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He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Victor Sjöström

August 24th 2024

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Films Watched in 2023:

38. He Who Gets Slapped (1924) - Dir.  Victor Sjöström

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2023: Earl Boen, attore e doppiatore statunitense. Sposò l’attrice Carole Kean. (n.1941) 2022: Kim Mi-soo, attrice e modella sudcoreana, star della serie Disney+ “Snowdrop”. (n.1992) 2021: John Richardson, attore britannico, maggiormente attivo nel cinema italiano. Fu sposato con l’attrice giamaicana Martine Beswick. (n. 1934) 2018: Marina Ripa di Meana, Maria Elide Punturieri, detta Marina,…

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Marc Cohn - Ghost train

Music

Music Video

Artist

Marc Cohn

Composer

Marc Cohn

Lyricist

Marc Cohn

Produced

Marc Cohn Ben Wisch

Credit

Marc Cohn – Lead vocals, electric piano, backing vocals John Leventhal – Guitars, bass, six-string bass, Drum programming, shaker Kenny White – Backing vocals Dennis McDermott – Drums Bashiri Johnson – Percussion Frank Floyd – Backing vocals Milt Grayson – Backing vocals Frank Simms – Backing vocals

Released

February 12 1991

Streaming

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Stex Appreciation Month Day 12: Hoppers

Favourite Actor?

Hopper 1: Dewayne Adams Hopper 2: Jason Guest Hopper 3: Marc McFadyen

Favourite Song/Scenes?

Right Place Right Time is fun <3

Favourite Costumes?

Uhhh the Bochum ones I guess?

Favourite Ships/Friendships?

I have crack ships but nothing too serious... but friendship wise, they would be friends with the other freight.

Headcanons?

I headcanon that they’re that interested in all the racing stuff more than the other freight.

Unpopular Opinion?

Yeah they're cringefails but I have a soft spot for them still.

Photo 1: Jason Guest as Hopper 2, Marc McFadyen as Hopper 3, Garry Lee as Hopper 1 - Bochum 2012. Photo 2: Cyrus Brandon as Hopper 2, Fraser Fraser as Hopper 1, Jack Greaves as Hopper 3 - Bochum 2015. Photo 3: Dennis Spee as Hopper 2, Cyrus Brandon as Hopper 1, Tom Nihill as Hopper 3 - Bochum 2017. Photo 4: Craig McDermott as Hopper 3, Andrew Millar as Hopper 1, Adam Floyd as Hopper 2 - UK Tour 2004. Photo 5: Rob Nurse as Hopper 3, Ben Harrold as Hopper 2, Damian Winter Higgins as Hopper 1 - UK Tour 2007.

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A Lon Chaney Double Feature

Norma Shearer and Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström, 1924)

Cast: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King, Marc McDermott, Ford Sterling, Tully Marshall. Screenplay: Carey Wilson, Victor Sjöström; titles: Marian Ainslee; based on a play by Leonid Andreyev. Cinematography: Milton Moore. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Hugh Wynn.

He Who Gets Slapped is not a film for coulrophobes (people with a fear of clowns). It's crawling with them, performing antics that are supposed to be, to judge from the hilarity they induce in the audiences shown in the film, side-splittingly funny. The film seems to be based on the highly dubious premise that watching someone get slapped repeatedly is one of the funniest things ever. (There may be people who think so, to judge from the perennial popularity of the Three Stooges.) The whole movie is an artificial concoction, anyway, and only the brilliance of Lon Chaney gives it some grounding in real-life feeling. It was one of the films that launched the MGM studios on the road to Hollywood dominance, and the first one to feature Leo the Lion in the credits. It's also a film that contemporary audiences should watch to see the young Norma Shearer, when she was at her freshest and most natural. In He Who Gets Slapped, her love interest is John Gilbert. It was only after the advent of sound that Shearer's husband, MGM's creative director Irving G. Thalberg, decided to make her into a great lady, the cinematic equivalent of Katharine Cornell, putting her into remakes of Broadway hits like The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin, 1934), which had starred Cornell, or Strange Interlude (Robert Z. Leonard, 1932), which had featured another theatrical diva, Lynn Fontanne. She is barely in her 20s in He Who Gets Slapped, however, and she's delightful, with no trace of the diva to come.

