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I ordered two Busters - - one for my friend Andrea Gutsche, another for Nico Cartenstadt. Both people who love Buster and are 100% capable of buying their own copy, but are hesitant to watch any of Buster's later films that are so "beneath him". But I could just burn copies, and then ever...

While what happened to Paul (and, by extension, everyone involved in Laughsmith projects) was extremely unfortunate, at least the discs are accessible/available again, and not at $100 eBay price tags. So personally, I'm going to grab a couple of spares as "gifts" for people who enjoy Bust...

I can probably safely assume that everybody here has these already(if you haven't contributed to them directly), but at this price these fantastic sets should be handed out like Hallowe'en candy. http://www.oldies.com/product-view/1031ED.html http://www.oldies.com/product-view/1072ED.html Chris Yep...

Thomas Reeder wrote:I'm not familiar with the author, but for those of you having difficulty falling asleep tonight:
http://nickredfern.wordpress.com/catego ... y-lehrman/

I think Mr. Redfern's shot-length distributions are a bit on the short side.



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Joe Moore wrote I only know of two of Stone's Roach films being extant- Sherlock Sleuth and Just a Good Guy. The series appears to have had a troubled production history. One entry (production number E-4) was abandoned after a week of shooting. Two others (E-9 and E-11) appear to have been complete...

It is with profound regret that we are announcing the cancellation of Slapsticon 2011 and Slapsticon’s severing of relations with the Artisphere, the new group that replaced the old Arlington County Cultural Affairs this year that had presented the Slapsticon at the Rosslyn Spectrum Theater since 20...

How did you get involved with this project, Richard? Kit Parker asked me to do it. I had a print of the film and knew it, but had not really looked at it in years. Whats interesting is that it has a number of rare European comedy titles including a couple of Max Linders, a Polidor, and a Little Mor...

Eh, well, what the hell, a good review is a good review:

http://blogs.ktla.com/bluray/2011/05/si ... s-dvd.html


RICHARD M ROBERTS

This week Jonathan Winters was the guest on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, here: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_173_-_jonathan_winters Maron is a working comic who produces his twice-weekly podcast from the road. He gets a lot of mileage from his interviews with fellow comics because the...

Well, I'm not sure that is correct. As I recall, it's a later vintage comedy than the Moranti Reelcrafts, which ended in 1921-22, and Moranti did so many other independent series. But then again, i'm going on twenty-plus year old memories of the last time I bothered to look at the film. The actual ...