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Richard, this is one of maybe three sites I visit daily. I'm glad to be a member, and this is an anniversary well worth celebrating. Thanks for all the knowledge you've imparted. I'm looking forward to what's to come. On a side note, I was finally able to scrounge a copy of SMILEAGE GUARANTEED, and ...

This was really enjoyable. Harry Gribbon is usually fun to watch. The singing ducks was a good gag, and it was nice to see Barney Hellum as one of the off-screen musicians. The Jolson reference reminded me of the story (perhaps apocryphal) of someone (possibly Vernon Dent) whistling or humming a son...

Wouldn't it be nice if he's now meeting Hal Roach, et al, and they're thanking him for taking such good care of their records?

I have no need for artificial intelligence, what I keep hoping for is Genuine Intelligence in Humanity, but I keep getting disappointed. These days, people's cell phones are smarter than they are. RICHARD M ROBERTS To paraphrase Fred Allen, "the average (fill in the blank) is well below averag...

Here's my two cents: #1 looks like a guy who came in dead last in a French Chaplin lookalike contest (seriously, top hat and bow tie?), #2 is not of this world (therefore a perfect rep for AI - any bets on whether he has six fingers?), and #3 looks like LIMELIGHT-era Chaplin entering a Robert Downey...

Points well taken, Richard. At some stage in my collecting life, I realized there's a saturation level where you just say, that's it. I just turned 65, and my feeling is, I'll concentrate on purchasing stuff I don't already own. I bought the Milestone POTO after holding out for many years; I didn't ...

You know you've made it when you get a Hirschfeld caricature! Good show, Richard.

The only saving grace is, if you run it at sound speed, it should only be around 5:25. Still not, to coin an old phrase, the most effective use of my time. I could watch a good triple feature (to say the least) during that time. But, to each his own. Not to get off on a tangent, but someone's runnin...

I have an old ragtime album by Dick Wellstood, playing Scott Joplin. In the liner notes for THE RAGTIME DANCE, he tells an anecdote about his being the copyist for THE RAGTIME YEARS. He apologized to the pianist who had to work from his illegible score (which was unreadable due to time constraints).

Richard, that's one of the most concise, and certainly one of the funniest reviews I've ever read. It ranks right up there with the critic who described a 121-minute WWII epic as two hours too long.