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I was going through some past emails and I found this post from my old Yahoo group
On Feb. 6, the "Old Movie Section" blog posted this "tintype" of
Peter, written by Sidney Skolsky, taken from a book titled "Tintypes". Peter was working on "Crime and Punishment" at the time:
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11/27/1935 HCN Tintypes
By Sidney Skolsky
Peter Lorre is in his dressing room. It generally takes him an hour
to dress for his role in Crime and Punishment. He does this slowly,
intentionally. He believes it aids him to portray the character.
He goes on the set and stands in for himself. He is one of the few
big actors who do this. He poses under the hot lights while director
von Sternberg arranges them and the camera. He does this because von Sternberg, who is particular about lighting a scene and an actor, asks him to do it. It means hard work for him, but he admires von Sternberg.
While on the set he has a favorite drink, a mixture of raspberry syrup and water. He makes everyone sample it. While making a flicker he doesn't eat much. His lunch consists merely of sliced fresh fruit, usually peaches.
He walks about, whether it be in the studio or in a restaurant, much
in the same manner as he did in M. People who have seen him in this
great flicker are scared when they first see him in person. He knows
this and is greatly amused by it.
It was his excellent performance in M which got him a contract with
Columbia. Before coming to America, he signed to play in the flicker,
The Man Who Knew Too Much, to learn to speak English. He is good at languages and was quite adept at English in six weeks. He spoke
better English in the latter reels of The Man Who Knew Too Much than he did in the beginning.
He was born in the village of Rosenberg, Hungary, on June 26, 1904.
It was after he completed high school that he ran away from home to
become an actor. In one early theatrical job he was given a three-
line part. After the rehearsals the lines were taken away from him
because he overacted. The director said he would be a standout by
merely walking across the stage.
He is five feet 5 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds, has brown prominent
eyes, brown hair, and rosy cheeks. A strange villain.
He speaks in a low, confidential voice which cannot be heard very far
away. At the studio he will visit different offices. He amuses friends by acting and making faces. When telling a story he acts out all the characters.
He is a mild, pleasant person. He has a house at Santa Monica to
which he invites his few friends for breakfast or dinner. He prefers
to test by himself in his garden here. He seldom barks. He is not a
visitor to the Hollywood gay places.
He enjoys watching tennis and football. His favorite sport is wrestling. He attends the bouts regularly. He once waited until after
a match to ask Man Mountain Dean for an autograph.
He is married to Cecilie Lvovsky, an actress. They met when they were both appearing in the German play, "The Candidate," and were married when they met again in London. He was making a flicker. They were married during a lunch hour, and Lorre was in the make-up he used in The Man Who Knew Too Much. They haven't any nicknames for each other.
He makes charcoal sketches, landscapes and portraits, and is a good artist for his own amusement. He likes to listen to classical music. He detests bright red fingernail polish on women.
He insists that if he did not have to act, he would not. Acting, he says, is a child's profession for a grown up. "But," he slyly adds, "I love it."
When he isn't working he relishes a big meal. He likes Hungarian
goulash and is especially fond of new potatoes in cream. He will talk
about food and give a lecture on why a certain salami is better than
another type of salami.
He is not at all particular about clothes. He doesn't try or pretend to be fashionable. He always carries plenty of baggage, most of which he never uses. He claims it looks good when you're traveling.
He likes cold showers and actually takes them.
He seldom carries money with him. Often he has run into a shop to buy a package of cigarets [sic], has found himself without a penny, and has had to write out a check for 15 cents. He sleeps alone in a twin bed. He wears pajamas, and on warm nights he wears only the jacket. He always reads himself to sleep.
He has a clause in his contract. Each day before work he is allowed
to run into Boris Karloff's dressing room and frighten him.
#peter lorre#quotes#interviews#tintypes#does anyone have this book?#I've never seen it for sale#I kind of love this writeup#it's the sort of thing I might write to get a sense of a character#only in this case the character is peter himself#🖤#let me know what your favorite detail is#I lurb him
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Did German sweet brand Haribo make it to the US?
