Over at the Radio Spirits blog this morning, I wrote up a little birthday tribute to the one and only Eddie “Rochester” Anderson (born on this date in 1905)—comic sidekick/second banana beyond compare, and faithful “valet” to the one of the funniest men to ever walk the planet, as my friend Jeff was often fond of saying. (That’s Jack Benny, in case you didn’t recognize him in the above photograph.) Anderson also gets a shout-out via a scheduled ClassicFlix tweet now available at a Facebook or Twitter feed near you, so if you’re not already subscribing why not check it out?
Hot on the heels of the successful Gish
Sisters Blogathon, Movies, Silently
has another project underway in the ol’ blog kitchen—a ‘thon to celebrate the 88th
anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera
(1925). The
Chaney Blogathon (“Two men…thousands of faces”), underway from November
15-18 and co-hosted by TDOY fave The Last Drive-In, will cover the careers
of Lon, Sr. and Lon, Jr.—Thrilling Days
of Yesteryear will kick in with a review of one of my favorite Lon, Jr.
turns: the 1952 western classic High
Noon. (After this event, Movies, Silently will enter a treatment
program to kick their blogathon addiction.
Okay, I’m just kidding about that.)
Speaking of blogathons (smooth as glass), two film reviews
that I wrote here for my BBFF Stacia’s Camp and
Cult Blogathon, Seconds (1966)
and The Court Jester (1956—in tandem
with The Hollywood Revue’s Paramount
Centennial Blogathon), have been nominated for two prestigious “CiMBA” awards,
bestowed by that august organization of classic film bloggers known as The
Classic Movie Blog Association. To those
folks who nominated TDOY—words simply
cannot adequately express my gratitude; I know it sounds like a time-worn cliché
but it really is an honor to be nominated.
Here’s the full list of nominees:
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE REVIEW: DRAMA
Scarface: The Shame
of a Nation, Once
Upon a Screen
31 Days of Oscar: The Rains Came (1939), The
Lady Eve’s Reel Life
CMBA Fabulous Films of
the 1940s Blogathon: My Darling
Clementine (1946), Caftan
Woman
The Black Cat
(1934), Pre-Code.Com
The Camp and Cult Film
Blogathon: Seconds (1966), Thrilling
Days of Yesteryear
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE REVIEW: MUSICAL OR COMEDY
The Paramount
Centennial Blogathon/The Camp &
Cult Blogathon: The Court Jester
(1956), Thrilling
Days of Yesteryear
Barbara Stanwyck
Blogathon: Ball of Fire (1941), Old
Movies Nostalgia
Caftan Woman's Choice:
One for December on TCM (Babes in
Toyland, 1934), Caftan
Woman
The Awful Truth,
1938, 1001
Movies You Must See Before You Die
Review of The Doll (1919), Movies,
Silently
Search for Beauty
(1934), Pre-Code.Com
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE ARTICLE
Top 10 Oscar-Less
Dames and Their Oscar-Worthy Roles, Shadows
and Satin
Sunset Blvd...It IS
Big! Once Upon a
Screen
Fashion in Film: Shanghai Express (1932), The
Lady Eve’s Reel Life
The Man Who Saved
Cinerama, Jim
Lane’s Cinedrome
BEST PROFILE OF A CLASSIC MOVIE PERFORMER OR FILMMAKER
Happy Birthday, Olivia
de Havilland! Backlots
Tyrone Power's Acting
Lineage, Java
Bean Rush
Julie Adams Chats with
the Cafe about James Stewart, the Gill Man, Elvis, and Her Autobiography, Classic
Film & TV Cafe
Cagney, The Lady Eve’s
Reel Life
What a Character!
Blogathon Canadian Edition: Miss Lucile Watson and Miss Maude Eburne, Caftan
Woman
BEST BLOG DESIGN
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE SERIES (multiple posts)
TCM Pre-Code Pick of
the Month, Shadows
and Satin
Luck of the Irish:
Darby O’Gill and the Little People, Jim
Lane’s Cinedrome
Women Warriors, Another
Old Movie Blog
Silent Take, Movies, Silently
BEST CLASSIC MOVIE BLOG EVENT
James Cagney Blogathon,
The Movie
Projector
Coverage of the TCM
Classic Film Festival, Backlots
Worthy candidates, one and all—voting is now underway (it’s
limited to CMBA members—so don’t try any funny business) and we should know the
results by next Tuesday. So good luck to
the nominees!
And I hate to close this one out on a sad note…but
yesterday, there was much buzz on the Facebook about the passing of a true
Chicagoland legend: Jerry G. Bishop, the original Svengoolie, died this weekend
at
the age of 77. R.I.P, Mr. Bishop.
2 comments:
Congratulations to all the CiMBA nominees, and may the best bloggers win! :-)
Good luck with the CiMBAs, Ivan -- and I feel awful that Svengoolie died. I hadn't heard. I really liked that guy...
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