Lon Chaney and Loretta Young in Laugh, Clown, Laugh

Laugh, Clown, Laugh, Herbert Brenon, 1928

Cast: Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young, Cissy Fitzgerald, Nils Asther, Gwen Lee. Screenplay: Elizabeth Meehan; titles: Joseph Farnham; based on a play by David Belasco and Tom Cushing. Cinematography: James Wong Howe. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Marie Halvey.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh puts him in clown makeup again, but the film is a grand showcase for Chaney, whose reputation as the man of a thousand faces was somewhat misleading. He had one well-worn face that, no matter how much he distorted or disguised it, shone through. Here he's given an opportunity to perform without disguise through much of the film, and the range of expressions available to him is astonishing. The leading lady is 14-year-old Loretta Young. That she often looks her age is one of the more disturbing things about the film, in which she's supposed to be in love with both Chaney, who was 45, and the improbably pretty Nils Asther, who was 31. The cinematography is by James Wong Howe. Laugh, Clown, Laugh was eligible for Oscar nominations in the first year of the Academy Awards, and Chaney should have received one. The closest the film came to an award was the one that Joseph Farnham received for title writing (the one and only time the award was presented). But Farnham's award was for the body of his work over the nomination period, and not for a particular film.

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Big splash

◊ KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN'S TOE (CLOSED)

◊ KYRA SEDGWICK'S TOE (LEGGY)

◊ SIMON COWELL'S TOE (VEGETAL)

◊ KRISTA ALLEN'S TOE (CIGAR BOX)

◊ CARMEN ELECTRA'S TOE (HERBAL)

◊ DIANNA AGRON'S TOE (SMOKEY)

◊ DANIELLE STAUB'S TOE (FULL)

◊ ALICIA KEYS'S TOE (CASSIS)

◊ MADONNA'S TOE (RAISINY)

◊ LAUREN CONRAD'S TOE (CAT PEE)

◊ MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY'S TOE (LEGGY)

◊ ABBIE CORNISH'S TOE (CORKED)

◊ KIM KARDASHIAN'S TOE (CONNECTED)

◊ JORDANA BREWSTER'S TOE (HEAVY)

◊ RAMONA SINGER'S TOE (UNOAKED)

◊ TIM GUNN'S TOE (ELEGANT)

◊ ANDY COHEN'S TOE (TIGHT)

◊ NATASHA BEDINGFIELD'S TOE (CHOCOLATY)

◊ TRAVIS BARKER'S TOE (VANILLIN)

◊ JENNY MCCARTHY'S TOE (TANNIC)

◊ CHER'S TOE (LEES)

◊ NICOLE SCHERZINGER'S TOE (STEELY)

◊ MARC ANTHONY'S TOE (HARD)

◊ TIFFANI THIESSEN'S TOE (BALANCED)

◊ CHRISTIAN BALE'S TOE (GREEN)

◊ SHARON OSBOURNE'S TOE (ELEGANT)

◊ CALEB FOLLOWILL'S TOE (ALCOHOLIC)

◊ JASON ALDEAN'S TOE (SPICY)

◊ ZACHARY QUINTO'S TOE (COMPLEX)

◊ EMMA WATSON'S TOE (SMOKEY)

◊ CAITLYN JENNER'S TOE (BALANCED)

◊ BRANDY NORWOOD'S TOE (TART)

◊ LISA MARIE PRESLEY'S TOE (CHOCOLATY)

◊ SEAL'S TOE (UNOAKED)

◊ KELLIE PICKLER'S TOE (COARSE)

◊ SPENCER PRATT'S TOE (UNCTUOUS)

◊ MARK SALLING'S TOE (REFINED)

◊ ALEXANDER LUDWIG'S TOE (HARD)

◊ DAISY DE LA HOYA'S TOE (COMPLEX)

◊ NICK LACHEY'S TOE (CONCENTRATED)

◊ SHAILENE WOODLEY'S TOE (HERBAL)

◊ VAMPIRE WEEKEND'S TOE (VANILLIN)

◊ BARRY ZITO'S TOE (SILKY)

◊ BETH OSTROSKY STERN'S TOE (COMPLEX)

◊ ANNA KENDRICK'S TOE (HARD)

◊ ALICIA SILVERSTONE'S TOE (BUTTERY)

◊ DEAN MCDERMOTT'S TOE (UNCTUOUS)

◊ KATE MOSS'S TOE (BALANCED)

