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ASTOS Volume 2, Number 4. January 15, 2004
All-Star things-and-other-stuff
Brought to you by things-and-other-stuff
WARM-UPS:
Happy New Year! Hope you all enjoyed the Double Issue
last month, but now as we're settled into the new year we can settle back into
our regular ASTOS routine. Ken Lashway and Ken's Comedy Corner is back
with Harold Lloyd. We have a new writer, Omari Bishop profiling Bette
Davis. Stephen Schochet returns with the second installment of his series,
this one featuring Bob Hope Stories. Down at the end of the newsletter is
Tammy Stone who adds Anita Page to her Silent Collection. We also link to
our three-page Photo Essay featuring the popular 1929 Movie-Land Keeno game and
all of its parts.
If you're reading the online version of the newsletter I
apologize if the familiar scans of collectibles are missing from the profiles
page--I keep my images stored on the Auctionworks site which is currently down.
I'll get the photos up for each article as soon as my archive again becomes
available. This also stalls auction listings for a little while.
Let's hope they're back up soon, by the time you guys are seeing this would be
preferable!
Please don't forget to check those
eBay auctions sometime soon though! We've
scanned quite a few items including some old studio photos and 1920's tobacco
cards and will have them up as soon as Auctionworks is back.
The
Catalog
carries many additions, again please take a look sometime soon.
Please also take a look at our
home page for ways you
can contribute to this newsletter and our site even if you are not a collector.
Just scroll down about halfway and have a look on the left. We thank you
for your assistance.
To the time tunnel we go!
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Ken's Comedy Corner by Ken Lashway
HAROLD
LLOYD
Harold Lloyd entered the world in
extreme poverty, born to unremarkable parents, and throughout the years of his
youth, had no real roots. When he died seventy-seven years later, he was a very
wealthy man, long entrenched in a luxurious Beverly Hills mansion with 26
bathrooms, and was famous throughout the world as one of the great film
comedians of Hollywood’s early years.
This is just a teaser--check out
Ken's
entire column with pictures!
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Ken Lashway is a freelance writer from New York. Watch for his regular column on
the greats of early Screen Comedy in each issue of ASTOS. With this Harold
Lloyd piece Ken returns to his regular column which will be seen in each issue
of ASTOS.
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BETTE
DAVIS
By Omari Bishop
Considered one of if not the best American actress of our time, screen legend
Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis on April 5, 1908 in Massachusetts.
Bette Davis began her acting quest after graduating from high school and
studying drama in New York. Her professional career began when she signed with
Universal Pictures but do to the poor box office performances of her early
pictures, she signed with Warner Brothers and the legend began to take shape.
This is just a teaser--check out
Omari's
entire column with pictures!
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Omari Bishop is a freelance writer from the
state of Maryland. This is Omari's first submission to ASTOS and hopefully
not the last!
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1929 Movie-Land Keeno Game
Follow the link above for a photo essay about this vintage game.
The opening page depicts both the box cover and directions and this page links
to scans of all of the Keeno and Call cards as well as links to buy them!
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Hollywood Stories:
Bob Hope Stories
By Stephen Schochet
Once when he was a little boy in England, Leslie Hope (He later renamed himself
Bob after a race car driver he idolized) wanted to pick an apple off a tree.
Symbolic of his career, he didn’t want just any apple but the highest one
possible. He lost his balance, fell and permanently changed the shape of his
nose.
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This is just a teaser--check out
Stephen's
entire column with pictures!
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Stephen Schochet
is the author and narrator of the audiobooks Fascinating Walt Disney and Tales
Of Hollywood. The Saint Louis Post Dispatch says,” these two elaborate
productions are exceptionally entertaining.” Hear RealAudio samples of these
great, unique gifts at
http://www.hollywoodstories.com.
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The Silent Collection by Tammy Stone
Anita Page
It’s easy to fall into clichés when writing about people we’ve never met and
will never meet – so many of our silent film stars, for example, followed such a
similar trajectory that it would be difficult to avoid commenting on the
rags-to-riches stories, the trappings of fame, the ever-new heights of stardom
reached as the movies rapidly became the most popular form of entertainment in
history. But maybe the clichés can stop here, with Anita Page. She made, on
average, less movies than her peers, and actually seems to have led a relatively
“normal” life, away from the spotlight. Just like the rest of us? Not quite. It
is a siren of the silent screen we’re talking about here.
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 each and every issue
of ASTOS.
Tammy invites you to write her at
stonetamar@hotmail.com
with any questions or comments on her column.
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We'll be back on January 31 with another packed issue of ASTOS! Ken
Lashway has mentioned that he wanted to take a look at Laurel & Hardy for that
issue, Stephen Schochet will be back and we will also have a Gene Autrey profile
from Lisa Smith. As always Tammy Stone returns with The Silent Collection
and we'll feature another vintage collectible for you as well. 'Til
then, take care!
As always feel free to e-mail any thoughts or ideas
to us at
things@things-and-other-stuff.com, we're always
willing to listen.
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