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Sep. 25th, 2018 02:12 pmThe Sprawling Obsessive Career of Fritz Lang “Film historian David Kalat once proposed rules for a Fritz Lang drinking game: Whenever a Lang film shows an angry mob or a woman in a nightgown, everybody takes a shot.” Angry mobs definitely, but in the movies I’ve seen I can only recall one scene of a woman in a nightgown.
While looking up the awesome stunt rider Dorothy Herbert (who I know from her role in The Mysterious Doctor Satan) I came across the also-awesome “proletarian art collectors” Dorothy and Herbert Vogel.
Watched the trailer for Stan and Ollie (2018) several times. I’m usually wary of fat suits for both aesthetic (they look unconvincing) and political (they’re arguably pretty close to wearing blackface) reasons; a portrayal of a historical figure whose appearance is sufficiently well-known to require make-up anyway? might be an edge case. OTOH I’m *really* impressed with Steve Coogan’s look as Stan Laurel – he’s got fewer prosthetics to hide behind (think they might have built out his ears) and he is absolutely nailing the eyes and mouth. What I’m saying is I still want to see this movie, though it looks to me as though they exaggerated tensions between the team in order to create a plot.
Also, yesterday I learned that Jack Benny’s cameo in It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was originally written for Stan Laurel, which explains why the character wears a derby and drives a 1930s car (Laurel turned it down, having retired the act when Babe died).
While looking up the awesome stunt rider Dorothy Herbert (who I know from her role in The Mysterious Doctor Satan) I came across the also-awesome “proletarian art collectors” Dorothy and Herbert Vogel.
Watched the trailer for Stan and Ollie (2018) several times. I’m usually wary of fat suits for both aesthetic (they look unconvincing) and political (they’re arguably pretty close to wearing blackface) reasons; a portrayal of a historical figure whose appearance is sufficiently well-known to require make-up anyway? might be an edge case. OTOH I’m *really* impressed with Steve Coogan’s look as Stan Laurel – he’s got fewer prosthetics to hide behind (think they might have built out his ears) and he is absolutely nailing the eyes and mouth. What I’m saying is I still want to see this movie, though it looks to me as though they exaggerated tensions between the team in order to create a plot.
Also, yesterday I learned that Jack Benny’s cameo in It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was originally written for Stan Laurel, which explains why the character wears a derby and drives a 1930s car (Laurel turned it down, having retired the act when Babe died).
