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Is that the one with William Dickson playing the violin?
Yep.
The star of The Great Train Robbery (at least, the bad guy featured at the end, shooting at the camera) was Bronco Billy Anderson, who went on to co-found Essenay Studios in Chicago (he was the "A" in S&A = Essanay), where Charlie Chaplin made some of his early films. The studio building is still there, now occupied by a college, and the main studio space is being used as a lecture hall.
Edwin S. Porter, one of the most interesting characters in early cinema, and arguably the first important American director.
Is this the same guy who had Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Travelling Movie Show? It showed the first motion pictures in Nova Scotia, and a much beloved, but now closed rep cinema was named after it.
James Nesbitt has been cast as Bofur in The Hobbit.
Nesbitt is my latest sooper sekrit celebrity boyfriend. I approve of him in anything.
Can you imagine having William H. Macy as your babysitter?
My older Brother had Jerry Lewis as his baby sitter growing up
One of mr. flea's grad school colleagues had Sarah Jessica Parker as a babysitter.
Jerry Lewis as his baby sitter growing up
Wow. Just Wow.
So after seeing it mentioned in this thread many times, I checked out Wait Until Dark, and it was indeed really good, especially those last fifteen minutes. I'm still recovering, holy crap.