toddcarruth.com (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
“Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.” - W.C. Fields Ah yes, my little chickedee. I bet half of you reading this have no idea who W. C. Fields is/was. Feel free to click on the link above to find out more. Something about yesterday’s [...]
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
I’ve already introduced my younger sons to Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields and the Marx Brothers, and thought it was time for Buster Keaton. He’s funnier than Chaplin and Lloyd, less sentimental, more athletic and always a pleasure to watch in motion, like a thoroughbred or Fred Astaire. I was concerned about the slower pacing compared to recent films and the absence of speech -- not “silence” because...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
"Baton Bunny" (1959), Bugs Bunny's classic take on the art of the conductor, all set to a score from a full symphonic orchestra. Each Saturday we highlight a humorous and sometimes poignant video, interview, comic, or skit concerning different professions, past and present. From W.C. Fields to Rowan Atkinson, classic cartoons to Monty Python, secret tapings of Candid Camera to contemporary videos...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Among the gems in this second release from Kino: 'Way Down East' and an early W.C. Fields film. The director D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) is probably best remembered for his 1915 epic, "The Birth of a Nation," the most ambitious and commercially successful film made in the United States to that point. Unfortunately, the drama, about the Civil War and Reconstruction, is so appallingly racist in its depiction...
Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
English funnyman Ricky Gervais is promoting the DVD release of Ghost Town, and sat down for a phone interview with CNN to talk class, English humor, and misanthropy. Gervais riffs on the differences between Americans and Brits, and makes a few sweeping generalizations about his countrymen. “Ghost Town” earned generally good reviews and a decent box [...]
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Victoria: The greatest comedians of the 20th Century kept audiences laughing through the depression, two World Wars and the Baby Boom. These beloved entertainers return to the stage in this critically acclaimed one-man play.
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
The career of newscasting is actually older than you might think. The profession is ancient, in fact, as trailblazing comic Ernie Kovacs showed in this 1950s television skit. Each Saturday we highlight a humorous and sometimes poignant video, interview, comic, or skit concerning different professions, past and present. From W.C. Fields to Rowan Atkinson, classic cartoons to Monty Python, secret tapings...
The Current Buzz - Tech (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
This image of a threatening snowman is from a 1927 postcard. It was reproduced in a Smithsonian magazine feature about the history of the snowman in pop culture. From Smithsonian: While no one knows for sure when exactly the snowman began smoking a pipe and drinking hard liquor, it may have started as early as 1890, [...]
Woman Honor Thyself (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008
Soooooooooooooooo, took off half a day today..(yes, I worked..bah humbug!) , went to the beauty salon for some r & r, and to get mah hair done. Not there for 5 minutes when the “beautician”, (what do they call them these days') proceeded to drop a bottle of hair dye she was using on the customer [...]
Just Another Blog (From L. A.)™ (Free subscription) | 12/25/2008
In 1946, actor W.C. Fields died. He was 67. [Missed to this date. — Ed.] In 1959, future Beatles drummer Ringo Starr got his first set of drums as a Christmas present. He was working as an apprentice engineer at the time. In 1964, George Harrison's girlfriend, Patti Boyd, was attacked by jealous female fans at a Beatles show in London. [Didn't Eric Clapton attack her a few yrs. later? — Ed.] Forty...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 12/25/2008
Screening Room: "His Girl Friday" and "Old Fashioned Way" are part of the Screwball Comedy Holidays series. Feeling the yuletide blues? The American Cinematheque's Screwball Comedy Holidays festival at the Aero Theatre is a guaranteed cure.
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Relentlessly sentimental tearjerker succeeds solely on the charm of its stars on two and four legs.
CueTable Billiard Library (Free subscription) | 12/21/2008
From klangkrieg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kToO5B9ZME This is a restored version of W.C....
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 12/21/2008
W.C. Fields once warned never to work with animals or small children.
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 12/20/2008
Ever wonder what it takes to do Santa's job? The training the job takes is more strenuous than you might think, as this video shows. Each Saturday we highlight a humorous and sometimes poignant video, interview, comic, or skit concerning different professions, past and present. From W.C. Fields to Chris Farley, classic cartoons to Monty Python, secret tapings of Candid Camera to contemporary videos...
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icelebz | 09/18/2008
This dentist has little patience for his patients. Or anyone else in Manhattan, where he lives and works. The curmudgeonly Dr. Bertram Pincus can't stand people. He's grateful that he can tell his patients to bite down or rinse and spit or open wide because that means that they'll at least temporarily stop talking. Pincus doesn't want to listen to them. He just wants to be left alone. But when he goes
