Mack Sennett Silents on TCM

If you ever wanted a crash course in early silent film, TCM has it for you on Thursdays in September, with producer and director Mack Sennett films and shorts. He was arguably the original King of Comedy.

Sennett's great stars included Mable Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, and Charlie Chaplin, not to mention the timeless Keystone Kops. You may remember he is depicted in the film Chaplin by Dan Aykroyd.

TCM will show 4 films and 83 shorts. You can get a peak from the trailer below.

Eric Stonestreet, Fatty Arbuckle, and HBO

Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family is attached to portray Fatty Arbuckle in a HBO movie. I love the idea of this long forgotten silent film star getting his record set straight. If people know anything about him they know he was charged with rape. What they often don't know is that he was aquitted and there was really never any evidence that he had committed the crime. It was all newspaper creation, which ruined his reputation.
I really don't have any more to tell you about the HBO film, but stay tuned!