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Gary Johnson wrote:I'll take a wonderful storyteller any day over a fact-checker.

I dare you to post that comment in the NitrateVille thread about silent star "tragedies".

Jim

Somewhere he is quoted as saying everything he knew about film comedy, he learned from Chase. Or maybe that is apocryphal. Perhaps someone has the book Smile When the Raindrops Fall within reach and can check that source.

Jim

Is this set captioned?

Jim

I haven't had time to watch the Youtube excerpt all the way through. Starts off kind of dull, but tosses off a great gag to close the opening sequence (deprived of arrows and slingshots, the short guy hits his target with a spit). Don't think I'll be spending $80 getting the set, even though it seem...

Interesting looking set. Take note that it is Region 2.

Jim

What films will be on the set?

Jim

Richard, you're the guy who declared we don't need smiley faces on this site because we can all figure out when our legs are being pulled. Yet you apparently believe I was dead serious in asking if you and Gary brawled. I guess subtle wit is over the head of anybody who reveres Ham and Bud. (Insert ...

Richard M Roberts wrote:Though we've bantered and argued through the written word on many forums and privately over the years, we've actually spoken face to face only once or twice, and that was just at this last Slapsticon.



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Were blows exchanged on that occasion?

Jim

Steve Massa wrote:And on INDIEWIRE. Maybe some hipsters will be induced to pick up copies.

Do hipsters consider Leonard Maltin hip? I mean, unironically?

Jim

Richard M Roberts wrote:

Pasquale Ventura wrote:Must have your evil twin brother!

I AM the evil twin brother!



RICHARD M ROBERTS

You mean somewhere out there lurks a GOOD Richard M. Roberts?

Jim