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RIP Ruth Buzzi travsd.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/r...

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Fondly remembered, above all for MIUNCHAUSEN

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John Neville was in Shaggy Dog, an early “comedy” from Dennis Potter. tvark.org/company-of-f...

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Well, how about it, Noah, ol’ Puff-Ball? An’thing--along that path in Hickdom you travel?

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[Yes, this woman was daffy enough to marry Criswell.]

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The exceedingly intricate--and to considerable extent hypothetical--“psychological reasons” why men who snatch slippers off of women--and run off with same!--and also sometimes steal individual rubbers, from line-ups of rubbers and galoshes--are pyromaniacs, have just been set forth.

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[John Neville, born 100 years ago today, played Hamlet (Judi Dench as Ophelia) and Romeo (Claire Bloom as Juliet), and was later seen as Lord Alfred Douglas, Dr. Thorndyke, Sherlock Holmes, Baron Munchausen, and the Well-Manicured Man on the X-Files.]

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Or for instance--a flashlight picture of--say--the Dusk Club is developed, and the photograph of Mrs. Lester Banks, wife of the candidate for New York’s Mayor, is missing; and in its place is a picture, identified by Gregorio Saltini, the great Orientalist, as--as the lost bride of Ghengis Khan!

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Like for instance--a poor student goes into a Chinese restaurant, orders an 85-cent table d’hote dinner, opens up a walnut in the last course--and inside it finds a plan, drawn on a paper napkin, and signed by the mad Lama of Tibet, to seize Greenland and make it pan-Buddhistic! No, I’m not fooling.

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[Busy TV director Ralph Senensky is remembered for using a battery, a wire, and some lighter fluid to set Burgess Meredith's finger on fire for the Twilight Zone episode, "Printer's Devil," written by Charles Beaumont. Ralph celebrates his 102nd birthday today.]

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It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this. Photo from my collection, 1949.

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He sat, pondering, and his face, though troubled at something, carried a look of assured knowledge that could only be carried on the face of an author whose book burlesqued all drama and melodrama, from the Nickel Detective Magazine up to Monte Cristo itself.

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[Old Cartoon Memes: The Curate’s Egg. By George DuMaurier (copying Wilkerson, copying an old anecdote), Punch, November 9, 1895.]

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[Old Cartoon Memes: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it. By Carl Rose and E. B. White, The New Yorker, December 8, 1928.]

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[I love you Alice B. Toklas (BOTD in 1877), and so does Gertrude Stein. Alice's recipe for "Haschich Fudge" appeared in the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, and Alice would like to read it to you, right now, in Hi-Fi.] archive.org/details/lp_a...

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Gramps, my case, I tell you, has got everything in it but the one thing that goes best of all on jackets: a cat! ’Tain’t got no cats, no. But outside o’ that, it’s a--a book jacket artist’s feast.

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[1814, we took a little trip... Johnny Horton was born April 30, 1925, a century ago, to win a Grammy for his 1959 single, "The Battle of New Orleans." In 1960, he died in a car crash. Billie Jean Horton, widow of both Johnny Horton and Hank Williams, is still with us.] archive.org/details/the-...

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[SINNERS (2025) includes Buddy Guy himself, and performances of Charley Patton's "Pony Blues" (1929) and Geeshie Wiley's "Pick Poor Robin Clean" (1930), both originally recorded for Paramount, a division of the Wisconsin Chair Company. Here's 800 Wisconsin Chair tracks.] archive.org/details/para...

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[The incredible Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas materialized out of the void to record "Pick Poor Robin Clean" and five other masterpieces, then vanished from human ken. Here's what little we can learn about them, with the only known photo of L. V.] www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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[RIP child star Cora Sue Collins, 98, who portrayed a patient of Dr. Gogol's in MAD LOVE (1934) and the title rôle "as a child" in THE SIN OF NORA MORAN (1933).]

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[Iwao Takamoto was BOTD 100 years ago. He studied art in the Manzanar Internment Camp and later went to work for Disney and Hanna-Barbera. He directed CHARLOTTE'S WEB (1973) and designed (among many others) Astro, Muttley, and Scooby-Doo.]

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That she was nominated but did not win seems very existential.

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[Allegorical representation of America seated on an armadillo, late 16th century.]

