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Archive for July, 2007

Pineapple Jackson at Hollywood ‘80

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

As an adult, he was featured as an extra in numerous of my favorite TV series: Sanford and Son, Newhart, and Picket Fences, for example. As a child, he starred as Isaiah in the Academy Award winning 1931 feature Cimarron. But, most importantly, Eugene Jackson starred in six of the silent Our Gang films in 1924-25. […]

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I have always had a love/hate relationship with alligators. They are so ugly and scary that I name them as my biggest fear. This may have stemmed from a dream I had a child that I was descending on an escalator in a giant deparment store into an alligator-filled swamp at the bottom, while Nancy […]

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Hugh Chapman: A New Rascal

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

It’s always a distinct pleasure to meet a newly-discovered indentifiable performer from the Our Gang series. Although admittedly only playing a minor role in the Little Rascals, Hugh Chapman is my latest example this. He appeared in three of the Hal Roach one-reelers in 1937: The Pigskin Palooka, Glove Taps, and Mail and Female. He subsequently […]

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While the day’s earlier events are now relatively lost from memory, I can distinctly and vividly recall most of the evening’s activities on Thursday June 29, 1995. The afternoon doubtlessly consisted of Laurel and Hardy location scouting and cemetery haunting. But this was the night that the Los Angeles Conservancy presented a screening of the […]

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This is a continuation of the memoir I wrote shortly after my October 2005 Hollywood trip, which began here. Because my writings about Saturday, the second day of my adventures, describe several distinct and different events, I have broken the day up into two postings - the next one to follow. How I wish I […]

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