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In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world’s greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers… a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-and-roll museum some 300 miles away. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: JB: Jack Black KG: Kyle Gass Lee: JR Reed Dio: Ronnie James Dio Open Mic Host: Paul F. Tompkins Lil’ JB: Troy Gentile Security Guard: Ned Bellamy Security Guard: Fred Armisen Car Chase Cop / Gang Leader: Kirk Ward Truck Stop Waitress: Amy Poehler The Stranger: Tim Robbins Satan: Dave Grohl Guitar Center Guy: Ben Stiller Girl: Lara Everly Girl: Brittany Eldridge Girl: Melissa-Anne Davenport Gang Member: John Ennis Gang Member: V.J. Foster Gang Member: Jay Johnston Drunk Frat Dude: Colin Hanks Al’s Bar Waitress: Stephanie Erb Gorgeous Woman: Amy Adams Tattooed Biker: Milos Milicevic Ecstatic Woman: Molly Bryant Poopy Guy: Michael Rivkin Stand Up Comic: Gregg Turkington Exploding Head Guy: Patrick M. Walsh Fainting Woman: Bevin Kaye KG’s Mother: Evie Peck Young KG: Mason Knight Bully: Erik Walker Betty Black: Cynthia Ettinger Billy Black: Andrew Lewis Caldwell Tarot Card Reader: Laura Milligan Frat Boy #1 (uncredited): Jason Segel Bud Black (uncredited): Meat Loaf Sasquatch (uncredited): John C. Reilly Film Crew: Casting: Jeanne McCarthy Executive Producer: Georgia Kacandes Songs: Jack Black Stunts: Jack Gill Executive Producer: Ben Stiller Original Music Composer: John King Makeup Designer: Barney Burman Second Unit Director of Photography: Paul Hughen Supervising Sound Editor: Elmo Weber Stunt Double: Cole S. McKay Visual Effects Supervisor: David D. Johnson Casting: Juel Bestrop Executive Producer: Cale Boyter Stunts: Mic Rodgers Songs: Kyle Gass Writer: Liam Lynch Producer: Stuart Cornfeld Editor: David Rennie Executive Producer: Toby Emmerich Executive In Charge Of Production: Erik Holmberg Second Assistant Director: Heather Grierson Production Design: Martin Whist Sound Effects Editor: Derek Vanderhorst Director of Photography: Robert Brinkmann Executive Producer: Richard Brener Original Music Composer: Andrew Gross Second Unit Director: Rick Avery Supervising Sound Editor: David Bach First Assistant Director: Milos Milicevic Stunts: Doug Coleman Stunts: Tim Trella Stunt Driver: Angelique Midthunder Art Department Coordinator: Mike Piccirillo Stunts: Robert Chapin Set Decoration: Don Diers Costume Designer: Dayna Pink Stunts: Terry Jackson Stunt Double: John Ashker Special Effects Makeup Artist: Toni G Stunts: Tom Elliott Special Effects Makeup Artist: Justin Stafford Special Effects Makeup Artist: Mike Smithson Stunt Double: Rick Miller Stunts: Larry Rippenkroeger Stunts: Sean Graham Art Direction: Maria Baker Stunts: Ian Quinn Script Supervisor: Pamela Alch Stunts: Brian Machleit Sound Effects Editor: Clayton Weber Still Photographer: Zade Rosenthal Stunts: Frank Torres Aerial Director of Photography: David B. Nowell Hair Department Head: Linda D. Flowers Key Hair Stylist: Merribelle Anderson Makeup Artist: Ralis Kahn Hairstylist: Yeşim “Shimmy” Osman Sound Effects Editor: Marc Glassman Visual Effects: Brent M. Bowen Camera Operator: Michael FitzMaurice Sound Effects Editor: Orada Jusatayanond Costume Supervisor: Hope Slepak Stunts: Dean Bailey Stunts: Eliza Coleman Makeup Department Head: Kate Shorter Stunt Coordinator: Scotty Richards Production Supervisor: Ralph Bertelle First Assistant Camera: Thomas Vandermillen Stunt Coordinator: Brian Avery Visual Effects: John Coats Stunts: Kevin Abercrombie Special Effects Makeup Artist: Scott Stoddard Stunts: Joni Avery Stunt Driver: Ed McDermott II Special Effects Makeup Artist: Michael Marino Second Second Assistant Director: Velvet Andrews-Smith Steadicam Operator: Jon Myers Stunt Driver: Jody Hart Stunts: Roger Richman Second Second Assistant Director: Ivan Kraljević Stunts: Danny Wynands Stunts: Jeff Brockton Stunt Double: Tad Griffith Stunts: Buck McDancer Special Effects Coordinator: Andy Weder Stunt...

