tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post3560933567576869001..comments2024-03-16T15:13:35.663-04:00Comments on BLOG TO COMM: Christopher Stiglianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-77348558253765111462009-12-03T15:45:38.681-05:002009-12-03T15:45:38.681-05:00-- off topic --
The Onion (www.onion.com) is using...-- off topic --<br />The Onion (www.onion.com) is using three surname combinations in its American Voices section. B2C readers may recognize some of the triplets.<br />(e.g.<br />http://www.theonion.com/content/<br /> amvo/<br /> humans_biologically_disposed_to<br />=> Newman, Gilbert, Lewis<br />=> Wire;<br />http://www.theonion.com/content/<br /> amvo/chelsea_clinton_engaged<br />=> Castellano, Bloom, Sarzo<br />=> Blue Oyster Cult;<br />etc.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-43897740733928458312009-12-03T10:19:04.716-05:002009-12-03T10:19:04.716-05:00Hi, Chris.
Great to know that Craig Bell is still...Hi, Chris.<br /><br />Great to know that Craig Bell is still at it!<br /><br />Are you still without a CD player?<br /><br />I just purchased the 6-dvd "Big Band, Jazz, and Swing Shorts" box-set from the Warner Archive, and each night I've been sampling 2 or 3 of these strange pre-swing early 30s Vitaphone one-reel shorts featuring cabaret and radio stars I've never heard of, along with pre-swing bandleaders such as, say, Ben Pollack or Roger Wolfe Kahn (I also saw Kate Smith younger than I'd ever seen her, as if she were in her early 20s!). They are almost like musical versions of Educational Pictures comedy shorts. With almost every one I watch, I comment to Mary Anne, "boy, I wish Chris was here to watch this with us. He'd REALLY appreciate them!" Sometimes the "announcing"/comic relief is provided by people who seem to be right off the vaudeville stage. I keep hoping that Joe Cook's face will appear... :-) Shemp Howard (who of course was working at Vitaphone in this period--remember his classic shorts with Daphne Pollard? and his appearance in one of Fatty Arbuckle's "comeback" Vitaphone shorts)showed up in one the other night, as the overbearing manager of some radio singer.<br />Hope all is well...<br /><br />BILL<br /><br />ps, one of the shorts had a "plot" holding it together involving George Jessel (also younger than I'd ever seen him). Boy, how we need entertainers like George Jessel today!!! No one has ever filled those shoes... I remember seeing him on some tv chat show when I was a child, this elderly man with some young blonde wife in her 20s, a knowing wink in his eye and a laid-back sense of cool and a jaded "I've seen and done it all" kind of calm. I was impressed as an 8 year old!<br /><br />BillBill S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07573129431937332002noreply@blogger.com