L0st_in_the_Stars
L0st_in_the_Stars OP t1_j6g6hsx wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera. by L0st_in_the_Stars
You're repeating 100+ year old tabloid lies about him. The jury that found Arbuckle not guilty of manslaughter connected with the death of Virginia Rappe issued the following statement after the verdict:
"Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. We feel that a great injustice has been done him. We feel also that it was only our plain duty to give him this exoneration, under the evidence, for there was not the slightest proof adduced to connect him in any way with the commission of a crime.
He was manly throughout the case, and told a straightforward story on the witness stand, which we all believed.
The happening at the hotel was an unfortunate affair for which Arbuckle, so the evidence shows, was in no way responsible.
We wish him success.…Roscoe Arbuckle is entirely innocent and free from all blame."
L0st_in_the_Stars OP t1_j6g2yen wrote
Reply to comment by cocoqwer in Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera. by L0st_in_the_Stars
He does. St. John was a nephew of Arbuckle. He became a versatile comic actor. In his later career, he often played an irascible sidekick in Westerns.
L0st_in_the_Stars OP t1_iu6usb8 wrote
Reply to Ted Koppel, 1980. Nightline started as a daily update during the Iran hostage crisis. In the decades after Walter Cronkite retired, Koppel continued the practice of thorough, factual reporting. by L0st_in_the_Stars
Scientists are still debating whether the ozone hole was caused by the spray needed to maintain his hair helmet.
L0st_in_the_Stars OP t1_iu6s6n1 wrote
Reply to comment by zgrizz in Ted Koppel, 1980. Nightline started as a daily update during the Iran hostage crisis. In the decades after Walter Cronkite retired, Koppel continued the practice of thorough, factual reporting. by L0st_in_the_Stars
Cronkite had the advantage of working in the era when the networks didn't look at their news divisions as profit centers.
L0st_in_the_Stars t1_iu6r3fk wrote
Before Sanford and Son, Redd was mainly known as a dirty comic, whose records were sold under the counter. After he got his hit television show, his live act would consist of a clean first half, and then a filthy second half after warning the easily offended to leave.
L0st_in_the_Stars OP t1_iqnpjsl wrote
Reply to comment by Theblackswapper1 in Harpo Marx and Amelia Earhart on the set of Horse Feathers, 1932. by L0st_in_the_Stars
Gilbert Gottfried used to do an imitation of the elderly Groucho, that mostly consisted of explaining that the Marx Brothers continued to work into their later years "because Chico needed the money."
L0st_in_the_Stars OP t1_iqmfb46 wrote
Reply to comment by _stef_lezy_ in Harpo Marx and Amelia Earhart on the set of Horse Feathers, 1932. by L0st_in_the_Stars
Yeah. Harpo said that he quit school in the 2nd grade, after bullies threw him out of a classroom window.
L0st_in_the_Stars OP t1_iqmaxq7 wrote
As best I can make it out, the inscription reads: "Harpistically Yours. xxxx Harpo Marx".
From all I've read about him, including his delightful autobiography Harpo Speaks, Harpo was one of the sweetest and happiest people ever. He enjoyed a contented marriage with four adopted children. When he was asked by George Burns in 1948 how many children he planned to adopt, he answered, "I’d like to adopt as many children as I have windows in my house. So when I leave for work, I want a kid in every window, waving goodbye."
L0st_in_the_Stars t1_ja2vz4x wrote
Reply to Pitkin Ave. in Brooklyn, 1953 by Maureen0569
Kishke, in the Jewish context, is cow intestine stuffed with flour, flavored with beef fat and spices. Slavic and other East European cultures have kishkes that use pig innards. At the time, Brownsville was a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Pitkin Avenue was its main commercial street.