The One Liners #365
16 years ago
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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General McChrystal
A Life Lover and Blithe Spirit
Admiral Mike Mullen
AKA, Mr. Sunshine; blithe spirit and tree hugger
Oh, so that's the problem!!
Obamarama
OK---we know you're on an arrogant, deceitful power trip---you can lower that chin already!!
TONY HAYWARD
UPPER CLASS TWIT
Krishna Morty
Stop the Cosmos, I Wanna get Off!!
Son of Carnak the Magnificent
All-Knowing, All-Seeing Mystic from the East
He was Small Potatoes
Jean Simmons
My favorite brunette---for me she was the epitome of feminine beauty, style and class! I told my son she had died and he said, "What the guy from Kiss??"I sobbed.
The Rockefeller Descendants
Soupy Sales
Love in the Afternoon
The Cats from Brazil
Coming SOON to a theater near you...
He Cut Quite A Figure---in fact several of them!
My Blog List
The BI-POLAR EXPRESS TV SHOW
Views From Where I Sit!
The original fab Four
4 comments:
IMO in terms of sheer laugh content, THE funniest comic of the silent screen.
Also, the Lloyd Estate is gonna be on this YT posting like pancake makeup on a silent comic!
Listen to knowledge...
I would think they would be pleased that Lloyd would be exposed to generations who never heard of him.
PS--I recall your yeoman efforts to convnce me that he was better than Chaplin.
To some extent it's apples and orangutans, but I have come to greatly appreciate Lloyd, and am mindful of your point that he's all the more funnier for just being your average, everyday guy, whom it's easier for us to identify with.
A film historian recently told me that you've never experienced Lloyd until you've seen him with a theater audience (which I have not).
He said the admiration for his film technique will triple hearing laugh dove-tailing into laugh, into a howl like a finely tuned comedy machine.
Lloyd was very big on previews before release, and it showed.
Yes, the "Average Guy" personna keeps him fresh today. Charlie and Buster were grotesqueries you'd probably never meet in real life.
But Chaplin deserves all the kudos he can get as the one who led the way, and it must be remembered that even Harold started out impersonating him with his "Lonesome Luke" character.
I mention the Lloyd Estate because having corresponded with Suzanne Lloyd, his granddaughter and currently in charge, I can assure you she is very much business before pleasure.
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