Striving always for balance in our coverage of the ongoing feud between silent film greats Lon Chaney and Douglas Fairbanks, we here at the Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards present a movie poster of the latter's nominated feature, The Iron Mask.
that no-talent effer Lon Chaney [biggest waste o' Colorado air in the last 150 years . . . .] gets his picture posted, whilst I wait, and wait, and wait. . . .
well, you get the drift.
Thanks for looking out for me.
I'm unfairly pigeonholed and marginalized because of my amazing athletic abilities, and because I porked the most famous broad in the US of A, beloved by All. And by all, I mean Lon Chaney.
Yeah, I would have to say that although both movies involve aging men confronting their mortality, "The Iron Mask" is the polar opposite of "Wild Strawberries." I can't imagine Douglas Fairbanks sitting around at the end of his life reflecting on how meaningless it all was. In fact, his last words were "I've never felt better."
As well they should be considering what he and Mary Pickford had been up to all those years ...
"West Of Zanzibar" is a pretty good movie though -- cannibalism, drunk hookers, magic tricks. Reminds me of a Don Rickles show in Atlantic City ...
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
4 comments:
Whew. . . .
sorry that I seemed to blow a seam there, but
when you get nominated for a Katie and
that no-talent effer Lon Chaney [biggest waste o' Colorado air in the last 150 years . . . .] gets his picture posted, whilst I wait, and wait, and wait. . . .
well, you get the drift.
Thanks for looking out for me.
I'm unfairly pigeonholed and marginalized because of my amazing athletic abilities, and because I porked the most famous broad in the US of A, beloved by All. And by all, I mean Lon Chaney.
Ha ha ha; I had her, and you didn't.
I think that The Iron Mask is no Wild Strawberries.
But it is WAY greater than that fucking West of Zanzibar. . . . .
Yeah, I would have to say that although both movies involve aging men confronting their mortality, "The Iron Mask" is the polar opposite of "Wild Strawberries." I can't imagine Douglas Fairbanks sitting around at the end of his life reflecting on how meaningless it all was. In fact, his last words were "I've never felt better."
As well they should be considering what he and Mary Pickford had been up to all those years ...
"West Of Zanzibar" is a pretty good movie though -- cannibalism, drunk hookers, magic tricks. Reminds me of a Don Rickles show in Atlantic City ...
I knew that pussy Chaney wouldn't show his face around here again.
Time to rethink that Laugh, Clown, Laugh bullshit, isn't it, Monkey-Man?
I win! I win!
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