Showing posts with label alert the media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alert the media. Show all posts
11 September 2026

“Mrs. Woodbury then secured a complaint against Mulligan”

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Sometime in the winter of 1911, Helen G. Woodbury fired her chauffeur, F. J. Mulligan, and turned him out of her home in Los Angeles. Earl...
10 September 2026

Mrs. Helen Woodbury of Los Angeles

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On 10 Dec 1907, Mrs. F. E. Woodbury of Milwaukee checked into the Hayward Hotel in Los Angeles, California (shown here). Given our present...
11 July 2026

The Facts Behind the First News Stories about an “Our Gang Curse”

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My last two postings have posited that the long-lived public discussion of an “Our Gang curse” started with a couple of wire-service artic...
10 July 2026

“Possibly the most pathetic group of Hollywood ‘has-beens’”

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Yesterday I quoted the February 1959 story from the the Associated Press’s Hollywood columnist Bob Thomas that began: The recent deaths of ...
09 July 2026

“Death has taken a second former member of the ‘Our Gang’ movie comedy cast”

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Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer died of a gunshot wound during a fight on 21 Jan 1959. Switzer had been a big star in the Our Gang film series from...
03 July 2026

Credit Where It’s Due

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I view the public discussion over fair credit for Rachel Hope Cleves’s Charity and Sylvia in Tillie Walden’s Charity and Sylvia from a pa...
30 March 2026

“The 3-year-old comedian is so proud of his injury”

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The 22 Oct 1922 Portland Oregonian , and probably some other newspapers around the same time, ran this story from Hollywood: Jackie Condon, ...
08 October 2025

“Film World Opens Doors Wide”

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In November 1925, the New York American announced a “Motion Picture Contest” for children. For weeks it promoted that competition with arti...
21 April 2020

The Strange Death of the Virus Vanguard!

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On 20 April, the government of Singapore presented a new tool in the public-health armamentarium fighting the coronavirus epidemic: superh...
24 November 2010

News That Would Break His Heart

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This week the Associated Press issued a story about tests it commissioned on drinking glasses bought at the Warner Brothers Studio store. T...
03 March 2009

Passing of a Generation

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Clarence Swensen, who played one of the Munchkin soldiers in the MGM Wizard of Oz , died on 25 February at the age of 91. This picture of fl...
20 January 2009

The Times Finds a Typo

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The New York Times 's City Room blog asks, "Is That an Emoticon in 1862?" The answer is, "No." Emoticons built with ...
18 October 2008

Events We Did Attend

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The New Yorker website offers a baldly factual report on last weekend's Int'l Wizard of Oz Club convention in Fayetteville, Manli...
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02 October 2008

Last Year’s Most Overlooked

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The San Francisco Bay Guardian offers a long story on Sonoma State University's annual report on the "top 25 stories the mainstrea...
18 April 2008

Big Time

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Alison Morris's Shelftalker blog at Publishers Weekly recounted several author events that the Wellesley Booksmith recently handled, w...
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31 January 2008

Kids “Universally” Dislike Clowns?

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This month, the Reuters wire burned with a new scientific finding: Kids hate clowns. The dispatch stated : The news that will no doubt have ...
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13 December 2007

Oz Fandom Catches the NY Times

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Today The New York Times ran this vitally important correction: A television review in Weekend on Nov. 30 about “Tin Man,” a mini-series on...