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A Christmas Carol Holiday Season: "A Christmas Carol" (1910 silent short film)

This silent Christmas Carol, only slightly longer than ten minutes, is the second oldest surviving film version of Dickens' novella and the oldest complete one. (A British film titled Scrooge from 1901 also survives, but is missing its opening and closing scenes.) Produced by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Studio, it's nowhere close to being a definitive Carol, but it's a very interesting historical artifact, and an enjoyable one too.

Dickens' narrative is condensed in a way that suits the short format, but which no adaptation could get away with today due to the story's sheer familiarity. In place of the traditional three spirits, Scrooge is visited by a single "Spirit of Christmas," a jolly giant in festive robes who chiefly resembles Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Present, but with the long white hair and androgyny of the Ghost of Christmas Past. Nor do they ever leave Scrooge's bedroom. Instead of visiting different times and places, Scrooge is shown transparent visions which appear and fade. Tiny Tim makes just a cameo appearance in the Cratchits' house, with his name never even mentioned and his illness never addressed. And in Christmas Yet to Come, in place of the book's "mystery" of the hated dead man's identity, Scrooge sees himself die, with a maid coldly stealing a ring from his finger. Still, there's room for a little bit of story expansion. Rather than already being married, Scrooge's nephew Fred has a sweetheart whose father refuses to let them wed because Fred is too poor. But in the end, the redeemed Scrooge makes Fred his new business partner, which will give him the income to support a wife. He then takes the happy young couple to deliver gifts to the Cratchits' house on Christmas morning, where at first the whole family comically thinks Scrooge has gone mad. As we'll see, this isn't the last Carol film where these embellishments will be used.

Though the camera is static, and the film direction and acting are stagy by modern standards, this short still boasts a good atmosphere and a strong cast. Marc McDermott is excellently cast as Scrooge: tall, commanding, effective both in his meanness and in his ultimate warmth and cheer, and only slightly melodramatic now and then. The only other credited actor is Charles S. Ogle (who, earlier in the same year, was the first actor ever to play Frankenstein's monster onscreen) as Bob Cratchit, but all the performers fill their roles well.

This Carol might be eclipsed by later versions, but no one can deny that it's interesting, or that it has charm.

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Marc McDermott-Mary Pickford "Dorothea Vernon" (Dorothy Vernon) 1924, de Marshall Neilan.

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A Merry Christmas to you all, from Carlyle Blackwell, Mary Pickford, John Bunny, Lillian Walker, Edwin August, Earle Williams, Marc MacDermott, Alice Joyce, G. M. Anderson, Crane Wilbur, Mabel Trunnelle, Francis Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Warren Kerrigan, Wally Van, Clara Young, Maurice Costello, and from all the other plays (whom Mr. Gallagher could not find room for), and also from the Motion Picture Magazine.

Illustration by Jack Gallagher in Motion Picture Magazine, January 1915. Internet Archive.

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Niagara Falls in Winter by Marc McDermott

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2023: Earl Boen, attore e doppiatore statunitense. Principalmente noto per aver interpretato il dottor Peter Silberman nella saga di Terminator fu altresì noto come doppiatore di vari personaggi animati. Nel 1970 sposò l’attrice Carole Kean. È morto a causa di un tumore ai polmoni, diagnosticatogli pochi mesi prima. (n.1941) 2022: Kim Mi-soo, attrice e modella sudcoreana, star della serie Disney+…

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Cold Calm (photoset: by Marc McDermott)

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An Unsullied Shield (1913) A Silent Film Review

An Unsullied Shield (1913) A Silent Film Review

A wastrel son uses up his own money and so he forges his mother’s signature to get more. However, the family portrait gallery comes to life and the figures take turns berating their descendant for sullying the clan crest. (more…)

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25 Days Of A Christmas Carol Bonus December 27: A Christmas Carol (1910)

directed by J. Searle Dawley, starring Marc McDermott

The ghost of Marley, who was like unto Scrooge, warns him of his punishment hereafter unless he becomes a different man.