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Well, a look-see of the weekends nonsense on Nitratevile shows several unbelievable whiners, one in need of medication is just Shocked!!!!!! Shocked mind you!!!!!!, that 20th Century-Fox will allow only 16mm prints of their films to exist and how dare they not spend every possible penny to find furt...

No one else here is allowed to give an opinion at half past anytime...... (Go check your email) Oh baloney, you can disagree and hail SNL to the high heavens if you wish, I'm just not going to join in with you, unless you can convince me otherwise. I said SNL had its moments, but SCTV had a lot mor...

As if I thought you would ever change your position?? I'm merely expressing my likes......or is is my dislikes....I forget. Is this where I just 'watch my mouth??' If that's your idea of a good time, or we can just agree to disagree, or argue it a bunch more. Or somebody else can give an opinion. R...

Humor-wise, SCTV's strength were parody and satire. SNL's was anti-establishment. Even though both shows dug into the same talent pool of Second City, SNL had just as many National Lampoon alums on their staff, which played into the post-Watergate "fuck you" attitude that permeated the co...

Here's the first reel (all that survives) of the three-reel Vitagraph adaptation of Dickens classic starring John Bunny, which celebrates it's 101st Birthday in two days (released February 28, 1913):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Fl8ZJS8f8



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Ramis' true strength during the initial first couple of series of SCTV was in his writing. Even after he stopped appearing on camera during the second series (they weren't even called 'seasons' since they only produced one half hour a month) he was still contributing sketches until Hollywood called...

After all these years I don't know how the info of Ford working on the script of this western escaped my reading retention. Was this mentioned in McBride's bio on Ford? It was mentioned in both Mcbride and Eyman's bios I believe, but it was not a secret, Ford has a story credit on the film. Ford or...

Perhaps this program has not yet achieved status as true archaeology, but this is for anyone who remembers the anarchic joy of watching SCTV for the first time. There was a moment in time when Saturday Night Live was no longer the hippest show on television. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty2EKPv-G...

I don’t know whether the stupidity level or just the number of posts dropped over at Nitratevile today, it’s a hard call, but the main bon-mot of brainlessness was John Aldrich’s proving he knows nothing about THE LAST OUTLAW, which I must agree with David Shepard (and how often does that happen?) i...

J-U-N-K is on the Alpha Home Video DVD-R release SILENT COMEDY, VISUAL PIONEERS. It was one of my Christmas prezzies. http://www.oldies.com/product-view/7129D.html The original transfer (from a 35mm nitrate) was done by Grapevine Video, apparently that transfer has been "borrowed" for sev...