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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to mention that HATS OFF comment. I do not know the man (save for an extraordinarily brief encounter in 1990) I know nothing about him, so I will not speculate. I WILL say that he is absolutely welcome to call, write, email, visit, or carrier pigeon...

Uli, If you'll send me his contact info, privately, I'll see that he gets in. I suspect that he was caught up in the SPAM filter. Speaking of SPAM, I'll be doing an overhaul of the board sometime this week. We will post the time and day that the board will be unavailable while I perform some long ov...

Dorothy Provine: Actress and singer best known for 'The Roaring 20s' and its spin-off hit 'Don't Bring Lulu' By Spencer Leigh Tuesday, 4 May 2010 The all-singing, all-dancing party girl, Pinky Pinkham, played by Dorothy Provine in the 1960s TV series The Roaring 20s, was close to the actress's own p...

Paddie O'Neil Dies Tuesday, 27 April 2010 Actress, singer and comedienne, Paddie O'Neil was a lady of formidable talents who, while never a major star, made a strong impression on stage, television and radio, and appeared with Peter Sellers in his first film, Penny Points to Paradise (1951), which t...

** Please note that Furio Scarpelli was a writer for the Toto who appeared in SOUND ERA comedies, not the Toto (1888 - 1938) who appeared in SILENT Hal Roach comedies. -- Paul E. Gierucki April 30, 2010 Furio Scarpelli, Screenwriter of Italian Comedies, Dies at 90 By DAVE KEHR Furio Scarpelli, a scr...

Hollywood Sign Watch: Preservationists Ask Californians for Help By Megan Mollman Apr 20th 2010 @ 11:04AM Advocates trying to preserve the iconic mountaintop Hollywood sign in Los Angeles have less than two weeks to come up with the remaining $1.5 million dollars needed to buy the $12.5 million plot...

Henry Scarpelli has died. Does the name sound familiar? If you are a fan of Abbott and Costello, or if you collected movie and TV comic books when you were a kid, it should! Get the whole story here: http://scaredsillybypaulcastiglia.blogspot.com/2010/04/rip-henry-scarpelli-1930-2010.html -- Paul E....

Actress June Havoc dies at 97 Duane Byrge Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:06pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - June Havoc, a stage, movie and TV actress who started in vaudeville at age 2 and was the younger sister of burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee, died Sunday at her home in Stamford, Conn. She was 97. ...

More from the SMPTE Journal: D. Karl Malkames, ASC, SMPTE Life Fellow and noted Archival Film Reproduction Specialist, died on Monday, March 8, 2010 at the age of 84. His many unusual contributions to the motion picture industry will long be remembered after his passing. He was an inventor and engin...

The Silent Comedy Mafia wishes to extend sincere condolences to the family. ---------------------------------------- Karl Malkames, a cinematographer, inventor, film historian and pioneering motion picture film preservationist, died March 8th at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. He was 83 years old. Mr. M...