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Post by helrunar on May 20, 2021 12:18:44 GMT
Dem, what a marvelous clipping from 1954. Thanks!
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 20, 2021 18:42:16 GMT
His company revived Victorian "blood-and-thunder" melodramas. They sound fun. Are his films like that? Are they worth tracking down? Tod Slaughter. That's a great name for that sort of entertainment isn't it, and amazingly it's his real name! The films are very much in keeping with the stage plays, and most, far as I know are in the public domain and easy to find on-line. Maria Marten, or the Murder in the Red Barn is as good a place to start as any. If you enjoy that, it's a fairly safe bet you'll like the rest, as Slaughter and entourage give virtually the same performance every time. Later edit. The magnificent Mr. Slaughter in action and Spring-heeled Jack at the Theatre Royal, Stratford.  Now I can't help thinking of this photo when I see one of your posts, but seeing in my mind's eye Tod Slaughter with Isaac Asimov's hands grafted on. A very frightening thought for any young lady. |
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Post by dem bones on May 20, 2021 20:23:33 GMT
Now I can't help thinking of this photo when I see one of your posts, but seeing in my mind's eye Tod Slaughter with Isaac Asimov's hands grafted on. A very frightening thought for any young lady. It's no good me denying that the resemblance is anything other than uncanny. Stick a crucifix around Todd-Asimov's neck, douse him in Hai Karate and we might be twins. Even our loveliest smiles meet with similar reaction. I wasn't aware of Asimov's foibles until you mentioned them. Forrest J. Ackerman was another whose beasts with five fingers were reputedly too well travelled by far. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 20, 2021 21:00:43 GMT
Now I can't help thinking of this photo when I see one of your posts, but seeing in my mind's eye Tod Slaughter with Isaac Asimov's hands grafted on. A very frightening thought for any young lady. It's no good me denying that the resemblance is anything other than uncanny. Stick a crucifix around Todd-Asimov's neck, douse him in Hai Karate and we might be twins. Even our loveliest smiles meet with similar reaction. I wasn't aware of Asimov's foibles until you mentioned them. Forrest J. Ackerman was another whose beasts with five fingers were reputedly too well travelled by far. Someone told me, so I don't know if it true, that he was invited to talk about the art of pinching bottoms at a convention, so he was quite happy about what he was doing. I've never read him. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 20, 2021 21:02:39 GMT
Now I can't help thinking of this photo when I see one of your posts, but seeing in my mind's eye Tod Slaughter with Isaac Asimov's hands grafted on. A very frightening thought for any young lady. It's no good me denying that the resemblance is anything other than uncanny. Stick a crucifix around Todd-Asimov's neck, douse him in Hai Karate and we might be twins. Even our loveliest smiles meet with similar reaction. Is that photo how you see me now when I reply? Ha. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 20, 2021 21:20:55 GMT
I'm quite amazed that I've not read him. You'd think I'd have managed one by accident, as Wiki says he wrote over 500 books. Oh and 90,000 letters. Should I try one?
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Post by dem bones on May 20, 2021 21:43:35 GMT
I'm quite amazed that I've not read him. You'd think I'd have managed one by accident, as Wiki says he wrote over 500 books. Oh and 90,000 letters. Should I try one? I'm not the person to ask. Not read hardly anything of his, never understood the appeal. Didn't like all this "Call me Forry, I'm everyone's best mate" bollocks which, for me, seemed to translate as "I could be really good for your career." I'm guessing much of his fiction was SF? Is that photo how you see me now when I reply? Ha. Curses, rumbled! There's just something about a haunted bonnet girl ... |
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Post by helrunar on May 21, 2021 1:54:09 GMT
Dem, your reference to Hai Karate aftershave coaxed a smile from my weary features. This is a hilarious commercial that I probably find just a little too funny... a lethal Valerie Leon stalking the latest Hai Karate customer. One has to ask why any man in his right mind would possibly run away from her?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vq94cxeCw8cheers, Hel |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 21, 2021 12:00:49 GMT
  Curses, rumbled! There's just something about a haunted bonnet girl ... Sorry I think my signature is full up now. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 21, 2021 12:43:41 GMT
Those hands! I recognise the ink stains! THOSE ARE ASIMOV'S HANDS!!!!
samdawson I will let you use that for a story title. I'm sure your giant imagination will be able to do something exciting with it. |
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Post by samdawson on May 21, 2021 13:04:02 GMT
Those hands! I recognise the ink stains! THOSE ARE ASIMOV'S HANDS!!!!
samdawson I will let you use that for a story title. I'm sure your giant imagination will be able to do something exciting with it.
Well thank you, Princess, but I will have to pass on this one due to work commitments leaving not much time to catch up on fiction and an article I have to write |
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