We know plenty about the movies of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy but very little about their wildly-successful tours of Europe. Crowds turned out in Elvis/Beatles numbers and the performances they gave were packed.
Some of this is covered very well in a half-hour radio special on BBC4 by film historian Glenn Mitchell, who managed to find many "lost" recordings of Stan and Ollie. You can hear it for the next few days at this link. Don't delay.
Clips from my Comic-Con panels — all of them unauthorized and most of them very much out-of-sync — are turning up on YouTube. But I thought it was worth linking to this one. It runs a minute and a half and it's from Sunday's Cartoon Voice Panel. Bob Bergen is the current voice of Porky Pig and many of the Warner Brothers characters. I asked him about one experience he had doing the voice of Luke Skywalker for a Star Wars radio program.
July 28, 2006
