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by Paul E. Gierucki
Tue Dec 31, 2024 12:31 pm
Forum: THE PASSING PARADE
Topic: Donna L. Hill
Replies: 3
Views: 1625

Re: Donna L. Hill

She was a regular at Cinecon (usually spotted with Joan Myers, and the rest of the Daughters of Naldi, holding court at the Pig and Whistle) but I cannot immediately recall her making the trek down for Slapsticon either. More's the pity. I did, however, preserve a few of her STOLEN MOMENTS podcasts ...
by Paul E. Gierucki
Mon Dec 30, 2024 11:47 pm
Forum: THE PASSING PARADE
Topic: Donna L. Hill
Replies: 3
Views: 1625

Donna L. Hill

Am deeply saddened to report the unexpected passing of our longtime friend -- author, silent film historian, and collector, Donna Hill. Donna was the authority on all things Valentino (see her book: Rudolph Valentino - The Silent Idol, His Life in Photographs) and, in addition to collaborating on so...
by Paul E. Gierucki
Tue Nov 12, 2024 7:12 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: CHARLEY CHASE AT HAL ROACH: THE LATE SILENTS 1927 Coming in November.........
Replies: 36
Views: 45592

Re: CHARLEY CHASE AT HAL ROACH: THE LATE SILENTS 1927 Coming in November.........

Sprocket Vault's CHARLEY CHASE 1927 screeners are in the house! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54135131692_cb74907b18.jpg No hyperbole here, these are among the finest comedies produced by the Hal Roach Studios, every bit as fun, funny, and charming as the Laurel & Hardy or Our Gang shorts ...
by Paul E. Gierucki
Mon Oct 21, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: SCM DDOS ATTACK and MAINTENANCE
Replies: 9
Views: 9237

Re: SCM DDOS ATTACK and MAINTENANCE

Fab! Thanks, Louie! I have some additional upgrades to make, there will be occasional late night outages, but we are officially back on line and good to go. Post at will!
by Paul E. Gierucki
Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: SCM DDOS ATTACK and MAINTENANCE
Replies: 9
Views: 9237

Re: SCM DDOS ATTACK and MAINTENANCE

Fantastic! Thank you, Dennis!
by Paul E. Gierucki
Mon Oct 21, 2024 6:12 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: SCM DDOS ATTACK and MAINTENANCE
Replies: 9
Views: 9237

Re: SCM DDOS ATTACK and MAINTENANCE

Good evening! We have been making adjustments to the site security and firewall, everything appears to be sorted for the administrators, now we are turning attention to resolving the blocked IP address warning members are receiving. If the first few readers who see this message could please try to p...
by Paul E. Gierucki
Fri Oct 18, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: SCM DDOS ATTACK and MAINTENANCE
Replies: 9
Views: 9237

SCM DDOS ATTACK and MAINTENANCE

Hi, All -- Several days ago the Silent Comedy Mafia site, and other similar PHPBBs were hit with a sustained DDOS attack which made it impossible for anyone to reach the site. When we were finally able to regain access, Godfathers Roberts and Farr discovered they were locked out of key functions, un...
by Paul E. Gierucki
Fri Sep 06, 2024 12:04 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Moe Howard in MR. BOLTER’S INFATUATION?
Replies: 5
Views: 11965

Re: Moe Howard in MR. BOLTER’S INFATUATION?

Richard is correct. Multiple childhood photos of both Moe and Shemp survive -- they are easily recognizable during their early teen years. (Several of those snapshots appear in the 2024 revised edition of STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM.) I can say with absolute certainty that this is not Moe How...