New Photos Added: Martin Scorsese, Bob Hope, Paul Winchell, Celebrity Endorsements, ITALIANAMERICAN, Drew Barrymore, Vintage Postcards, etc.
April 21st, 2009 by Scott Marks
Joseph and Mary
Drew Barrymore - 3 photos added
Celebrity Endorsements:
Tony Bennett for Tanqueray
Wilford Brimley for Toilet Water
Pierce Brosnan for Aquascutum
Kari & Dick Clark for Tempur-Pedic Beds
Olivia de Havilland for Lux Soap
Claudia Goncalves for Oakley by SerenityF
Patrick Dempsey for Versace
Vincent Gallo for Belvedere Vodka
Vincent Gallo for Yves St. Laurent
Heather Graham for Emanuel Ungaro
Heather Graham for Skyy Vodka
Anne Hathaway for Lancome
Jennifer Love Hewitt for Hanes
Jenna Jameson for Sheiki Jeans
Scarlett Johansson for L’Oreal
Scarlett Johansson for Louis Vuitton
Art Linkletter heartily endorses the game of LIFE
Lindsay Lohan for Miu Miu #1, #2
Eva Longoria for Bebe Sport
Courtney Love for Versace
Diana Lynn for Sylvania
Jenny McCarthy & Kelly Clarkson for Candies
Ed McMahon for Premier Tubs
Jean Reno for Samsonite Luggage
Ludivine Sagnier for Miu Miu
Martin Scorsese for American Express
Jessica Simpson for Proactiv
Gwen Stefani for L.A.M.B. Perfume
Hilary Swank for Calvin Klein
Charlize Theron for Briel
Liv Tyler for Givenchy
Smell like an Usher
Bob Hope:
With Katherine Hepburn in The Iron Petticoat (1956)
With Jane Wyman and Allen Ludden
Portrait
Bob Hope, Right here!
Beau James (1957)
With Anita Ekberg in Paris Holiday (1958)
Paris Holiday 45 rpm Picture Sleeve with Bing Crosby
With Jayne Mansfield
Call Me Bwana (1963) 45 rpm Picture Sleeve
With Gary Morton
With Lawrence Welk, Alan Hale, Jr. and Johnny Grant
The Hope Mobile
The Bob Hope Chrysler Classic at Bermuda Dunes
With Anita Bryant, Diane Shelton, Joey Heatherton, Miss World, Phyllis Diller & The Kim Sisters
Martin Scorsese’s Italianamerican (1974) - New gallery with 3 photos added
Buster Keaton - 1 photo added on the set of Bonanza with Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker & Ed Wynn.
Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1973) - 2 new photos added
Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York (1977) - 3 new color photos added
Postcards from the Edge:
Anna Karina
Audrey Hepburn
Ava Gardner
Brigitte Bardot - 5 new postcards added
Charles Boyer & Irene Dunne
Claudia Cardinale
The Egyptian Theatre
Frank Sinatra
Gina Lollobrigida
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
James Mason
Jane Fonda - 2 postcards added
Jean-Paul Belmondo
State Street at Night
The Esther Williams Swimming Pool Set
Ursula Andress
Vintage Newspaper Movie Ads:
Marilyn Chambers in Insatiable
Martin Scorsese’s I Call First aka Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (1967) - New gallery with two photos added
Paul Winchell - New Gallery with 7 photos added
Thanks to Daryl Chin for all of the new Scorsese additions!
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Two Days In Another Town
April 18th, 2009 by Scott Marks
Traveling north, I found myself in sunny Malibu meeting with commcinema.com, California’s premier provider of outdoor cinema systems. Say hello to their new San Diego rep, but more on that in future columns.
From Malibu, I sailed east to the lovely city of Burbank to spend the night at brother Rick’s conclave celebrating with pizza from Casa Bianca (as good a thin crust pie as any in Chicago) and watching educational DVDs. Rick could not make it through more than thirty minutes of Emilio before his George C. Scott impulse kicked in and he began to scream, “TURN IT OFF!” Besides, with a suitcase filled with The Munsters and latter day Buster Keaton shorts directed by Jules White, who needed contemporary art house drivel?
