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Their comedy timing and mannerisms are just unsurpassed.
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Man I just can't stop. Another pair from childhood memory: The piano delivery. And the one when Stan came back late from the Great War and Ollie thought he was a disabled vet 'cause Stan had folded his leg on the chair..... Oh yeah!!!!#
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Man I just can't stop. Another pair from childhood memory: The piano delivery. And the one when Stan came back late from the Great War and Ollie thought he was a disabled vet 'cause Stan had folded his leg on the chair. Oh and not to mention one when Finlayson arrived near the end with his bow and arrow. So then, that's The Music Box (Oscar winner - "Steady Suzie"), Blockheads ("There's gonna be a fight!")and Another Fine Mess ("The last of the Kentucky Buckshots", and of course the one with the title that confuses everyone with the famous quote which is "another NICE mess). But every single one there a classic. Blotto was on our viewing list at the last Sons of the Desert meeting. The others (all shorts) were: 1) Bacon Grabbers - our silent starter with Edgar Kennedy as a radio installment dodger; 2) Chickens Come Home - with Mae Busch as Ollie's old flame about to ruin his election plans - and his marriage; and 4) One Good Turn - in return for a meal -as victims of the depression - they try to help an old lady with her rent. Wonderful evening.
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I've tried recently looking for any record of the boys' fall out over Ollie's solo starring role in Zenobia, and the low audience figures on that last UK tour. Neither Sons of the Desert founder John McCabe in his Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy biography, or Randy Skretvedt in his Laurel and Hardy: the Magic Behind the Movies, mention it. In fact they indicate the reverse is true, with L&H being almost mobbed on arrival on the tour, and Stan being happy to wait for Ollie to work out his contract with Hal Roach on Zenobia, before they both form their own company (which sadly, in the end made no further films). So it does seem the writers have added some mild conflict etc., to make a story here.. There were often rumours about fall outs, but nothing that I can see ever being substantiated.
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Man I just can't stop. Another pair from childhood memory: The piano delivery. And the one when Stan came back late from the Great War and Ollie thought he was a disabled vet 'cause Stan had folded his leg on the chair..... Oh yeah!!!!# Didn't they also try to deliver a block of ice? On a hot day.o
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Hey paul - remind me again, whats the one where they row with Findlayson and they keep smashing bits of his house, and he smashes bits of their car and the crowd keep marching back and forth to watch? Love that one. Talking pictures in the uk have been reshowing a few LnHs and ive recorded a few, and have enjoyed them all, music box, laughing gravy, oliver the 8th, and the one where stan inherits money,. Im also hoping to see again the one where they sell fish from the car!!
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The long neck moment is in Way Out West. They try to sell Christmas trees in California and wreck Fin's house in the silent Big Business. Towed in the Hole is where they are fish sellers ("salmon, mackerel, swordfish and tu-u-u-u--unaaa"), and Oliver the Eighth is a definite favourite. Jitters the butler: "Did you ever have your throat cut? Well, you're going to!" I hate the really heavy cinema organ score that accompanies Big Business, especially compared to the silents that have had new soundtracks dubbed from the Beau Hunks re-recordings. But I don't mind filling in the blanks guys. Any conversation about L&H is a pleasure.
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Was Brent Spiner unavailable for this? He's a clone of Stan Laurel. The guy they got looks nothing like him!
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Was Brent Spiner unavailable for this? He's a clone of Stan Laurel. The guy they got looks nothing like him! That guy is Steve Coogan, and is a brilliant mimic as well as one of the UK's top comic actors with a classic list of characters, headed by Alan Partridge, a creation that will be remembered in the same class as anything that John Cleese has done (not that I dislike the latter of course). He has a similar north west English tone in his voice to Stan, and I can already hear the slight 'shhh' sound to his 's'es that Stan has when you listen to his voice. Don't forget that appearance-wise John C Reilly has the added advantage of prosthetics. I wouldn't worry about the two leads in this.
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Big business - thank you. I gotta see that again.
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Laurel n hardy docu on sky arts tonight at 10 (wednesday 26th)
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The long neck moment is in Way Out West. You gotta be kidding. Which means I may have never seen WOW from beginning to end ...... ...o! Disgraceful!
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I think he borrowed Oldman's Churchill mask.
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Funny: Laurel & Hardy NOT Funny: Abbot & Costello
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