Saturday, January 8, 2005

For That Matter...

Where's Gallagher? [Warning: Link to website that asks you for your age and zip code.]

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Where's Shecky?

Here's an article that answers the musical question: Whatever happened to Shecky Greene?

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More on Soupy's Star

Here, straight from Mark Kausler's digital camera, are scenes from yesterday morning's Soupy Ceremony. Nice to see how happy Mr. Sales appears in the pics.

And I'll also mention that Mark has made a wonderful animated short called It's the Cat, which has generated some "Oscar buzz." It's being shown next Saturday at 10 AM at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater at the Motion Picture Academy as part of an all-day progam of semi-finalists in the Short Subject category. I saw it in rough cut/pencil test form a year or two ago and it sure struck me as worthy of one of those little golden statuettes.

• Posted at 1:44 AM · LINK

Another Nice Message

When I was a lad, I liked nothing better than watching Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy. I watched them on TV, especially for about a year in L.A. when one of our local kid show hosts, Engineer Bill, ran their shorts every afternoon on Channel 9. I watched them at whatever revival houses ran their work. I even bought 8mm silent movies of them from companies like Blackhawk Films and Atlas Films, and watched them over and over and over. That's the box for an Atlas Film at left. Most of their offerings came in two versions — the 50 ft. reel, which gave you a little less than four minutes of the movie, and the 200 ft. reel which ran around fifteen.

As I found, even badly-edited, chopped-up, fuzzy-imaged Stan and Ollie was better than no Stan and Ollie. Having spent much of my life watching and studying these two gentlemen, I thought it was only right that this site should have a Laurel and Hardy Filmography. Over there, you'll find a list of all their films together, plus cast lists, a brief summary of each plot and my evaluation of each film. I can think of at least ten friends of mine who will strenuously disagree with some of my opinions...which is okay because my opinions often change when I see a film again. These may change, as well, especially if rumors of pending DVD releases prove true, and I can watch them all over and over and over.

Hope you enjoy it. A similar section on the Marx Brothers will follow.

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