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Their early audiences called them “flickers,” and it was a better name than they realized. Because as the lights going out on the Hollywood Cinerama remind us almost everything about the movies can end up short-lived and elusive.
Stardom is like that. Actors whose fabulous faces were celebrated on several continents and whose fabulous salaries were celebrated by their bankers could and did die unknown and broke.
So were movies themselves throwaway amusements, no more durable than a Ferris wheel ride. Whoever foresaw the immortality of cable TV syndication, cult followings and DVDs? Physical film could go up in a fiery whoosh. Unstable and volatile, nitrate film stock can actually self-conflagrate. The thousands of silent films lost in spontaneous studio fires were the cinematic equivalent of losing a wing of the Louvre. L.A.’s first film-stock fire, in January 1905, was in a “motion picture storeroom” at 1st and Spring streets downtown. It belonged to a bumpt
Including a conversation about Hynes early days in Test Icicles
27th February 2021
Slipknot s Clown and Dev Hynes AKA Blood Orange. CREDIT: Katja Ogrin/Redferns/Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Slipknot‘s Clown has interviewed Devonté Hynes, AKA Blood Orange, for the latest episode of the metal percussionist’s podcast
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Electric Theatre with Clown.
Clown – who also goes by M. Shawn Crahan – has interviewed a number of rock and metal artists for the podcast, including King Diamond and Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta, as well as bandmate and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor.
Oatly Deviously Sets Its Sights on Oat Milk’s Most Skeptical Demographic: Dads
Kids become the parents in the brand s ads aimed at middle-aged men who cling to cow s milk
Oatly, an oat milk brand popular in Europe, finds a fun way to bring middle aged men on board.
Oatly (in house) January 20, 2021
How do you encourage middle-aged dads, a demographic oat milk brand Oatly says is most reluctant to ditch dairy, to ditch dairy?