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Musings On 20th Century Pop Culture by Psychotronic Paul

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

This Saturday and Sunday: Harry Langdon Film Festival at Niles

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We are happy to see the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum present a two day tribute to one of the greatest and arguably the most original of...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Happy 115th Birthday to The Professor - Jerry Colonna!

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One of the 20th century comedy greats, in the cartoon voice world, radio, movies and television was trombonist, vocalist and songwriter Je...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Back in New York and California: The Great Silent Movie Comedians

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Back in big screen glory - Laurel & Hardy tomorrow evening at QED in Astoria, Queens. The following Saturday, across the country from...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

September 10 Is World Suicide Prevention Day

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September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day . First and foremost, the National Suicide Prevention hotline is (800) 273-8255. Sadly, suici...
Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Happy 100th Birthday, Howard Morris!

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While watching clips from Your Show Of Shows, realized that one of the cast members was born 100 years ago today. That would be the prolific...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Labor Day Entertainment

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As this blog tends to be very comedy-centric, it's difficult to even come up with a very short list of favorite Hollywood feature films ...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Tomorrow Night: Cartoons in Brooklyn!

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Friday night at 389 Melrose Street in Brooklyn, NY, the final Cartoon Carnival screening of the summer presents nearly two hours of early ...
Friday, August 23, 2019

This Weekend in San Francisco: Godzillafest 2019

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As of 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on August 23, 2019, Godzillafest is back, bombarding San Francisco's Balboa Theatre with three da...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Rockabillies, "Guitar Men" and Singing Cowboys in Cartoons and Movies

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The last two posts were about guitarists, so this one will attempt to follow the six string into movies. Funny, very few movies with "g...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Sunday String Swing

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Continuing the thread from the last post, as the following caricature of Django Reinhardt from The Triplets Of Belleville illustrates, we...
Monday, August 05, 2019

Happy Birthday to 20th Century jazz great Lenny Breau!

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"Lenny Breau was the best guitarist to ever shit between two boots." Jerry Reed "Lenny was a comet passing through" Ch...
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Friday, August 02, 2019

Tomorrow Night in Astoria: That Slapstick Show

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Tomorrow afternoon, That Slapstick Show celebrates its 5th anniversary show with a special screening of unseen American silent comedies f...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

And This Blog Loves George Burns & Gracie Allen

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On a Sunday in which Hudson Valley temps hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit - rough on this "weather wuss" San Francisco Bay Area nativ...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

The Classic Comedy Rorschach Test

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In 13 years and 1072 posts, only once has this blogger ever gone as far as to delete a post years in retrospect. Said piece was posted w...
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Paul F. Etcheverry
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I'm a writer and film historian who has programmed classic film events in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years. These include the Pre-Code Follies at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum and the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festivals at Foothill College.
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