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Jim Roots wrote:They're abandoning the planet to the unintentionally funny people.

Jim

Apparently.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

The irony is that several archives have been working to restore the sound version of HIGH TREASON for a number of years, and what bits of it I had seen foretold it to be an early-talkie stinker, but the silent version has been around a long time and is a much better film, stylish, fluid, and Benita ...

So we come home from the Bill "Wallace" Thompson Memorial Service last night to find out that Robin Williams has killed himself.

Not one of the better days, the few intentionally funny people left seem to be leaving the planet.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

The mention of Robert Halmi’s adaptations of literary classics like GULLIVER’S TRAVELS with Ted Danson or CRIME AND PUNISHMENT with Patrick Dempsey reminded me of a running joke Randy Skretvedt and I had for years about a small-town Dinner Theater run by a former Stagecraft Teacher with high-blown p...

Who's Allen Perkins? He seems to be taking the baton from Sulpy, only he's irate about The Phantom of the Opera. Well, that’s another film that will continually get the screaming voices in the heads of the anals singing in four-part harmony because there were so many versions and re-do’s of that me...

Louie Despres wrote:Looks like I missed a lot of "fun" stuff while I was watching great films all weekend at Capitolfest!

And we're expecting a full report!


RICHARD M ROBERTS

I still think 36 frames per second for the Mutuals would be the way to go. DBP Yes, but unlike Nitratevile, as we are more tolerant of people's incredibly stupid ideas around here, you will not be banned for that, at least not for the moment because we'll want to make fun of you. Heck, I'd just set...

Eric Idle has written a new theme song for BBC Radio 4's THE INFINITE MONKEY CAGE that is better than the whole damn Python reunion and he finally cops to something I've suspected about him for decades, that he is Britain's new model George Formby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tdN5uEjnKs RICHARD...

Let's not forget Robert Israel, he got in a couple of really good posts as well. Basically stating..."if ya don't like what's being released, produce your own". Pasquale Ventura Well, that's kinda a valid point when Sulphy wouldn't even put up his self-claimed "complete" version...

Gary Johnson wrote:Yes, I can't remember the last time he joined in to a thread.

There must be Mafia money involved in the backing of this Mutual set.

No, I don't think anyone here has a penny invested in it.


RICHARD M ROBERTS