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The Unknown Peter Sellers may be gone, but here is an hour-long radio documentary on Sellers' life called Being Here: The Peter Sellers Story. It will be on BBC Radio 2 for the next 6 days. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t5vdw

Soon after Slapsticon I visited Wonder Book in Frederick MD and picked up a volume I never heard of called Film Flashes: Wit and Wisdom of a Nation). It was published by Judge magazine, which I take to be a kind of American "Punch". I quickly realized that it was a yearbook containing arti...

Less than one day to listen to Glenn Mitchell's great audio documentary on rare and unknown Peter Sellers recordings. Saturday afternoon it goes "phhhhtt!" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t32rs

From a book that is on all our shelves, Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy by John McCabe: "I wish they'd re-release When Knights Were Cold ," Stan has said. "I guess maybe I'd like to see it again because it has one beautifully funny sequence that I've never seen in movies---either before or...

The Last Serial is Curses! , a 1925 Educational comedy credited to Grover Jones but widely accepted to have been directed by Roscoe Arbuckle. Glenn Photo didn't know what they had and created the title and the "Mack Sennett Comedy" ID out of whole cloth. I rate it as one of Educational's l...

Weary or leary?

The Library of Congress has Lane's first talkie, "Buying a Gun". Here is the cataloging info if you want to call it up before you get to town. http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=Lupino%20Lane&Search%5FCode=GKEY%5E%2A&CNT=100&PID=TnuCuG...

I have an unpublished biographical article which I'll give you next week. Lupino descended from two long-time theatrical families. As he tells it in his authorized biography, Born to Star, one of the Lane aunts was concerned that her surname was dying out due to a lack of newborn males in the Lane f...

Yeah, I've be waiting for another su...uh, customer...to actually get a set in-hand before sending in my hard-earned dough.

NIce article in The Washington Post about A Thief Catcher and Slapsticon. Good quotes from Paul and Richard. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 06255.html