En route to Casa Bianca, we made our loyal pilgrimage to Ledge & Riverside to visit the Toluca lake Branch of Planet Hope. As always, Rick’s car radio instantly turned to AM 1620, Bob Hope Airport Radio. Where else on earth (except my house) can you hear Bob Hope’s name mentioned at least once every minute?
There was a lot more I heard coming from Radio Free Hope. Things I dare not tell you.
Herman’s Sorority Caper was a revelation on Rick’s Hi-Def monitor. The cameo by Mike Ross (he prays for Fat Jack’s death in The Disorderly Orderly) looked so crisp that one could actually smell the wine on Grandpa’s breath. The image was was so lifelike, when Grandpa cast a spell on Herman to cure him of hiccups, I wound up in a trance!
Grandpa lays it on Herman!
The Jules White touch is unmistakable. Say what you will about the end results, the man was an auteur. I can spot a Jules White cutaway shot a mile away. The same goes for one of his lazy, trademarked cut-ins. (Begin a scene by placing the camera twelve-feet away from the action. Stop, move the camera in six-feet and resume filming.) Using the Stooge template, White directed ten Buster Keaton shorts for Columbia between 1939 - 41. The credit design, and many of those credited, are identical to the opening passages used in Stooge shorts from the same period. The shorts were scripted by longtime Keaton co-writer (Sherlock, Jr., The General) and then-current Stooge scribe (I’ll Never Heil Again, Brideless Groom) Clyde Bruckman. In one form or another you have seen every gag these shorts have to offer.
That doesn’t mean I failed to study ever foot of them, particularly the sound effects. The penultimate Stooge sound effect is the “UHH!” It’s the funniest god damned thing.The first recorded evidence that I have been able to track down occurred in the dance class scene in Hoi Polloi. It’s the same guy, who sounds nothing like any of the Stooges, saying “UHH!” a hundred times. They appear in literally dozens if not hundreds of Columbia shorts and features throughout the 30s and 40s. Each time I hear one I laugh, especially when they arrive unexpected.Next time a Blondie film is on, stick around for the inevitable scene where Dagwood collides with the postman. UHH!
By comparing shorts, you can actually see the methods to the sound effects editor’s madness. The “UHH!” is only brought out when the punishment fits the crime. Bumping into someone, having a door open in your face, or even falling off a horse is cause for an “Eeep,” not an “UHH!” Getting head butted in the stomach is immediate cause for an “UHH!” The same goes for when characters fall on top of each other, although in this instance it is almost impossible to determine just who emitted the sound. I am revealing too much information from my upcoming 7,000 page doctoral thesis on the semiotic use and application of sound effects at Columbia Pictures, 1935 - 1958.
The next morning I had to hop two Metros and one Big Blue Bus to travel from Burbank to Santa Monica. The #222 (Lloyd Haines wasn’t my driver) picked me up on the corner of Magnolia and Hollywood Way. Taking up all three handicapped seats at the front of the bus were a couple from Nashville whom your grandmother would describe as “good eaters.” There was some sleazy guy in his late 30s seated opposite them trying to sell them on taking one of his personalized tours of Hollywood. Here’s a red flag: If a guy has his own fleet of limos to chauffeur tourists around the city, what the hell is he doing on a public bus?
The young couple, in town for the weekend in order to attend a religious convention, had never before ventured into this part of the world. They were actually very nice people and everybody instantly got in on the conversation. I am always nice to tourists and will go out of my way to make sure they know how to arrive at their intended destination. Let them go back to Tennessee and tell everyone how nice Southern Californians are and entice their friends to come west and spend their vacation dollars.
“So where do you think the best place is for us to see some movie stars,” he asked in his best Jethro Bodine. I told them either The Ivy or the Von’s in Burbank where I saw Bob Hope. Others had better suggestions. I pointed out the seven little houses on Hollywood Way that Uncle Walt built for the seven lead animators that worked on Snow White. Even the so-called tour guide never heard that one before. He quickly pointed at the building with the name Warner Bros. writ large across it’s side and said, “that’s Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood has an office there.” Rounding Alameda he announced, “that’s NBC where they tape the ‘Leno’ show. It starts taping at five, but people line up for hours before.”
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