Mabel Normand in Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
Mabel Normand is someone I knew more as a concept than as an actual screen personality. As Mack Sennett's one-again-off-again betrothed, and his favorite leading lady at Keystone, she helped discover Charlie Chaplin and threw the screen's first custard pie. And she was a wild girl who gave good copy. ("Say anything you like, but don't say I love to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, that prissy bitch. Just say I like to pinch babies and twist their legs. And get drunk.")
I'd seen her in some early Chaplin films, typically rather disorganized affairs where she cries a lot and is almost crowded off the screen by rhubarbing clowns (Mabel's Busy Day, 1914). It was always a problem, making any impression amid the chaos of a Keystone movie, which is part of why Chaplin hated it. No room to breathe for the gags,...
Mabel Normand is someone I knew more as a concept than as an actual screen personality. As Mack Sennett's one-again-off-again betrothed, and his favorite leading lady at Keystone, she helped discover Charlie Chaplin and threw the screen's first custard pie. And she was a wild girl who gave good copy. ("Say anything you like, but don't say I love to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, that prissy bitch. Just say I like to pinch babies and twist their legs. And get drunk.")
I'd seen her in some early Chaplin films, typically rather disorganized affairs where she cries a lot and is almost crowded off the screen by rhubarbing clowns (Mabel's Busy Day, 1914). It was always a problem, making any impression amid the chaos of a Keystone movie, which is part of why Chaplin hated it. No room to breathe for the gags,...
- 5/29/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Dustin Lance Black at the Washington, D.C. premiere of J Edgar
Birthday shoutouts! Eric Dane is 39, Nick Lachey is 38, and Nikki Blonsky is 23. Eric Stonestreet will not only present the first award on tonight's Cma's, he'll also sing a musical ditty about ... Kim Kardashian. In news that is sure to make Ed Kennedy squee, Disney Channel has renewed Phineas & Ferb for a fourth season. The remake of the 1980 trash classic Mother's Day will be released in the U.S. next year, but this is a very "loose" remake, and from the description, "loose" means "in name only." After all the publicity surrounding last night's Glee, it didn't help the ratings much, and in further bad news, Raising Hope is experiencing some startling slippage. Revenge is preempted tonight, but to tide you over til next week, here's the cast having a shirtless pillow fight. Just because.
Below you can see...
Birthday shoutouts! Eric Dane is 39, Nick Lachey is 38, and Nikki Blonsky is 23. Eric Stonestreet will not only present the first award on tonight's Cma's, he'll also sing a musical ditty about ... Kim Kardashian. In news that is sure to make Ed Kennedy squee, Disney Channel has renewed Phineas & Ferb for a fourth season. The remake of the 1980 trash classic Mother's Day will be released in the U.S. next year, but this is a very "loose" remake, and from the description, "loose" means "in name only." After all the publicity surrounding last night's Glee, it didn't help the ratings much, and in further bad news, Raising Hope is experiencing some startling slippage. Revenge is preempted tonight, but to tide you over til next week, here's the cast having a shirtless pillow fight. Just because.
Below you can see...
- 11/9/2011
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Liza wandered onto the set of Fox & Friends this morning, causing a 7.8 on the gay gasp Richter scale.
Emmanuel Lewis turns 40 today. Emmanuel Lewis turns 40 today. Emmanuel Lewis turns 40 today. If you understand why all I can do is keep repeating it, then raise a glass with me to salute our lost youth. Eric Sheffer Stevens won a TV Guide Canada Soap Opera Spirit Award for As The World Turns, and LoveLure has all the details. Below you can see InTorontoTV interview Elton John and David Furnish at the Canadian premiere of Billy Elliot.
Julianne Moore will portray Sarah Palin in the HBO adaptation of the bestseller Game Change. Can it be that I'm actually excited about something concerning the half-Governor? BBC America will premiere the new season of Doctor Who on Saturday, April 23 at 9 Pm Est, with the first part of a two-parter that takes place in the U.
Emmanuel Lewis turns 40 today. Emmanuel Lewis turns 40 today. Emmanuel Lewis turns 40 today. If you understand why all I can do is keep repeating it, then raise a glass with me to salute our lost youth. Eric Sheffer Stevens won a TV Guide Canada Soap Opera Spirit Award for As The World Turns, and LoveLure has all the details. Below you can see InTorontoTV interview Elton John and David Furnish at the Canadian premiere of Billy Elliot.
Julianne Moore will portray Sarah Palin in the HBO adaptation of the bestseller Game Change. Can it be that I'm actually excited about something concerning the half-Governor? BBC America will premiere the new season of Doctor Who on Saturday, April 23 at 9 Pm Est, with the first part of a two-parter that takes place in the U.
- 3/9/2011
- by snicks
- The Backlot
DVD Playhouse—February 2010
By
Allen Gardner
Hunger (Criterion) Harrowing true story of imprisoned Ira member Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and his 1981 hunger strike protesting the British government’s refusal to recognize him, and other Ira members as political prisoners. Director Steve McQueen delivers the story with true filmmaking panache, mixing startling imagery that blends both stunning beauty and stomach-churning horror. Fassbender is absolutely brilliant in the lead. Not for the faint-of-heart, but not to be missed or, particularly, ignored. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with McQueen and Fassbender; Short documentary; 1981 episode of BBC series “Panorama” that covers the Ira hunger strike; Trailer. Widescreen. DTS-hd audio on Blu-ray.
Adam (20th Century Fox) Quirky romantic comedy about an eccentric, borderline Asperger’s Syndrome, astronomy buff (Hugh Dancy) who is drawn out of his self-imposed shell by a beautiful and sympathetic neighbor (Rose Byrne). Charming film with engaging performances by the two leads,...
By
Allen Gardner
Hunger (Criterion) Harrowing true story of imprisoned Ira member Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and his 1981 hunger strike protesting the British government’s refusal to recognize him, and other Ira members as political prisoners. Director Steve McQueen delivers the story with true filmmaking panache, mixing startling imagery that blends both stunning beauty and stomach-churning horror. Fassbender is absolutely brilliant in the lead. Not for the faint-of-heart, but not to be missed or, particularly, ignored. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with McQueen and Fassbender; Short documentary; 1981 episode of BBC series “Panorama” that covers the Ira hunger strike; Trailer. Widescreen. DTS-hd audio on Blu-ray.
Adam (20th Century Fox) Quirky romantic comedy about an eccentric, borderline Asperger’s Syndrome, astronomy buff (Hugh Dancy) who is drawn out of his self-imposed shell by a beautiful and sympathetic neighbor (Rose Byrne). Charming film with engaging performances by the two leads,...
- 2/15/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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