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ASTOS Volume 2, Number 14.
August 15, 2004
All-Star things-and-other-stuff
Brought to you by things-and-other-stuff
WARM-UPS:
Hi everybody, and welcome back! Hope your summer
continues to go well, ours has been very busy here. Before we get to the
meat of the newsletter there are a couple of sites which I wanted to bring to
everyone's attention. First off is
The Motion Picture Hall of Fame, which allows
you to actually vote to induct your favorite classic actors, actresses, films,
and personalities behind the camera into its hallowed halls. To give you
an idea of how the polling is going the Hall of Fame does publish
the current top 50 vote getters in each
category. The top 3 in each category will be officially inducted on
January 1, 2005. To whet your appetite the top 3 in the Actors category
are currently Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck, and Spencer Tracy, while to top
vote-getting actresses of this moment are Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and
Greer Garson. Current inductees include Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart,
Bette Davis, Alfred Hitchcock as well as a few others. Please go have a
look and
take a few minutes to vote, it's fun!
For the horror movie buffs another page
called to my attention only this past week is
The Top 100 Horror Movies published on The Bad
Movie Report. Personally I think the top 4 are somewhat weak (I don't have
a problem with the movies, but the placement). As it stands though the Top
100 does include possibly all of the great horror flicks in the history of
cinema, complete with some interesting comments every few listings. Of
course these lists always inspire discussion, and thus I thought I'd publish my
all-time top 5 horror flicks here. Please excuse these picks as well, I'm
partial towards classic horror and more recent zombie fare myself. Date of
release, and ranking on the Top 100 list follow the film title.
1. Dawn of the Dead, 1978, 12th. Non-horror
fans who can stand some gore should watch this too!
2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920, unranked. The KINO edition is
beautiful!
3. The Exorcist, 1973, 7th. Who doesn't this freak out?
4. Evil Dead 2, 1987, 15th. Super-gore non-stop action all the way.
5. The Mummy, 1932, unranked (?!). Karloff here in my personal favorite of
the classic Universal Horror movies.
Of course as I always tell anyone who
requests these lists from me, these are my picks of the moment--they could be
different tomorrow. In fact Dawn of the Dead is the only one which
definitely is not budging, it's one of my favorites all-time horror or not.
Scanning the top 100 other favorites that crossed my vision, along with their
ranking on this particular list, were: The Thing (92), Near Dark (82), Bride of
Frankenstein (57), Rosemary's Baby (53), The Birds (51), In the Mouth of Madness
(48), Frankenstein (35), Phantasm (34, though I prefer the sequel), Jaws (27),
Night of the Living Dead (8), and Psycho (5).
If anyone wants to send along their top 5 or
10 all-time horror lists feel free to forward it along to
things@things-and-other-stuff.com
and
we'll try and get it into the next issue!
Now, back to the regular program, hopefully I
haven't sent you away with all of those links to other sites! Since I was
so lazy the past few months with the Photo ID Guides, constantly sending you to
our Movie Card Auction Page, I decided to give you three new guides this
issue...enjoy! Scott D. O'Reilly returns with a profile of Lost Weekend
star Ray Milland, Stephen Schochet has another entry to his Hollywood Stories
collection and Tammy Stone brings Tom Mix into The Silent Collection.
...here's what's featured:
1. Ray Milland by Scott D. O'Reilly
2. Photo ID Guide: 1921-22 Picturegoer Supplements
3. Hollywood Stories: When Stars Collide by Stephen Schochet
4. Photo ID Guide: 1920-21 Fox Co. 3x4 Real Photos
5. The Silent Collection featuring Tom Mix by Tammy Stone
6. Photo ID Guide: 1915 Movie Star Felt Pennants
I've been getting auctions up pretty regularly each night
Monday through Friday lately. Monday-Thursday has been featuring items
being offered for the first time while Friday night listings have been relists
of unsold items usually at ridiculously reduced opening bids. Check it out:
All eBay Auctions
As usual, the
Catalog
carries many additions, in fact we just passed the 2,000 milestone for number
of different movie collectibles for sale there. Please have a look at your convenience.
To the time tunnel we go!
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RAY
MILLAND
By Scott D. O'Reilly
It is
a rare actor who seems tailored to play both leading men and villains. But then
there was nothing run-of- the-mill about a Welshman named Ray Milland, born
Reginald Alfred Truscott Jones in 1907. Milland seemed to touch every base in
his half-century Hollywood career, succeeding in light comedies, musicals,
adventure yarns, searing dramas, thrillers, love stories, campy horror classics,
and television.
This is just a teaser--check out
Scott's entire column with pictures!
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Scott D.
O'Reilly is an independent writer who has written for "The Humanist, "Think,"
"Philosophy Now," "The Philosophers' Magazine," and is a contributor to the book
"The Great Thinkers A-Z" (Continuum, 2004). Contact:(neuroscott@aol.com).
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Photo ID Guide #1:
1921-22 Picturegoer Supplements
Click the link above for images & details!
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Hollywood Stories:
When Stars Collide
By Stephen Schochet
During the silent era it was thought a waste of money to make a movie with more
than one star. Personalities like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster
Keaton were considered potent enough box office on their own. But with dwindling
attendance during the great depression MGM decided to feature Hollywood’s first
all star ensemble cast in Grand Hotel (1932) starring the mammoth egos of Joan
Crawford, Wallace Beery, John Barrymore and Greta Garbo.
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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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Photo ID Guide #2:
1920-21 Fox Co. 3" X 4" Real Photos
Click the link above for images & details!
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The Silent Collection by Tammy Stone
Tom Mix
An entire book could be written about the many different facets of the life of
legendary Tom Mix (or Thomas E. Mix, as he allegedly used to sign his name). Tom
Mix was already almost 30 when he began screen acting, but he was an extremely
prolific actor. He was the king of cowboys for most of the 1920s, thanks the
new, whimsical style of Western films he helped create. Tom was a writer, a
director, a producer, and an entrepreneur. Everything he touched seemed to turn
to gold.
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
tammystone444@yahoo.ca
with any questions or comments on her column.
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Photo ID Guide #3:
1915 Movie Star Felt Pennants
Click the link above for images & details!
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See you next time in mid-September!
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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