Erik Weems

I manage websites, design books and do graphic design, write, draw and paint

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@SugarpussOShea1 I vastly prefer Tony Randall doing the same sort of role in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter.

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@FlaggHazel2 Bracken fit well into the his two Sturges' films. He did fine IMHO with playing the annoying 2nd banana role in a lot of standard comedies.

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@manuthebest58 I like it but suspect the stonework under the steel brace wouldn't sustain the weight load very long. But in a film it can work forever.

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For quite a long time color artwork was more flexible and cheaper for quality reproduction in printing than was photography, especially from artists who understood 4 color process used on printing presses. The color separation technology for photography was tricky and highly specialized, and only a good sized agency or color printing operation had the equipment in house, whereas any small agency or even a freelancer with an ability to understand 4 color process or spot color techniques could generate color artwork for printing, whether product packaging or ads for magazines and newspapers. A ton of money could be saved with color artwork versus color photography. Then companies like Compugraphic made it cheaper for processing and then printing color photography, and then Apple Macs came along and then Photoshop, dirt cheap compared to what came before. For what it cost to create color separations for some five or so 4-color brochures you could buy an entire apple Mac plus photoshop and prep the separations yourself. Stock photography (and stock illustration) catalogs drove down costs even more. Then the internet came along and made "dirt cheap" even cheaper still. And now comes AI.

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@colleencoble Part of what is happening is that AI "writing style" can have a visual appearance on page or screen and the em dashes now make for instant visual pattern recognition. Its a bit superficial, to say the least.

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I've heard two stories (back around 1999) of London After Midnight being found on a 1950s TV kinoscope under an alternative title, and also being found under its own title in a mislabeled set of reel cases during a film vault audit at one of the studios in Hollywood... great stories with earnest tellers but nothing has come of it yet.

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@SugarpussOShea1 Sounds like a chain of fish restaurants

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@SugarpussOShea1 @noirgal17 Maybe the headband is too tight

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@JucikaDaily Spring planting?

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@Callicutt5John Sluggo's hat

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@SugarpussOShea1 One of the best classic screwball films.

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@DrPopCultureUSA The Uptown in DC is still standing, though currently not screening anything.

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@JohnnyCallicutt Very Bushmiller

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@SugarpussOShea1 By Bark Twain

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@StuartHumphryes A similar structure called "Agecroft" was disassembled in the 1920s and moved from the UK to Richmond Virginia where it now sits next to the James River, open for tours.

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@elonmusk Manual elevator operators were still employed in Washington DC in the 1980s, I know because they were in my office building. It was a very old building near the White House, and is still there and in operation.

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@SugarpussOShea1 Klaatu barada nikto

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@SugarpussOShea1 Thats hilarious

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@AstorAaron Wise chips?

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@hazelflag Sorry, looks like Tod Browning's set for the 31' Dracula. Carole looks healthy, tho.