Tag: W.C. Fields

  • on the Leonard Lopate show, with Harriet Fields

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    Ben Model

    I was a guest on the Leonard Lopate show today, along with Harriet Fields (W.C. Fields’ granddaughter). Listen to the segment, below, embedded here from the WNYC/Lopate website. http://beta.wnyc.org/media/audioplayer/red_progress_player_no_pop.swf(function(){var s=function(){__flash__removeCallback=function(i,n){if(i)i[n]=null;};window.setTimeout(s,10);};s();})();

  • videoblog: W.C. Fields, the Lumiere bros., et al

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    Ben Model

    Here is my latest videoblog, (hopefully) the first in a series of near-daily blog postings I’m hoping to do this month, since I’ll be accompanying one or two shows every day. I discuss preparing for a show of W.C. Fields in So’s Your Old Man (1926) at the Library for the Performing Arts (6/8), and…

  • Madalena weekend at MoMA

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    Ben Model

    Here’s a photo of the Miditzer set up in Titus 1 theatre at MoMA. I accompanied The Last Command (2 times), Old Ironsides (2 times), Sally of the Sawdust and Hotel Imperial over 3 days on Thanksgiving weekend, using the Miditzer. MoMA’s projectionists and A/V staff were terrific getting the sound right, and we had…