Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography Of The Silent Film Comedian, 1887-1933
Walt at Random (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Full disclosure: this two-DVD, 35-short set was a gift from Mill Creek Entertainment, one of several they sent me along with a replacement disc, for free, with no request or expectation. It’s not a set I would have ordered, since I’ve already seen six of the nine sets of shorts (as Disc 1 and side [...]
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
FROM MTV.COM: Dating all the way back to names like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fatty Arbuckle, Shirley Temple and the Little Rascals, it seems like young overnight Hollywood sensations have been around for as long as Edward Cullen has been a vampire. Some have navigated the choppy waters of fame and gone on to [...]
Pipany & the Poltisko Memoirs. (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Golly, it's so dark here again today. In fact we have had a mix of beautiful sunshine and such gloom over the past few days that I will scatter a few pictures of bright autumnal leaves glowing like jewels to stop the rest of my light-deprived pictures tipping you all into a state of deepest depression. It's been such a good half term holiday so far with the start consisting of Dave's birthday weekend....
freemovietag - free online movies (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Benny Hill was always best at quasi-silent slapstick, so it’s no surprise that some of the best stuff on The Best of Benny Hill seems to owe more to the work of Mack Sennett and Fatty Arbuckle than to mainstream TV comedy. It may also be no coincidence that, unusually, this release began life in the cinema. There’s some classic material on offer here: the extended opening item, “Lower...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
In the early 1900s, Long Beach was churning out films, with actors such as Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and 'Baby Marie' Osborne. As a heavyweight contender four decades ago, 6-foot-6 Jack O'Halloran battled such tough hombres as George Foreman, Ken Norton and Cleveland Williams.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Here's a look back at celebrity sex scandals: Before there was Roman Polanski, there was Fatty Arbuckle. Before David Letterman, Hugh Grant.
Four Color Commentary (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
In 1920, The Kinema Comic [book] was published each Wednesday in London, and featured a silent movie comedian like Fatty Arbuckle, Snub Pollard or Mabel Normand. Mabel who? Mabel was the then "queen of comedy" and the 'female [Charlie] Chaplin". She also modeled for artist James Montgomery Flagg and became one of artist Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson Girls". If you are scratching...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
New York artist and curator Zoe Beloff will introduce this traveling film program extracted from her ongoing exhibit at the Coney Island Museum. She'll screen a Fatty Arbuckle short, in which the rotund, libidinous comic visits Coney Island, and explain the CIAPS, a real organization that was founde...
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
The Roman Polanski travesty reminds me of the Fatty Arbuckle scandal of 1920s Hollyweird. But, Fatty's rape victim, who died, wasn't thirteen and, at trial, he was aquitted. And the industry and its journalist sycophants didn't line up to excuse...
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle and Al St. John. Silent screen giants, 1917.Hollywood's patriarchal licenseHis artistic defenders cling to the slim excuses the situation affords. It was a youthful indiscretion. It was, but not for Polanski.By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / October 1, 2009Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle was Buster Keaton’s close friend. Arbuckle had rescued Keaton from Vaudeville, bringing...
*Dj Del-Boi* (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Benny Hill was always best at quasi-silent slapstick, so it’s no surprise that some of the best stuff on The Best of Benny Hill seems to owe more to the work of Mack Sennett and Fatty Arbuckle than to mainstream TV comedy. It may also be no coincidence that, unusually, this release began life in the cinema. There’s some classic material on offer here: the extended opening item, “Lower...
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Now I’m not one who buys into the “cult of the expert” in every area of our lives, but neither do experts get degrees in law, engineering, medicine, etc. because those things are completely areas of common sense. So when Whoopi Goldberg says that Roman Polanski’s attack on a 13-year old girl should be [...]
Thomas Hawk Digital Connection (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
On Saturday night I joined six other photographers from the DeleteMe Uncensored Group on Flickr and spent the evening exploring the former Byron Hot Springs Resort in Byron, CA. This was our fifth recent DMU outing and one of the best yet. Plug1, Jeremy Brooks, Ivan Makarov, DLH65, Rumnose, funkandjazz, and myself all [...]
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Roman Polanski behaved badly in 1970s Hollywood. He wasn't alone The arrest of Roman Polanski takes us all back to the movie business's not-so-secret history of shame, the "Hollywood Babylon" era which lasted from the beginning of the 20th century to around the 1970s – or maybe longer. It tended to involve sexual misdemeanours, crazy and illegal behaviour, drugs, murder, and biddable...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Compared with Spygate the actions of Renault have taken the Formula One to a new level of depravity.
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