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ORSON, BARRYMORE, HOUDINI AND MORE

Here is episode four of the six-part 1955 BBC series ‘Orson Welles’ Sketchbook’. In this fifteen minute monologue OW takes us deftly through a series of unrelated subjects staring with cue cards for actors (‘idiot boards’ as he calls them), Harry Houdini, John Barrymore, more Voodoo. etc. His ‘weave’ is

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BENNY HILL MEETS…SONNY AND CHER?

As we began this week with a little Benny Hill from his early, black and white BBC program, let’s end the week with another dose of Benny. (This is a practice known as ‘bookending’. Didn’t know that, did you?) Here is a parody of the then new phenomenon known as

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