ASTOS Volume 2, Number 16.  October 15, 2004
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FIRST REEL: 
Hi everybody, here's the lastest issue of ASTOS, only fifteen days late (sorry!).  As for updated items on the site please be sure to have a look at our revamped Entertainment Main Page.  We've simplified the page greatly.  Our Prices Realized section has once again been updated, this time until October 8, and I hope to add more linked images to it over the weekend.  Also, the popular page for 1916 MJ Moriarty Playing Cards has been updated yet again to reflect my findings upon splitting yet another deck of these popular cards.

Sorry to say I don't have any new lists of film favorites for you in this spot this month--nobody submitted anything to me and regretfully I have not had the time to compose one myself.  I may need to come up with one for next issue, but if you're feeling helpful and have one of your own please feel free to write things@things-and-other-stuff.com, and I'll get your list up here next issue.

This is turning out to be one of our shortest issues in awhile, but maybe it just feels that way after last month's totally packed issue!  Anyway, we have our usual columns back thanks to both Tammy Stone and Stephen Schochet, plus another submission from ASTOS regular Susan M. Kelly.  Here are the opening credits... 

1. Buddy Ebsen by Susan M. Kelly
2. Hollywood Stories: Drunks on the Set by Stephen Schochet
3. Photo ID Guide: 1933 Boy's Cinema Large 3-1/2" X 5-1/2" Premium Cards
4. The Silent Collection featuring Louise Brooks by Tammy Stone

Not too bad if I don't say so myself.  I can't believe we've gone this long (35 issues and counting!) without having had Louise Brooks covered!  Well, now she is.

Auctions continue to go up pretty regularly each night Monday through Friday now.  If you get this in time please have a look at the batch of Ghirardelli's Chocolate Cards ending tonight.  It's a Who's Who of the 1920's.  Other interesting items up next week include a batch of World War II era Theatre Programs (an Abbott & Costello example is shown on the Hollywood Stories page in this month's version of the on-site newsletter), plus towards the end of the week another 53 cards from the aforementioned 1916 MJ Moriarty Playing Cards set.  Following is a handy link to check out all of our auctions:

All eBay Auctions

As usual, the Catalog  carries many additions, please have a look at your convenience. 

To the time tunnel we go!
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BUDDY EBSEN
By Susan M. Kelly
“Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Jed...”.  The familiar theme song asked us to meet Jed Clampett and his hillbilly family each week, but under the gruff, grizzled old character there was a soft-spoken, charming man who had made his mark in Hollywood long before most of his TV audience was even born.  For most of us, the story we don’t know is the story of Buddy Ebsen.  

This is just a teaser--check out Susan's entire column with pictures!
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Hollywood Stories: Drunks on the Set
By Stephen Schochet
As long as actors stay sober on the set, movie studios will generally put up with their off screen behavior.  Colin Farrell often showed up at six in the morning to work on Swat (2003) so hung over from an all night bender that his bodyguards would carry the nearly unconscious Irishman into his trailer.  His co-star Sam Jackson was constantly amazed that the young actor was on time, knew all his lines and was totally professional.
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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:
1933 Boy's Cinema Large 3-1/2" X 5-1/2" Premium Cards
Click the link above for images & details!
Ten beautiful cards for you to see along with both sides of the wallet which contained them!
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The Silent Collection by Tammy Stone
Louise Brooks
There is a mighty culture around the feisty and witty Louise Brooks to this day – fans have seen her in movies, her iconographic face on posters and movie book covers in bookstores around the world, and they worship her. Her famous black bob, the “black helmet” framed a face described by many critics as one “that the camera loved.” People seem to take ownership of her the way they do a cherished or prized possession: it is though they have discovered her themselves and are linked personally to her legend.

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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See you again at the end of the month, I mean it this time!

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