Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
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Author: Mark Evanier
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Go See 'Em!
The website for Cracked, which used to be a magazine and is now a website, runs a neat series called Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped. Here's the latest installment and here's the one before that and the one before that and the one before that… […]
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Bill O'Reilly, who increasingly seems to be operating out of the John Birch Playbook, called Robert Reich a Communist. Mr. Reich responds. […]
Ghost Host
Scott Marinoff, who sends me a lot of great things I post here, just sent this photo of an on-screen listing on his DVR, which is part of AT&T U-Verse. It was for today's episode of The Price is Right but for some reason, the U-Verse folks thought it would be hosted by Bill Cullen. […]
Don't Wait To Get Hit With A Brick!
Here's another one of those "grab it while you can" deals! Amazon is selling a whole book of Krazy Kat strips by George Herriman for six bucks, marked down from fifteen! It's the fifth volume in the exquisite series from our friends at Fantagraphics Books and it might inspire you to collect 'em all…which wouldn't […]
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One of many things that are wrong in our national political dialogue is that there seems to be no penalty for being utterly and spectacularly wrong. If your doctor was usually incorrect in his diagnoses, you'd go find another doctor and at some point, he or she might do damage that would cost them their […]
Everything Turns Up on eBay!
Here's something you won't want to buy. A dealer on eBay is selling a copy of my high school yearbook. What's more, he's making a fuss about it being mine, even though I think there are several (now) more famous students in there. No, I won't be bidding. I have one…filled with autographs from my […]
Today's Video Link
I'm going to post another story about Dick Clark tomorrow or the next day but in the meantime, here's a short clip from one of his Pyramid shows that will show you another side of him. Dick was a very serious guy but every so often… This one was sent to me by Craig Shemin, […]
My Tweets from Yesterday
They're saying Newt's about to get out of the presidential race. Oh, and he was doing so well… 23:42:24 Too bad Elliot Spitzer never ran for president. He and the Secret Service would have gotten along just fine. 23:46:21 Just made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanut butter or jelly. I think some […]
Warm Feelings
My view on Climate Change is pretty simple but it still baffles some people. I hope the deniers are right. I want to believe that it's as much of a hoax or myth as they say…but I don't see that they have any significant amount of science on their side or anything resembling proof. It's […]
Following Up…
I have many messages this morning arguing whether that's Zeppo playing Groucho in the Animal Crackers clip. This may well be one of those "we'll never know for sure" things and no one writing me seems to have anything more to go on except whether they think it sounds like Groucho or not. My view […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
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Also From the E-Mailbag…
My friend Frank Buxton writes… In 1963 I was the host of a daytime game show on ABC called Get The Message. Goodson-Todman had sold ABC on the idea of three back-to-back half-hour game shows to air in the morning Monday-to-Friday. I hosted the first half-hour, Dick Clark was the host of the show that […]
From the E-Mailbag…
Justin Mory writes… Regarding facts the late actor Robert Heyges had reported wrong on his website about the Marx Brothers you wrote that Chico and Groucho never exchanged roles when performing on Broadway. But what I'm wondering is if it's true that Zeppo understudied Groucho's roles and filled-in when need arose? I'm thinking specifically of […]
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Frank Rich previews what may be the big story of the upcoming presidential election: How much money some rich old white guys are willing to spend to oust Barack Obama. And some of them really don't care if they're buying ad time to spread lies. […]