AtD (37) p, 1047, Little Rascals, casting, method acting and selling

[Ian Livingston]

Uh, Herman Melville register anywhere here?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> some words well-defined on the p-wiki if needed.
>
> L'il Jailbirds. I think that this is more an allusion to Our Gang, known as
> The Little Rascals in a Hollywood allusion---orig. in 1922---but with an
> internal allusion to the Chums??
> I.E. going around doing good deeds, although they are not reform-school
> escapees---although we might call them immature juveniles when they start in
> AtD. Dunno, maybe too too kutely korresponding (on my part) but
> ???[Nah]....maybe an amalgam of The Little Rascals and the others mentioned
> on the p-wiki, but none of them seems to have this plot framework.
>
> Hollywood ignores real identity to cast by 'looks' and reflected light.
> More 'daylit' fiction? Continuing metaphor for America fictionalizing
> history, life?
>
> Cici practioing jabbering "Chinese style" for a silent movie. Getting "in
> character". Hilarious method acting, overacting joke [imho]. Hollywood's
> irreality continued.
>
> Merle, photographer and traveling salesman, here is what Time Magazine in
> 1930 wrote about his work as a lightning rod salesman:"About the turn of the
> century, "lightning rod salesman" became synonymous in New England with
> "horse thief" in Kansas.
> Most industries in such a situation would form an association, hire a good
> publicity man, set things right. But the lightning-rod-makers, while they
> published sales booklets filled with startling pictures of lightning and
> burnt houses, did not have to do this. In 1915 the National Board of Fire
> Underwriters set standards for equipment and ever since has urged the use of
> lightning-rods."
>
> Merle is not a citizen of any state but all of America is home. Merle,
> deracinated American who 'missed' home and family.
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