Thursday, November 24, 2016
We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:24AM[SHARE]Filed under: Comedians, Comedy, Comedy Teams, HOLIDAYS/ FESTIVALS/ MEMORIALS/ PARADES, Laurel and Hardy, Thanksgiving, Three Stooges, W.C. Fields Tagged: Chester Conklin, Laurel and Hardy, p…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2016
A magical time was had by all at last night’s Fields Fest screening of W.C. Fields’ The Bank Dick at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, L.I., introduced by special guest Dr. H…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:48PM[SHARE]I’ve been in Jack London head-space for months, initially because I was in UTC#61’s adaptation of The Iron Heel but secondarily because that experience spurred me on to read and …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:36AM[SHARE]We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:31AM[SHARE]Today is Harpo Marx’s birthday (for more on the great silent clown, see my biographical post on the Marx Brothers). Today’s post has been germinating for a long time. It grew out…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2016
My sister seems to be missing. Today is her birthday and I have no way to wish her a happy one. I haven’t heard from her in nine months. She has no phone; she has no computer. Her own …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:12AM[SHARE]We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2016
Tomorrow night (Nov 22) at 7:30pm, Fields Fest resumes with a screening of the immortal Fields classic The Bank Dick (1940) at the Cinema Arts Center in Huntington, Long Island, introduced b…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:42PM[SHARE]This new series of posts came out of the stunning realization that I have family in all 50 U.S. states. My ancestors lived in 14 of them, all on the eastern seaboard or adjacent, and I have …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:42PM[SHARE]We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2016
We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:31AM[SHARE]It was a lovely day in NYC for yesterday’s W.C. Fields History Walk, led by Kevin Fitzpatrick, which focused on the places where W.C. Fields lived, worked and recreated in the Broadway…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 19, 2016
We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:31AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2016
Saturday, Nov. 19, 1:00-3:00 PM:Â W.C. Fields History Walk Walk in the footsteps of W.C. Fields and see where he lived, worked, and socialized. This two-hour walk is led by Kevin C. Fitzpa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:02PM[SHARE]Filed under: BROOKLYN, Hollywood (History), Movies, PLUGS, VISUAL ART Tagged: animation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Shoestring Press, Tommy Jose Strathes, vintage cartoons
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:36PM[SHARE] We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PM[SHARE]Opening tonight at the Film Forum in New York: Daughters of the Dust . Julie Dash wrote, produced and directed this film, which was the first movie by an African American woman to get a …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PM[SHARE]We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2016
We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:12PM[SHARE]We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:03AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Patsy Ruth Miller (1904-1995). Â The word “fluke” is the wrong one to use in describing Miller’s career (after all, it was far better than that o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2016
We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AM[SHARE]This new series of posts came out of the stunning realization that I have family in all 50 U.S. states. My ancestors lived in 14 of them, all on the eastern seaboard or adjacent, and I have …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2016
We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest.  For a full list upcoming live Fields Fe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:54AM[SHARE]Great news! Today Undercrank Productions releases its 4th volume of rare surviving silent films entitled Accidentally Preserved. The first three volumes consisted of home-market 16mm prints;…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2016
Today is the birthday of Eugene O’Brien (Louis O’Brien, 1880-1966). Originally from Boulder, Colorado, O’Brien studied first to be a doctor and a civil engineer before fina…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AM[SHARE]Fields Fest resumes this week with three (and a half) exciting events! Here’s what’s coming up over the next few days! Thursday, November 17, 7:00pm: Hear and Now with Rachel Cle…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2016
I have Fields Fest events coming up this week and so I have been trying to psyche myself up for how to get into a Fieldsian frame of mind from the dark funk I’ve been in since Black Tu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:18PM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Nita Naldi (Mary Dooley, 1894-1961). Naldi was the child of working class Irish parents in New York City. When her (then single) mother died in 1915, she was forced …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AM[SHARE]Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin movie Behind the Screen (1916). While made at the peak of Chaplin’s Mutual period, this comedy feels to me …
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