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Posted on 04/06/2004 6:53:09 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: Overtaxed
PS: Oh, yeah, also in comedy Buster Keaton--brilliant stuff.
To: Overtaxed
Posted 5221 before I read your 5220--great minds think alike :) Keaton rules :)
To: ecurbh
Glad the interview went well! Will keep it in my prayers; keep us updated!
To: HairOfTheDog
Hehehe. I was watching a Mister Ed DVD the other week. Wilbur's neighbor made a slighting remark about the horse and Mr. Ed popped him upside the head with his tail. For some reason, it reminded me of your horses.
To: Fedora
Don't see what's so great about Chaplin. I think Buster and Harold Lloyd are funnier....and Laurel and Hardy.
To: Overtaxed
Have you ever seen
Der Golem? (no relation to Gollum, LOL!) That's another one made about the same time as
Nosferatu I like.
I've thought of the Chaney/Cheney thing too, LOL! I was glad to see the TCM restoration of London After Midnight they showed recently--that was his spookiest make-up, IMO. I also like his non-horror stuff--Unholy Three and Laugh, Clown, Laugh are a couple they show fairly often.
To: Fedora
Yeah, I've seen it...but it's been a long time. For a minute there I was getting it confused with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
To: Overtaxed
Don't see what's so great about Chaplin. I think Buster and Harold Lloyd are funnier....and Laurel and Hardy.Agree; although I don't know what comedy was like before Chaplin so maybe he was a step forward from something else. I have like a dozen Chaplin tapes I picked up on sale but still haven't watched all of them as I don't find them that funny; whereas once I discovered Keaton I couldn't watch his movies fast enough. Lloyd's Safety Last! is great. Harry Langdon is also funny. I've only seen a few Laurel and Hardys but they've all been good--saw Hardy in an early John Wayne movie once, too :) And then I love the Marx Brothers :)
To: Fedora
I like the Laurel and Hardy skit where the car falls apart and one of them says "I told you not to make that last payment!"
To: Overtaxed
For a minute there I was getting it confused with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.LOL! Yeah, that's another one that makes me think of, although I never thought that was very scary, just weird. Let's see, another German silent horror I've seen is Student of Prague. I guess there were some German ETA Hoffmann adaptations I haven't seen yet which I'd like to. On the American side I've seen some early Poe adaptations and clips from a couple silent versions of Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I also like the early French SF films by George Melies which verge on horror in some ways, esp. A Trip to the Moon and Conquest of the Pole. He did quite a few horror films apparently (Georges Melies Filmography)though I'm not sure how many have survived. I used to get to watch some of these films in a theater at a museum which recreated downtown Milwaukee in the early 1900s. You could go in and pay like a nickel and they'd show Caligari and Nosferatu and Melies and the Keystone Cops stuff like that in this old-fashioned movie theater.
To: Overtaxed
I like the Laurel and Hardy skit where the car falls apart and one of them says "I told you not to make that last payment!"ROFL! Sounds like another fine mess :)
To: Fedora
Heh. I'll have to see if I can find those to watch at home. I think I've see the Dr. Jekyll one and I've seen A Trip to the Moon.
To: Overtaxed
They show
A Trip to the Moon fairly often when they're covering the history of SF or horror on TCM. There were several different silent versions of
Dr. Jekyll; the one they show clips of most often is one I've never seen in its entirety which looks really good starring John Barrymore:
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920)
(When I posted that pic I noticed the bottom of the box mentions it includes a Stan Laurel spoof called Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride--ROFL! I've gotta see that :)
To: Fedora
Hehehe. Yeah, I've seen the one with John Barrymore.
To: ecurbh; 2Jedismom; 300winmag; Alkhin; Alouette; ambrose; Anitius Severinus Boethius; artios; ...
To: Overtaxed
How was it? The makeup looked pretty creepy. Kinda reminded me of Henry Hull's makeup in
Werewolf of London which is another one I like:
The Werewolf of London (1935)
To: Wneighbor
Well, it's afternoon, now, but Hi there!
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04/26/2004 1:05:22 PM PDT
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SuziQ
To: JerseyHighlander
I see he's got an endorsement from Mike Grell, which is a point in his favor :)
To: Fedora
I was under the impression that Barrymore didn't use special makeup for that movie....just facial expressions and a major bad hair event. But then, that might be just an urban legend.
To: ecurbh
so hopefully I'll be called back to meet with the client in a few days.I'll keep the prayers up for ya!
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04/26/2004 1:10:14 PM PDT
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SuziQ
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