We got good Ink!!! WE GOT GOOD INK!!!

From Betsy Sherman in the Arts Fuse!! Oh and Lauren King, That Empress of Insight, came thru as well!! (sorry folks dis ain't da golden age, yer gonna have to pay someone to read that Boston Globe article) I mean lemme tell yuh, its hard to get decent arts press attention in this town, always has been and I've been at this twenty four years!!!

Why Screen..."Million Dollar Legs" (1932) ?

Because it is "pre-code"comedy and as such is pitched at a slightly more adult audience, and mostly because its literally the only film in W.C. Fields'surviving catalogue wherein The Great Man plays a person of influence, the President of the Balkan Duchy of Klopstokia. Of course in the whole of Western Civilization no Chief Executive, President Prime Minster or Duce, has ever had to hold on to power by prevailing in the Summer Olympics weightlifting competition! That may frenz is the very spirit of Dada come to roost in the Hollywood Hills. It is also a prime illustration of Moe Howard's dictum that the very sole of comedy emerges in a Hegelian sense from the Annihilation of Dignity. Director Eddie Cline was a frequent collaborator with Fields, he would subsequently direct two of The Great Man's Best Films, "The Bank Dick" & "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break". The rest of the cast includes beefy Jack Oakie (in a rare purely romantic Lead) and veritable cavalry charge of slapstick comedians, Cross Eyed Ben Turpin, spindly Andy Clyde and the ever excitable Hugh Herbert among others. It is the sort of film they don't make anymore, a slapstick farce with a strong overlay of pure satire, hell they weren't making many of these back in the day, so this is a rare opportunity to reacquaint oneself with the Incomparable Comedy of W.C. Fields, don't miss it!! The Somerville Theatre (micro-cinema) Friday, February 22nd 8pm (sharp!) 55 Davis Square Somerville Ma. Admission $7.50 (Cheap! Cash Only) 617) 625-5700 Note Tickets go on sale thirty minutes or so before showtime outside the Micro Cinema downstairs at the Somerville Theatre

This is as close as I got to...

Sam J. "Flash Gordon" Jones at the Somerville Theatre last Friday Night, let the record show that is a small bag of popcorn in his hand, please indulge no rumors. Amazingly Jones is the subject of a fairly comprehensive film documentary detailing his ubiquitous career after the 1980 Flash Gordon adaptation. The man is nothing if not indomitable, working as bodyguard when he isn't on the convention circuit or collaborating with Seth McFarlane. Ubiquity like that, DESERVES a documentary!! Lt@: Garen Daly (CapoRegime, Boston Sci Fi Film Festival), Lisa Downes (Director of "After Flash")and Sam J.Jones.