I remember my mom taking us to see Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers (ok, not silent but old) when we were kids and laughing and laughing and laughing...
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I remember my mom taking us to see Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers (ok, not silent but old) when we were kids and laughing and laughing and laughing...
I guess that's why we ended up together. :)
Katie, I thought you and yer mom ended up together forother reasons. . . .?
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?
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I remember my mom taking us to see Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers (ok, not silent but old) when we were kids and laughing and laughing and laughing...
I guess that's why we ended up together. :)
Ms. Who agrees: we defy anyone to listen to this without smiling ear to ear. Thank you, Myth!
Oops that deletion was me, sorry; I had a comment to leave for Mr. Muleboy too but this window was still open and, well, one thing led to another, and i accidentally left it here instead. In hindsight it would've been easier to just let the small comment stay here but hindsight is ... 20/30, 20/15?
I was this way the first time I saw Birth of a Nation too. . . . .
The second deletion, btw, was me.
Solidarity, Who!
Katie said:
I remember my mom taking us to see Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers (ok, not silent but old) when we were kids and laughing and laughing and laughing...
I guess that's why we ended up together. :)
Katie, I thought you and yer mom ended up together forother reasons. . . .?
Fabulous and oh so true!! The silent comedies were so pure that they reach the child all of us.
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