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No, no, no, they didn’t snake it, Gramps. They were jug-heavies, see?--rooted against the Oliver one night, an’ managed to crack a cannonball gopher, takin’ it on the heel-an’-toe in a fourth of July which--Too deep for you, Theoretical Criminologist? Well, they were safe-robbers, see!

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[Carolyn Jones, Existential Morticia, was BOTD in 1930. She showed up in WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953), HOUSE OF WAX (1953), INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956), and EATEN ALIVE (1976). Still the only person ever nominated for an Oscar for portraying An Existentialist, in THE BACHELOR PARTY (1957).]

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[Diane Johnson, novelist and Pulitzer finalist, only wrote one screenplay, but it was a memorable one. She worked as a guest editor at Mademoiselle for a month in 1953 alongside Sylvia Plath, the gig that inspired The Bell Jar! Happy 91st birthday to Diane.]

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[RIP Lulu Roman, 78. Billed as “The World’s Biggest Go-Go Dancer” at Jack Ruby’s nightclubs in Dallas, she was discovered by Buck Owens and became a regular on Hee Haw and Hee Haw Honeys. Lulu recovered from drug addiction to become a gospel singer.]

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Twenty-four fish-eyes, Gramps--and not the ghost of a human smile in a carload.

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Oh, yes. Well, none o’ all these jerks and--and female jerkesses was at the buildin’ that night Ibstone was bumped--knowedly so, I mean--provedly so, I mean, Gramps--nobody but the sky-pilot and his sourpuss sister, the sawbones downstairs, an’ me. Yep, I was there, God help me!

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A Swodock hussy called Svenda Ulf, who always dyed her hair black and pretended always to be a Roosian gal named Olga Russakoff. Screwball, that’s all. For--but what’s the diff? She had a perfect alibi for the murder hour, though it cost a marrit German butcher up town his wife! For he--where am I?

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[Happy 95th birthday to Lynn Hamilton, Fred's girlfriend Donna on Sanford and Son and Verdie on The Waltons. Also in SHADOWS (1958), BUCK AND THE PREACHER (1972), LADY SINGS THE BLUES (1972), LEADBELLY (1976), and everybody's least favorite Russ Meyer epic THE SEVEN MINUTES (1971).]

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What better day to launch a Bluesky account than our birthday? We turn 225 today! 🎂 🥳 Here's a brief summary of the Library's history, courtesy of Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress. www.loc.gov/about/histor...

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[It's William Castle's birthday! The Master exuberantly reads "The Tell-Tale Heart," for Hanna-Barbera Records (!), and for you. He should have done more acting.] archive.org/details/will...

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[Come see the Slow Poisoner for free at Nivessa Records on Hollywood Boulevard this Saturday!]

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LOL "ARTFORUM AND NOW [AND NOW VULTURE WHATEVER THAT IS] CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO KEEP THESE LISTS PUBLISHED AND AVAILABLE"

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[Ashes of WIlly Ley, proponent of rocketry and cryptozoology, consultant on DIE FRAU IM MOND (1929), found in a can in a Manhattan basement.] www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/n...

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What is a floof lion? This is a floof lion.

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[I imagine that Charles Schultz never authorized the use of Snoopy's image to sell FANNY HILL MEETS THE RED BARON (1968). The Crest Theatre in South Sioux City burned to the ground shortly after running this bill; Instant Snoopy Karma?]

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More better than snow--what you like best--Swissy Steak, Irish Stewy, corns and beef? All taste better from tablecloth wash ironed white as pear blossom by Sam Sing. Last January we lay tablecloth beside snowfall. Our tablecloth more better whiter than snow.

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[Happy Birthday John! Here's the John Waters list of the ten best movies of the year. For the past 24 years. Watch all 240 this year and restore your faith in cinema, or go mad.] joeclark.org/dossiers/joh...

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And so it’s Sebastian Sixsmith, Cat, whose interests are really involved in the Zicky case. Whaddey know!

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[SINNERS (2025) includes Buddy Guy himself, and performances of Charley Patton's "Pony Blues" (1929) and Geeshie Wiley's "Pick Poor Robin Clean" (1930), both originally recorded for Paramount, a division of the Wisconsin Chair Company. Here's 800 Wisconsin Chair tracks.] archive.org/details/para...

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