*The Motion Picture Home is still in peril and there have been a few updates including SAG's plans to step in. For those updates please see http://mptfamily.ning.com/ Please remember they still need our help!
*The Rudolph Valentino Film Festival is going SPLENDIDLY! Lets just say a lot of exciting things are going on there...and if you want to be involved you don't need to live in LA or CA! For information on volunteering please see http://therudolphvalentinofilmfestival.com/
*A wonderful person has been circulating the restore D.W. Griffith's name to the DGA Lifetime Achievement award petition. We're now up double the signatures from last week AND apparently (I say apparently because there is no way to verify) have received Kevin Brownlow's stamp of approval (Kevin if wrong write me!) If you'd like to sign you can do so by clicking http://www.petitiononline.com/dwaward/petition.html
*No interest in poor Kindred of the Dust...meanies. Miriam Cooper is NOT pleased! Can Catholics come back as zombies? We should probably be concerned...
*A little wonderful birdie has contacted me about doing a Silent Film night for a pretty awesomely major film festival (not ours...but good guess) this August. We're thinking Olive Thomas. There will DEFINITELY be updates on that especially as it is the first time I've been ASKED to speak anywhere! Usually I have to beg and wear something low cut...
*I'm madly in love with SilentComedian.com. They put up a biography of Mabel Normand I wrote on a Friday night (confirming I not only have no life but am 82). Their forums are amazing, just shoot them an email and join up!
*Thanks to a dear friend I have discovered how much I love Fatty Arbuckle. Look for future long lengthy articles singing his praise as I definitely think he belongs at #2 or #3...sorry Harold Lloyd. My Grandmother is a true child of the 50s and does not understand silent film (beyond ones that make her cry ala Broken Blossoms). But even SHE loves Fatty. Ironically her mother who is still kicking at 91 also loves and remembers Fatty. There's probably an article somewhere in that story...
*Not only is Louise Brooks a sensation at the Silent Movie Theatre but her damn Orpheum show sold out (July 1st) while my computer was down last week. If anyone needs a date and/or drinking buddy *raises hand* help!
*On May 16th the Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation is doing another walking tour, this time through The Mayan and the Belasco. Its free and if you can stay up till 10:30am well its amazing. I hear they are trying to plan a really special tour soon...stay tuned!
*I finally had a chance to view my Mabel rarity DVDs. Unknown Video has released in order "What Happened to Rosa?", "Suzanna", and "The Extra Girl". Seriously they are GREAT quality...personally I think a little better than Kino and Milestone. Chris also runs The Silent Movie Blog...blog (as I call it though now its on wordpress). Warning there is a cartoon of Laurel and Hardy you will never forget as their current article.
*I swear to God I will update Perpetual Flapper more this month. It's more labor intensive what with the pictures and what not. They may soon become video tutorials further complicating the matter. On that same note I'm plotting a similar thing for FTT.
*http://www.dwgriffithforever.com is coming this month! I SWEAR!
*Does anyone here speak good French or live in France? You are needed for two projects especially if you have a love of silent film. Email me!
*And finally rumor has it several Anna May Wong books are in the works. A biography (finally a good one?), a picture book, and a children's book. If you are an Anna author please contact me...would love to feature you!
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