Author: Ben Model

  • Fall 2009 kicks off

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    Ben Model

    Here’s a snapshot of what’s what with me. It’s going to be a very busy and exciting fall, with 15-20 shows each month. I’ll try to be better about posting, and will try to retro-actively post about the shows I did in August bit by bit. I‘m back in NYC, after a great week in…

  • ReelclassicDVD now accepts online orders!

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    Ben Model

    ReelclassicDVD now accepts orders online with payments by credit card or PayPal. Up to now orders had to be placed by emailing or phoning in your CC info, but the company’s just upgraded their website so customers can buy directly over the website and pay securely online as well. ReelclassicDVD has released many rare silents…

  • Vermont radio interview

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    Ben Model

    I was on the Mark Johnson Show on WDEV on Thursday morning, Aug 13, for about half an hour at the top of the show. I was promoting the Chaplin show in Manchester VT (Aug 15) and the Lloyd show in Rupert VT (Aug 23), among other things. Listen in! http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_black.swf

  • Steamboat Bill in Culpeper

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    Ben Model

    I know, I know…haven’t posted in a long time. This is gonna be a quickie, ’cause I’m running off to Culpeper and D.C. for a weekend of shows. Steamboat Bill Jr at the LOC Packard Campus theater in Culpeper VA on Sat 7/25 and The Gaucho at the NGA on Sun 7/26. It’s a restored…

  • music scanning and other progress

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    Ben Model

    June 18 — My brains and time are primarily occupied with any and all work on finishing up the sheet music book these days, and I’ve managed to wedge in time to check out a piano for MoMA’s Bartos theater, and have been working out details for my August shows in VT and a couple…

  • Sherlock Holmes, with John Barrymore

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    Ben Model

    June 7 — I was hired by Kino in March to record a score for the silent film of Sherlock Holmes (1922) starring John Barrymore, and got my promo copy of the Barrymore box set that it’s part of the other day. Packaging and esp the artwork is very nice, and this should prove to…

  • Cruel & Unusual: shows #1 – #4

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    Ben Model

    Our first four Cruel and Unusual Comedy shows at MoMA have gone extremely well. We’ve had great houses – I’d guestimate 200+ people, and lots of new (and younger!) faces – at every program. Eileen Bowser came to our first show, and will be guest speaker at our last show on June 1st. It’s the…

  • Village Voice article on “Cruel and Unusual Comedy”

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  • Leonard Lopate on WNYC

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    Ben Model

    May 19 – Steve and I were on the Leonard Lopate Show this afternoon. This was my third time on the show; I’d been on (solo) in 2006 for the MoMA Arbuckle series, and in 2007 as sidekick to Jessica Rosner plugging Kino’s Reel Baseball DVD (which she produced). I had a great time, and…

  • WFMU radio interview

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    Ben Model

    May 18 — Steve Massa and I were on WFMU tonight for a full hour on “The Speakeasy with Dorian“, hosted by Dorian Devins and co-hosted by Bruce Bennett. Bruce is a great film writer who I reconnected with in 2000 when he wrote a profile on me and Stuart Oderman for TimeOut New York…