Today, we want to call our readers' attention to a GoFund Me for one of our colleagues and comrades in classic movies. That would be our friend and fellow curator of big screen fun Nelson Hughes, producer of That Slapstick Show! way back in the halcyon days before lockdown. He has presented many wonderful programs over the past decade.
Nelson has been hit over an extended stretch by a series of daunting health problems and the staggering costs they entail. The Go Fund Me has been ongoing, as medical, employment and housing issues have a way of snowballing rapidly.
Nelson curated terrific shows of rare and unseen for decades American silent comedies from the Library Of Congress, The Celebrity Roast Of Charley Chase at Brooklyn's City Reliquary and Astoria's Q.E.D.
These included a tribute to the favorite producer-director-writer-comic of Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, the one, the only Charley Parrott a.k.a. Charley Chase. Nelson's work as a film historian has been among a group of silent movie experts key to the rediscovery of sprightly, winsome, athletic 1920's "daredevil comedienne" and comic actress Wanda Wiley.
Exemplifying plucky derring-do, Wanda was one of the best Slapstick Divas and a star of very funny films for Century Comedies.
Like the surviving family members of the ever-charming Ms. Wiley, the gang at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, classic movie mavens, silent comedy aficionados, animation fans and my fellow curators of vintage cinema programs are pleased to enthusiastically support this GoFund Me.
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