The Big Man
New Chiseler piece, on this guy. And check out the rest of the articles too.
Also: a limerick on DRACULA and his mysterious armadillos.
New Chiseler piece, on this guy. And check out the rest of the articles too.
Also: a limerick on DRACULA and his mysterious armadillos.
December 10, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Hey, hows about Alain Resnais and his hedgehogs? (See Providence and Pas Sur la Bouche)
December 10, 2012 at 4:46 pm
I hadn’t thought of that. As the old Russian proverb goes, “The fox knows Many Things, but the hedgehog knows One Big Thing.”
December 10, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Nice appreciation, David. The Big Man had several other leading
roles, as Victor Herbert and more interesting the dramatic “Whom
The Gods Destroy,” check it out.
December 10, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Fascinating! I’ll go take a look.
December 10, 2012 at 6:25 pm
OFF-TOPIC: My Guide to “Unsung Musicals”
December 10, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Lovely! And as I’ve only seen four out of the ten, I have work to do!
December 10, 2012 at 11:25 pm
I’d always figured that as a powerful potentate, Dracula had received tributes of rarities from travelers seeking his favor. Hence the armadillos. He presumably had quite an exotic menagerie back in the day.
Frankly, I find the gigantic bee more puzzling.
December 11, 2012 at 12:12 am
I think that’s a beetle or something. With his own coffin — a vampire bug!
“Harness my zebras, gift of the Nubian king!” as someone once said (via intertitle).
December 11, 2012 at 2:38 am
WC seems to have been in every film made at Columbia in the 30s. His specialty was exhaling loudly through his nostrils while flying into a sputtering rage, his rising voice sounding like his testicles were being gripped by a tightening vise.
December 11, 2012 at 9:07 am
I’m sure that’s precisely the sense memory he used when performing!