Bliss Diss

Came across Michael Bliss’s lengthily-titled Laurel and Hardy’s Comic Catastrophes: Laughter and Darkness in the Features and Short Films, and it’s honestly OK, but I don’t need OK when I have Charles Barr, Walter Kerr, John McCabe and Randy Skretvedt. Still, there’s some good stuff here. But the book is fine. I think the “laughter […]