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Archive for the 'Black & White' Category

It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas

December 12, 2007

From almost fifty years ago, here’s Perry Como crooning “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.”  From his 1958 television Christmas Special.

Sugar Chile Robinson

November 30, 2007

Move over Shirley Temple and Toni Harper, there’s a new child prodegy in town!  Or at least, there was sixty years ago…
Frankie “Sugar Chile” Robinson had an amazing gift of jazz.  Here is he featured in the movie “No Leave, No Love” playing for a couple of G.I.’s and their doll.  Unfortunately, after a brief [...]

A Chaplin Thanksgiving

November 23, 2007

Among many things, I am thankful for the good fortune of spending Thanksgiving with my family and for the bountiful feast in which we partook.
Unlike this poor Little Fellow, so many Thanksgivings ago…

Charlie Chaplin, from the 1925 hit The Gold Rush.

A Hope for Republicans

November 20, 2007

I’ll try to keep politics out of this blog for the most part, but this classic line from the entertainer of entertainers, Bob Hope, just can’t be ignored.

From the 1940 classic, The Ghost Breakers.

Who’s (on) First?

November 12, 2007

If you’re going to have a blog that’s dedicated solely to fun and interesting videos, you have to lead off with a classic.  Here is one of my all-time favorite comedy routines, by the masters of comedy: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.

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