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ASTOS Volume 1, Number 4. December 31, 2002
All-Star things-and-other-stuff
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Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday and hey, if you're lucky
you're still on vacation waiting for 2003 to roll around! It's been an
interesting couple of weeks here, but we'll get to that shortly in our Warm-Ups.
First I want to welcome a new writer to ASTOS, Penny Deutsch. Penny leads
off for us with an excellent Marlene Dietrich piece. Looking forward to more
from Penny in the future. Tammy Stone is back with a
tribute to Miss Lillian Gish in her Silent Collection--you can find Tammy's
piece towards the end of this newsletter. Now let's get rolling with this issue!
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WARM-UPS:
It's been a very eventful last couple of weeks here at things-and-other-stuff,
sort of a whirlwind end to 2002. First, I must apologize to all interested
parties for not yet listing those early 80's wrestling magazines on eBay yet as
I had promised last issue. They are all scanned and ready to be listed,
however I became a little distracted between the Holiday and more importantly
eBay's Free Listing Day on December 26th (hope all of you fellow sellers caught
that!). I want to give a thumbs up to Auctionworks for Free Listing Day: I
set up over 700 Fixed Price Listings to run early that morning and I got them
all through and onto eBay, where they have been moving pretty good.
Next there were some hellos and a good-bye. First, some of you may have
been familiar with my shop on
Ruby Lane. It was sort of a highlight
shop of some of my best items, but due to policy change for 2003 I decided to
remove them. Let me just say that my 15 months on Ruby Lane were a great
pleasure and I would highly recommend the site to anybody looking for a place to
make some quality sales and become involved with a great community of sellers.
I just couldn't change my business model to meet their changes.
We now have listings at
Half.com. It seemed like the best place to put our Classic VHS Tapes and seems like a simple
enough place to list any excess CD's and Books laying around as well.
Another new feature to the things-and-other-stuff.com site is a
Discussion Board. So far the only visitor has been myself, but
maybe you can help change that. There's areas set up over there
specifically for talk about Movies, Baseball and Wrestling, as well as general
chit chat and a Polling arena. Feel free to stop by, we're calling it The
Refreshment Stand.
That's about it for the nitty-gritty stuff, now off to the articles:
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MARLENE DIETRICH
by Penny Deutsch
Mary Magdalene Dietrich, born in Germany on December 27, 1901, was quite an
accomplished violinist prior to an injury to one of her hands. Undaunted,
she decided to pursue an acting career and auditioned at the Berlin school of
drama at the age of twenty-one, supporting herself by working in a glove
factory.
This is just a teaser--check out
Penny's entire article with pictures!
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Penny Deutsch is a freelance writer
who watched Marlene's films as they originally played amongst packed theaters
while growing up in England.
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The Silent Collection by Tammy Stone
LILLIAN GISH
The name Lillian Gish is synonymous with “acting for the silent screen.”
Probably the single most popular actress of her time – with the possible
exception of Mary Pickford – the elder Gish sister made such a memorable
impression on contemporary and future audiences that it would be hard to imagine
cinema today without her invaluable contributions and undying devotion to the
art of filmmaking. She was one of kind, capable of transforming cinema when
filmmakers were struggling to have the movies recognized as a valid art form.
This is just a teaser--check out
Tammy's entire
column with pictures!
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Tammy Stone is a freelance writer and journalist based in Toronto. Watch for her
regular column on the greats of the Silent Screen here in ASTOS twice monthly.
Next issue, John Barrymore.
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END CREDITS:
Be good for now, enjoy your hobby hunting, and I’ll talk to you on the
15th! A very Happy New Year to you all, enjoy yourselves!
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