Oh, and venereal disease.
(first time I've ever posted that sentence)
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- Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:53 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Sacred Cows
- Replies: 13
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- Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:50 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Sacred Cows
- Replies: 13
- Views: 30483
Sacred Cows
Steve and Ben's MoMA series got me thinking. Silent comedy had no problem tackling race, sex, war, ethnicity, capital punishment, homosexuality, terrorism (usually in the form of bomb-throwing anarchists), drug abuse, cannibalism, murder, insanity, white slavery, death, etc. etc. But what were the s...
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:01 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: May and Harry... They Were So Great Together
- Replies: 2
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Re: May and Harry... They Were So Great Together
And the scene just screams 1914. Puts me in mind of Joe Adamson's famous comment about "the Myrna Loy westerns of Alfred Hitchcock". That's what happens when a Fox publicity hack returns from a 3-martini lunch.