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by Richard M Roberts
Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:25 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: THE CHAMPS STEP OUT (1951) with The Two Maxies
Replies: 1
Views: 5987

THE CHAMPS STEP OUT (1951) with The Two Maxies

Here's some late Columbia comedy with Maxie Rosenbloom and Max Baer:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOXzWvYH_rQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOXzWvYH_rQ



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by Richard M Roberts
Sat Jun 28, 2014 4:28 am
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......
Replies: 45
Views: 83160

Re: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......

The Pythons have always been great self-promoters so you can all slam NEWSWEEK all you want but right now they are the teams greatest allies. They have gotten all of you to talk up the reunion show. If the tickets for their first shows sold out in 43 seconds, the Pythons need neither us nor Newswee...
by Richard M Roberts
Thu Jun 26, 2014 6:31 pm
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......
Replies: 45
Views: 83160

Re: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......

This provides a window into how Fox News has affected journalism in general: Any assertion can be legitimized through the simple addition of a question mark at the end of it. What they're really saying is: "Were the Pythons ever really that funny? We have no earthly idea what funny is, and don...
by Richard M Roberts
Thu Jun 26, 2014 6:19 pm
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......
Replies: 45
Views: 83160

Re: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......

This writer writes so negatively towards Python he's obvious not a fan so he feels a need to dig up every cliche' derogatory comment that's been used by others in the past. His first sentence is all wrong. LIFE OF BRIAN is not a spoof about the life of Jesus Christ. It's about the life of Brian, he...
by Richard M Roberts
Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:46 pm
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......
Replies: 45
Views: 83160

The Monty Python Backlash has begun......

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/06/27/mont ... ?piano_t=1


Classic current stupid media question of the day, "Were the Pythons ever really that funny?"

Answer: "Yeah you moron, they effin' were.".



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by Richard M Roberts
Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:09 am
Forum: SOUND MOVIE MAIN
Topic: Cinevent Past Notes: CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE (1944)
Replies: 0
Views: 6331

Cinevent Past Notes: CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE (1944)

All right, it's true confession time, as a person who never allows himself to be corralled into such nonsense as a ten-best list, or the greatest film of all time, most talented grip, best-best boy, whatever, I'm going out on a limb and cop something to ya—CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE is one of my favorite fil...
by Richard M Roberts
Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:34 pm
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: Comedian Mickey Deems (Mack & Myer for Hire) Dead at 88
Replies: 2
Views: 9854

Re: Comedian Mickey Deems (Mack & Myer for Hire) Dead at 88

Well remembering these is admitting our ages. Seems like yesterday my sister and I were eating eggs on toast for breakfast while watching Mack And Myer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDizX8UHMLo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPbswZ9WkLg Pasquale Hmmm, seems like only yesterday we were watching th...
by Richard M Roberts
Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:09 am
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Buster Keaton Show (1949)
Replies: 6
Views: 12556

Re: The Buster Keaton Show (1949)

That's the same scenario of why we have as many radio show's survive to this day, as we do. A program would be transcribed, usually for the ad agency, and then stored away and forgotten until some former employee goes home with it and 30 years later it is found in the garage. Bing Crosby's KRAFT MU...
by Richard M Roberts
Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:11 am
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Buster Keaton Show (1949)
Replies: 6
Views: 12556

Re: The Buster Keaton Show (1949)

That's where I first saw it. On VHS. Since I came up in the era when we were being told that the majority of silent films were lost forever.....only to find continual constant discoveries the past 30 years or so, I find I am now almost as interested in how something once thought lost is now found, ...
by Richard M Roberts
Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:05 pm
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Buster Keaton Show (1949)
Replies: 6
Views: 12556

Re: The Buster Keaton Show (1949)

Gary Johnson wrote:How did this survive? Was a copy found in Keaton's shed?



No idea, turned up and started circulating a few years ago (I think it was first seen on an old Video Yesteryear VHS release)



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