#i ask because i got some at the import sweet shop that say haribo of america on the back#i had to get them even at import prices as they were a kind i've never seen for sale before#berry clouds#they taste ok- a little different like all USian sweets do compared with UK and EU#what other kinds do you get in the US? can they be found everywhere or just regionally? I'd love to know
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After like a month of going back and forth I've finally settled on a new mattress \o/
I'm not going for a top line one but after some research I've settled on this one from Rem Fit. It's not actually that expensive. They're doing that bullshit where they jack up the price then give you a code to reduce it to the sale price so it looks like the discount is larger -_-
#I'm paying £250 for it in total with old mattress removal so it's a pretty good price tbh#My 2nd option was around £750 so if this one is as good as the several reviews I've read i'll be happy#I think they normally go for around £500 for a king when it's not on sale if I remember right#Tbh I've never really bought a mattress myself xD#When I first moved from my parents I took the bed I'd been using for a while#then I bought my first king size bed frame and was planning on buying the mattress but the guy sold me a decent one for £50 more#It was a brand new still wrapped mattress#The guy realised he'd got the wrong size for his super king so it was just sitting around#and that's the mattress I've been using for the last 8 years until now#It was a pretty good one tbh. Not really had many complaints with it but it's certainly seen better days xD
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Forgot to complain about it on here, but the Liquid Nails worked on the Outrage but only in the areas where I spread it thin. Elsewhere it just peeled clean off the Bondo. So I have to peel it all off, reapply it, and then sand it. 1000 agonies basically, etc.
On the bright side, I'll only be missing two of Denki Akiba's HELIOGENOMS doujinshi here soon. No one cares about these as much as I do rofl
#textpost#When I translate MEET AGAIN from the GGCA then you will realize....#Sun Tubulardude on about them there niche impressionistic Japanese fanbooks again with the esoteric handwriting#The one that I bought has 'Sol/Johnny' on the cover and I don't know if Akiba meant that as like...#'This fanbook contains these two characters' or more like 'Sol is going to lick more than Johnny's neck in this one' way#AFAIK this is the only one that has that on the cover#But I've never seen the cover for HELIOGENOMS 3.0 so *shrug*#3.0's my white whale. 2.0 and 4.0 exist so there Must be a 3.0 but it's a ghost#The other one I'm missing is for sale too but I didn't wanna spend $40 on doujinshi in one trip lol#Just gonna hope they still have it when I have spending money again
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i'm planning next week's picnic like if one thing goes wrong i'll be publicly beheaded. i'm locked in to such an absurd degree.
#also never shopping in my nearest town again maybe#i saw my cousin's ex who lives an hour away and her friend together which is so....... like wow i really thought i'd seen the last of him#very messy situation#started talking to a cashier/stocker i've spoken with on occasion for several years and she showed me some of her art & poetry (???)#got in line in front of one of my former classmate's dads who tried to proposition me right after my mom died#went to the new dollar store which has four self checkouts & one manned‚ tried to use a self checkout and the cashier said#'we don't have self checkouts' i said 'do you mean today or period' she said 'period' and we discussed how badly that's got them fucked up#they're literally running one of the self checkouts as a manned checkout when things get busy like...#and it was JUST built!! like just less than a year ago i think#i always come home from that town wanting to pull my hair out it's sooo strange!! like everything is craaazy#i also got fucking scammed!#i forgot to check until just now but the grocery store likes to run a weekly sale then not update the computers to reflect it#like they've done this for years and years#and i paid $1.99/lb for apples that were marked down to $1.12/lb so i overpaid a damn dollar#during the panini when it was my only source of groceries sometimes the difference would literally be like $50 because of big ticket items#i'd usually walk out‚ unload and read the receipt‚ then walk back in and get my refund. every friday.#and if i didn't i'd be out like $100/month for nothing on top of everything costing double what it did in the city#that place is fucking cursed. like there's just layers and layers of misery covering every surface.#adam yaps
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pancreas not on the list bc that bitch is a FREELOADER
#diabetic#actually diabetic#t1diabetic#t1d#just girly things#chronic illness#the thrill of it all#useless pancreas gang#anyway#btw the brain is valid#you SHOULD buy another plant#always#there's never a bad time to buy another plant#unless it's kudzu#but I've never seen that for sale
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Okay okay idk if you’ve written a scenario like this BUT… Silver getting his hands on a can of Monster and no one was around to stop him from finishing the whole thing 😃 assuming our boi doesn’t know what an energy drink is yet
I don't think I ever have, but I can imagine the chaos clearly... because Silver is gonna go bonkers with so much sugar in his system at once, haha. Plus, I myself like to think he can't control his powers that well when he's hyper, so that makes things even more hectic for all involved! It'll be a complete accident too; he's just rummaging through a fridge somewhere and comes across one of those cans with the toxic green M on it (I think?), and he knows from his friends that such cans have drinks in it, so he opens it to give it a taste. Then he remembers that his friends say that sweet food often equals something that is not toxic to eat, so down it goes... and a handful of minutes later it's far too late already and Silver can't stop running around. He'll be on the ceiling and no-one can get him down! XD It's a good thing Sonic can keep up with him and just yoinks him outside to go have a race until Silver's burned through all the sugar and basically crashes and Sonic can take him back inside again to sleep it off <3
#I don't know if there's such a thing as sugar immunity in your body built up when you eat it too much (other than diabetes)#but if there is and Silver puts a whole can of Monster in his body while having eaten something sugary like twice before... woops#he'll be sleeping for 16 hours straight and everyone decides that is cute enough to make up for the chaos he caused lol#silver the hedgehog#I've never actually drunken any kind of energy drink myself but I have seen people Under The Influence at a school party once#the two houses beside our party place were both on sale... I figured that if what happened was a common occurrence I knew why#(what happened was that a group of boys was running up and down the street at 11 pm while hollering their very lungs out)#(fun for the neighbours!)
