AUGUST IS ZEPPO AWARENESS MONTH

AUGUST IS ZEPPO AWARENESS MONTH

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Wireless Flash) -- If you're a fan of Zeppo Marx, you've had a good reason to be a grouch -- until now. A group calling itself the "Society for the Prevention of Abuse toward Zeppo Marx" -- SPAZ for short -- has declared August 2000 as "Zeppo Marx Awareness Month." SPAZ president Aimee O'Connell says the group hopes to return the forgotten Marx brother to his rightful place in comedy history. Although Zeppo usually played the straight man, folks close to the Marx Brothers considered him to be the funniest, and the only one capable of filling in for the others in emergencies. The 100th anniversary of Zeppo's birth will take place in February of 2001 and O'Connell hopes to organize all 75 members of SPAZ for a special "Zeppocentennial" conference.