A lot of early TV was lost as well, mostly because stations could reuse tapes and they were expensive.   The BBC was notorious for it,  which is why we have a lot of missing early Doctor Who.  The only reason we have the complete Monty Python Flying Circus is because George Harrison bought the tapes from the BBC to…

I did a previous Wormhole on the Dumont television network, an early competitor to NBC and CBS that launched the careers of Jackie Gleason (The Honeymooners began as a sketch on Gleason’s Dumont show) and Ernie Kovacs, and had the first TV shows with an African-American or Asian-American lead. When the network folded,…

The Parade’s Gone By by Kevin Brownlow is a pretty comprehensive history of Hollywood in the silent era...

And regarding Citizen Kane, I’ve harbored some doubts over the story of the camera negative being lost in a fire. There are varying reports, some say the fire was in New Jersey in the 70s, others that Orson Welles himself had the camera negative, and lost it in a fire at his home in Spain.

I’m going to hijack this thread slightly to ask of you, the commentariat, if you know of any good non-fiction about early Hollywood (say 1900 to 1930)? I’ve read Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, and the “You Must Remember This” podcast has done some great episodes, but there’s so…

Laura M Browning and Caitlin PenzeyMoog. As far as I can tell (I don’t use Twitter either) neither of them have made their reasons for leaving public, so the tears stuff may just be cos they’re sad to leave a place they’ve worked at for ages.

You guys get artisanal trolls? Man, I just get low effort internet tough guy chuds that spam my own messages back at me and threaten to bash my teeth in with a bat. That’s some mass produced factory bullshit, I feel insulted.

This is a feature, not a bug.

Farm-to-table Russian trolling. *chef kiss*

Definitely mentally stunted.

Yeah, this is exactly what they want to see. Every moment Trump is in office, every spectacle like this one, further degrades our standing and influence around the world. Our allies see this shit and shake their heads in bewilderment, while our enemies laugh.

I’ve seen no one address WHY Putin supported Trump’s 2016 run.

Dismiss your mentally stunted troll.

I honestly didn’t think it could get more embarrassing. It has reached the point of heartbreaking on my scale, well past the point of anger, humor, contempt, and camp. Not sure what the next step would be.

Yep, the people that are against registering firearms in a federal database because the Gov’t could use that against you to find out if you have weapons or not when they suppress the people, are probably all happy about this as it purges the people they don’t want here.

Exactly. You don’t have the right to occupy someone’s couch for the rest of forever. Go home. If I invited a man home with me and made out but he decided not to go any further but just decided to hang out in my living room I would be furious—and call him an uber. The fury not being related to sex but to the idea that…

He was publicly embarrassed, because his date wouldn’t go home. She went home with him. She engaged in oral sex with him. She asked him to stop and he did. Instead of going home, she stayed and watched TV. She has agency too.

Is there anything he could have done or said that would make anyone happy? Truly? He was basically flamed by a consenting woman who published revenge porn about their encounter. I really don’t put Ansari on the same level as a Louis C.K., nor do I expect that any of us or owed an apology or reckoning from him.

long time lurker.

The Mail has been nothing but racists since forever; anything that keeps them from getting clicks is fine by me.