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Sunday, July 6, 2025

OJ Meltdown

 

Here's an oldie I found banging around in the back.  I was pretty impressed when American Journalism turned into a scene from Farenheit 451, with the talking newsheads transfixed by one person (a celebrity, OJ Simpson) on the run from the Law.  It seemed to go on for hours.  (90 minutes.)  So I made this bit.  

I don't really like doing topical commentary; it doesn't age as well as the artier stuff, and people have opinions.  So I never included this in anything.  It might have been posted here at one time.  Anyway, it is now.

OJ Meltdown (3:36) 

 PS- I guess this means we're going to do weekly audio, instead of skipping a weekend a month for written content.  Which will drop in during the week, as it occurs.  Stay tuned.

Thursday, July 3, 2025

"Building Code" Sighted

 

The Last Hurrah (1958)
 

It's on the right, under Spencer Tracy's hand.  Other examples of this phenomenon can be found on our Building Code Under Fire page.

Tony Regan in Mr Lucky (1959)

I discussed Mr Regan in an earlier post; he's one of those actors who never speaks and is supposed to be completely in the background, a cut-and-paste character in a way, like the little people in architectural drawings.  He was a casting director who found his way into a lot of "bystander" work, and is pretty recognizable once you know him.  (On the right.)

 

Mr Lucky was a crime/mystery TV program that ran for one season. These two meatballs emerge and saunter through a scene, tailing a principal- and that's it for them, they're not even characters.  They're just "the Boys".

1959 seems pretty early for him.  The thing about actors like this, playing parts just above the horizon of obscurity, there's very little info.  Which makes them more interesting. 
 

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Midway Barker, c 1940

 

It's summer carnival time.  Here's an authentic barker, working the crowd at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.

Frozen Alive Barker (2:27) 

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Paul Frees, June 22, 1920

 

Happy 105th to audio's greatest voice man.  

People of Earth, attention....

The Mort Drucker Dracula

Extremely Scary Trailers

The complete 3-part anthology (including these excerpts) can be found on our podcasts page.

 

  

 

Leftover pic of Isabel Randolph

 

This happened to be the frame I paused it at, the other night when I was fixing dinner, and since I'd mentioned her recently...seen here with the venerable Roy Roberts, who always came across like a distant relative visiting from Butte.  

It's from a Dick Van Dyke episode, "Sol and the Sponsor", and although Isabel did play Rob's mom in the series, she isn't here.  


Sunday, June 15, 2025