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just saw that post about how you should get army surplus boots instead of docs and I get the sentiment of that and I don’t want to argue with it but the notes were full of people lamenting how easily docs wear out/how lower quality they are and I’m all. what in the hell are y’all doing to them
#I bought a pair mid-last year because they were on sale and I needed a pair of sturdy boots for a class and decided to get something#fashionable AND functional (plus I had the dosh)#I've worn them most days for the past year and they're a little more scuffed but basically the exact same as when I got them outta#the box. and I've been lazy about polishing them on top of that#I really oughta do that actually someone remind me tomorrow to polish them#also wanna say I've never seen an army surplus store in my LIFE what in the hell am I meant to do.#anyway I am making my own post about this instead of adding my tags as I reblog the actual post because I'm a little burnt by saying#my own points about things like this
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speaking of mariana did i ever tell you guys about her accent. it’s accent: waterfall cavern #20664 by prpldragon.
it was one of the entries for the rockbreakers 2016 skin contest, but it didn’t win. the creator didn’t actually have a skin shop and they never mass printed the skin themself afaik. i just messaged them in like 2017 and paid for the blueprint + extra and they sent me one (1) individual copy of it. they don’t even have it on any of their own dragons. i’ve never seen it on the AH, forums, or any other dragon. i might bizarrely be the only user on the site who has the skin, and since i do, it can never be re-entered into the skin contest. which is like. insane to me. my inherently worthless gen 2+ XYZ with a highly sought after yet never distributed contest reject
#fr#flight rising#unless someone else did the same thing i did and directly messaged the creator back in the day#which is definitely possible i've just never seen it posted about#just people commenting on prpldragon's page saying they'd love a ping if it was ever printed#but no sales thread was ever made#the creator seems to have fed dragons so theoretically you could still dm them#anyways.
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Whenever the next mass sale on Steam happens I'm going to grab Oblivion and Morrowind. They're both like $15 I ain't spending that on such old fucking games, Todd Coward.
#I've seen them on sale before for under $10 idk why I never got them already#I mean I could just pirate them but I honestly can't be bothered I'd rather just buy them
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[Start ID. A simple comic in orange and green of the artist's botsona, P3RI, wondering about why there's suddenly a lot more Rain World art than it's ever seen on Tumblr. They chalk it up to the frequency bias, but text pointing to it describes the real explanation as the fact that they happened to start playing right after a major DLC, Downpour, came out. End ID]
this has happened twice
#the other time was ultkill btw. fairly distinct scenario in which i decided to start playing it after people i'm following posted about it#(rather than by chance (because steam sale and my friend got into it)) but regardless i still noticed the explosion of fandom content after#peridots-art#peridots-nonsense#bots#P3RI#still just a fascinating coincidence. i had it on a ''games to play'' list in autumn and then bought it just before new years but i only#started playing it at the end of january??? which. once again i only noticed the new stuff after playing but there are people i've never#seen rw art from (usually hk artists. not big surprise) who are suddenly posting about it#right i forgot to tag this#rain world
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big wins at the grocery store today
#and by that i mean the stuff i needed was on sale#they had this deal that was like 4 packages of meat for $20#which I've seen before but never gone for bc i didn't need that much meat#but the freezer is Quite empty now so i was like ohohoho#anyway i was $30 under budget which means i got to stop at the tim hortons on the way home#good start to my PRODUCTIVE (non-negotiable) SUNDAY
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i think people should stop going to stores owned by big corporations and start buying locally instead (if you can)
go visit that small restaurant that only old people hang out at! go get yourself something nice out of someone's garage sale! if there's a person with a sewing machine you could maybe pay them to make a plushie! maybe you could stop by that clothing store that nobody talks about!
#are garage sales still a thing actually..? it's been forever since I've seen one#so many small shops in my town and yet I've never been to any of them!!#there's an art gallery that i really wanna visit but I can't come up with a good excuse to go!!
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i have just found another book that i've been trying to find for months. but i cannot justify spending £75
#most i've spent on a single book is around £55 and that is like. my hard limit for how much i'm willing to pay#if i'm still thinking abt the damn book in a week or so i might have to consider it tho#unfortunately i will never forgive myself if i miss the opportunity to get it and i don't get the chance again#still kicking myself over a cd i didn't buy 5 years ago because i haven't seen another one for sale since then#so it is a lesson i've learned the hard way and never want to relive again
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I found the Sol cup of all time for sale for $20. ゴタクはいらねぇ and all, you know
#photopost#I DIDN'T BUY IT and I'm probably not going to because I already have like 1 million cups/mugs#BUT I've never seen it for sale before so
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Hello.
