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I guess I'll start off the Passing Parade with this, although it would have fit in either Classic Radio ro Classic Television just as well. Don Pardo passed away Monday at his home in Tucson, Arizona: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/nyregion/don-pardo-the-voice-of-saturday-night-live-dies-at-96.ht...

Here's an interesting early version of the historical legend, alas, utilizing the same hair-hiding-everything get-up Maureen O'Hara went for decades later, but an early Vitagraph Epic featuring Julia Swayne Gordon, Robert Gaillard, Kate Price (stop trembling, she doen't play Godiva), and Clara Kimba...

Up to four five-star reviews today, and I particularly like a quote from Rift Corbett (who joined here some time ago, hello Rift, feel free to post something once in awhile): "Let's take "Fatty and Mabel Adrift" by far the best it has ever looked on home video and most importantly it ...

Quietly released and now ready for online order, apparently: http://www.laurelandhardyonstage.com/ Uli I can highly recommend this book to one and all, it's chock full of rare photos from their Denmark Tour of 1947, it's delightful to hear not one, but TWO audio versions of the "Driver's Licen...

Well, it looks like SOMEONE has gotten their copy from Flicker Alley, the set already has one five-star review on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Mack-Sennett-Coll ... dp_p_img_4



RICHARD M ROBERTS

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...