Little did L.A. wrestling aficionados in the 1940s know that the true identity of The Masked Haystack was Sydney Greenstreet. The Haystack (Sydney) was a pioneer in grabbing the microphone and ranting about pencilnecks.
Let me put it this way. All of the lighting assistant’s hospital bills were paid graciously by Erich.
Erich is glancing to the left because: a. there’s a hippopotamus over there. b. he’s annoyed at Gloria Swanson’s failure to light his cigarette promptly. c. he thinks the pose makes him look more presidential. d. he’s watching the guy who ran by and knocked his hat all out of kilter exit the building. e. […]
Jimmy held Stan and Ollie and crowds of extras and technicians spellbound as he read aloud and acted out the antics of Scraps, The Patchwork Girl, and the Gnome King and all everybody else in the Oz book, The Gnome King of Oz. So taken was the mob that Jimmy eventually read the entire series […]
James would often entertain Stan and Ollie by: a. ingesting haggis through his nose. b. reading Oz books aloud to them. c. rollerskating on one leg with his owl perched on top of his head. d. spinning like a top while shrieking. e. osmosis.
Not only did the great Eileen return to her clown car manufacturing duties, she did open that little surf shop in Hermosa as a sort of a kind of a kicky hobby. Dude, her boards rocked.
After shooting wrapped up on ‘The Bad Seed’, Eileen: a. opened a surf shop in Hermosa Beach, featuring boards designed by Heckert herself. b. took Patty McCormack tuna fishing on her trawler. c. moved to Spain and became a seamstress. d. climbed Mt. Whitney with five pound weights attached to her ankles. e. returned to […]
Walter was a nationally ranked river swimmer. As a San Francisco youth, he swam daily from Angel Island, where he camped each summer, to Oakland and back again. This activity soon prepared him for river swimming, which he took to with gusto. Therefore, it was no surprise to anybody at all that on ‘Bringing Up […]
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5 of 5 stars to The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton goodreads.com/review/show/55…
