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Here’s an interesting item I came across recently in a Pathepictures catalog of non-theatrical rental films selected for religious, educational and social groups dating from 1925: http://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/catalogueofpathe00path_0046 Note the Harry Langdon film listed as MAIL AND FEMALE, ...

Here's actually a pretty good backlash article about the Pythons:


http://thequietus.com/articles/15649-monty-python


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Seems rather topical:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKL4V4KN5y4


Happy Fourth of July Everyone!


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Well, I know this will come as no big surprise, but Serge Bromberg and David Shepard have managed to suck the life out of some classic comedy once again with this new Kino/Lobster Max Linder Collection with their trademark slide-presentation film speeds. As always, a real pity, as the prints look go...

Another dose of Columbia Comedy, Hugh Herbert and Dudley Dickerson in ONE SHIVERY NIGHT:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRzdv62OL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k8Zb75FSsU



RICHARD M ROBERTS

W. C. Fields played Captain Andy in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's SHOWBOAT only once, for two weeks in August 1930 for the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company. The lucky people of St. Louis and outlying areas were the only ones to be so blessed as to see a man play a role he was born to play. Th...

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



RICHARD M ROBERTS

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...

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...

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...