I've seen you posting detailed information about the WGA strike and wondered if you had any suggestions as to how those of us not directly involved can show our support for the Union?
Okay, bearing in mind that all this is entirely subjective at the moment (and so far lacking any more useful input from other sources): a few thoughts.
This will be my third WGA strike. (My first one was in 1988, just after I'd made my first live action sale—s1e6 of ST:TNG). And the thought keeps occurring to me at the moment that this time out, there's a potentially gamechanging player on the field that wasn't there before: truly pervasive social media.
(Adding a cut here, because this goes on a bit...)
In 2007, social media as we now understand it was still in its cradle. Now, though, those of us who're striking can make our voices much more widely heard. And so can those of us who're not, but just want to show solidarity. Last time, the AMPTP was able to do pretty much what it wanted without the public noticing or having even a medium-profile way to make their feelings known. But this time? Not so much.
So as an otherwise uninvolved person who wants to show solidarity, I'd start with something seemingly low-value. If I was on Twitter, I'd start routinely tweeting about the strike and my support for it—not obsessively, just persistently, a couple/few times a week—using the Twitter hashtags that are gaining ground even now, such as #DoTheWriteThing (and of course #WGAStrike). I would make sure I was following @WGAEast and @WGAWest, to keep an eye on what's going on.
Additionally: I would start politely, but repeatedly—again, maybe once or twice a week at least, and not stopping—tweeting the various major players in the AMPTP, especially the streamers: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu et al. I would start suggesting that their current attitude toward the WGA's contract negotiations is not only unrealistic but potentially (for the AMPTP) bad for business. (And self-destructive, too, as if this goes on much longer in this vein, they'll be seemingly eagerly casting themselves as The Baddies.) I would suggest that their bad behavior, if not amended by them coming to the table to bargain in good faith, might start affecting both my interest in their shows and my willingness to keep paying unreasonable people for access to them.
I should emphasize here that so far there've been no formal calls from anyone for boycotts or subscription cancellations. For the moment, this strikes me as wise. The point for WGA-friendly observers, right now, would be to keep what's happening to the writers visible: to keep bringing it up: to refuse to allow it to be swept under the rug. The "They only want two cents on the dollar!" angle seems potentially useful the more it's repeated. The point is to keep the repetition going: to make it plain, day after day, that the other side's being not just unreasonable, but greedy. Day after day, and week after week, and (if necessary: please Thoth may it not be...) month after month.
And tweeting is hardly all that can be done. Email is cheap and easy. But actual letters, written on actual paper and mailed, can still create a surprising amount of attention in a corporate office. (The saying in TV used to be that for every person who actually writes in about an issue, there are ten, or a hundred, who feel the same way but never got around to it.) Write letters to all the AMPTP members' CEOs, and make your feelings on the WGA's core demands politely plain. ...Especially when those CEOs collectively made almost three-quarters of a billion-with-a-B dollars in salaries last year, when many of the writers working on their shows can't afford rent.
After that: here's another thought, a little more physical. If by chance you're in an area where one or the other of the Guilds are picketing: turn out and support them! Honk when you pass: and if you're interested, show up and offer to walk the picket lines with them. These things get noticed. (In 2007 a bunch of us, both Guild members and non-, caused significant astonishment by turning out to picket AMPTP members' offices in Dublin.)
...Obviously not all that many people are going to be positioned, in terms of location or their own work and time commitments, to show up physically. But online? Find ways to keep this issue visible. The AMPTP wants this to go quiet, wants people to get bored with it, wants people to find reasons to blame the writers. They've tried spinning the story that way before. Don't let them pull that shit. Find ways to back those who're calling them on that, publicly. They do respond to this kind of thing (though they may strenuously deny it). If enough attention continues to be paid by the general public, they will blink—if sometimes excruciatingly slowly, as Disney began to blink over the dispute tagged #DisneyMustPay.
As viewers, and as viewers who pay for subscriptions to things, we far outnumber them. Help be a part of making the AMPTP understand that this quest for a truly fair deal is not going to go away. And the longer they try to act like the Guild's negotiation positions are beneath their notice, the more it's going to hurt them, and the stupider and greedier it's going to make them look.
...That's all I've got for the moment, as I need some lunch. :) ...But I hope this has helped. And thanks for your concern, and your desire to stand in solidarity with us! It's so welcome. :)
ETA: here's a link to the Guild's social media toolkit, for those who'd like to change PFPs or icons, etc., to show their support.
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