is clearly at least a few feet of floor between the camera and the subjects.
They’re just weird.
EDIT: There’s commentary on it here https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-irving-penn-portrait-for-the-coldest-days-of-winter. It seems he was a bear of a man (6ft 7in tall and heavily built) and she was very petite.
EDIT II: Another site says his first wife was an Inuit and they had two children “… a son named Mequsaq Avataq Igimaqssusuktoranguapaluk and a daughter named Pipaluk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Hager”. The lad must have struggled when it came to hiring a car.
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I’ll wager he caught whatever animals provided those furs with his bare hands. I can just imagine him frightening off a polar bear.
That’s Mick Fleetwood isn’t it?
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One of the web pages claims that that coat is made from polar bear skin, Freuchen having killed the bear himself. It seems it was a pretty old coat by the time the pic was taken. He killed the bear when he was a much younger man and when they (the bears) weren’t nearly so threatened as they are now.
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Quite the life
he encountered death at almost every turn. He was trapped for several days in an avalanche. A camp cook almost shot him, thinking he was a bear. He fell through a hole in fetid sea ice and had to have a team of sled dogs pull him out. He stabbed his own thigh with a harpoon as he climbed down a glacier using ropes made out of sealskin, and he got trapped in a snow cave because the warmth from his breath formed an impassable crust on the opening. In order to escape from the snow cave, he fashioned a chisel that he sometimes described as having been made from his own frozen feces. While he was stuck, whittling away at the ice, one of his feet froze so severely that he was forced to amputate several of his own toes. Later, he lost the foot entirely.
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He’s a tad bigger than Mick 
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I can go back to bed now, my day is complete!
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