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I'm planning to go on June 8 for So's Your Old Man if other Mafioso want to meet up for lunch or dinner.

Michael Agee's long-awaited The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy: The Definitive Edition is finally to be released at a pre-order discount of $120 for just a couple of weeks. The damndest thing is Agee's autobiographical essay, which has to be the most wrenching, soul-baring confessional ever committe...

And make sure you stay to the end so you can see Jean Harlow's disembodied head ascend to Heaven.

Did anyone catch the 1938 Jimmy Fielder's Personality Parade on Tuesday morning? It had something like 60 clips of silent and early talkie stars, mostly culled from newsreels. But it had a clip of Harry Langdon on a golf course, hitting a ball and running away as it boomerangs back on him. I couldn'...

Who knows, even tho there is a section called State's Rights, it seems like the Weisses just wanted to bypass the trade press. BTW, I noticed that two pages should be reversed: RC6 and RC7. Noticed too a forthcoming Laurel & Hardy short called "Vodeville", which became Berth Marks. And...

The microfilm/pdf scanner is a loaner from the PowerScan 2000 company to get a reaction from staff and patrons. So for now it is free. But even if it become a permanent fixture you would think that the user fees would be minimal since it uses no ink or paper. You would think. When I say Geek, think ...

Thanks to some new technology (PowerScan2000) at the Library of Congress' Motion Picture Reading Room, it is possible to scan their microfilm copyright and trade paper pages as pdf's onto your thumb drive. Researchers need no longer haul rolls of quarters past security and explain to the guard that ...

Wild Man of Borneo (not 1926), intended as the followup to So's Your Old Man, scripted by Herman J. Mankewicz, but never filmed.

The other sailors in A Submarine Pirate may have been actual U.S. Navy submariners since it was filmed on location at the San Diego (or San Pedro) Navy yard.