Postby Richard M Roberts » Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:13 pm
Gee, I sorta feel obligated to keep this thread going, since it seems to still beat records for hits on our site, though we know it’s just Nitratevilians checking to see if their names (or more likely, non-de-plumes) are mentioned. It is getting harder as it is really pretty damned boring over there, and I’m not particularly as inclined to check it as I had been.
Well, let’s see, most recent idiocies over there include the gasbag with the pretentious French moniker declaring all B Westerns to be lousy, more typical uninformed film snobbism (Hey, haven’t got to use that term in awhile, there don’t seem to be many of those over here). B Westerns are like any other genre, there are good ones and bad, but there are a heck of a lot of good ones, start with the Hopalong Cassidys and keep looking, even the frequently low-budget Bob Steeles are very enjoyable. I’d bet pretentious French-monikered gasbag actually hasn’t seen many, since Jeanette MacDonald is only in GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, his extremely narrow taste range probably isn’t able to handle people on horses.
Then Harold Aherne, who should know better, made a comment in a bizarre thread from someone into “alternate” history (like what the hell is this? Bullshit history perhaps the better term, most folk’s on Nitratevile’s grasp of actual film history already falls into the “Alternate” history category), but Harold surmised that nothing much would have happened different in Hollywood History if Shirley Temple had been “squibbed” (these people speak in tongues, they do). Yeah, not much, Twentieth Century Fox possibly going out of business not having their number one box office star of the late thirties ain’t much alternate Hollywood History I guess.
Oh, and that is definitely not Jimmy Savo in that “lost” film clip someone scanned and put up on Youtube. I think that’s a Vaudeville Comedy Team I’ve seen in another unidentified film clip in which the short guy is referred to as “McCarty”, but that’s all I can tell you about it.
In any event, there’s your Nitratevile Stupidity Roundup for this week, the rest just seemed pretty ho-hum, a lot of whining about no “definitive” or “ultimate” DVD version of INTOLERANCE, as if there could ever possibly be one on that patchwork title, but we aim to please in bringing you this service, and will continue to occasionally monitor that silly group as we can.
RICHARD M ROBERTS