Barry Maher's Overlooked Newsletter

A Quick Glimpse of Overlooked Books, Songs,

Films and Stories from Any Era

Overlooked Film

 

It's overlooked today, but check out this astonishing

12 minute clip from Harold Lloyd's Safety Last. You'll see why Lloyd was such a huge star in 1923. He didn't have CGI or anything like the special effects that came later. But the street you see below him is the actual street, in real time.

 

To see how it was done.

 

For the complete film, click the blue oval below.

 
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Overlooked Song 

 

For those of us who've lived in L.A. and those of us who haven't, this month's overlooked song is Jerry Jeff Walker's version of Guy Clark's L.A. Freeway. Click "learn more" below to hear why we picked it.

 
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Overlooked Story

 

Less than three weeks after Acapulco was trashed by an other-worldly hurricane, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies spent three hours with a Peruvian journalist who presented evidence of “non-human beings who were not part of our terrestrial evolution.” Astonishingly enough, that claim proved to be demonstrably true. The remains were definitely not human.

 

According to the Peruvian prosecutor’s office, the "mummies" were “recently manufactured dolls . . . covered with a mixture of paper and synthetic glue to simulate the presence of skin.” Nice to see the Mexican Chamber of Deputies is now functioning on the level of the U.S. Congress.

 
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Overlooked Book

 

Sound Is Not Enough: The Art of Captioning for Universal Access by Svetlana Kouznetsova.

 

An important book that, according to the Booklife Prize, "examines how providing accommodations and resources for deaf and hard-or-hearing individuals can not only meet the needs of an underserved community but can also increase profits."

 
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Bio Fact You Might as Well

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In my impoverished youth I was published in over 100 different publications. That made me enough that I could afford to live on the beach. Not on a house on the beach. On the beach. With the sand and the seagulls.

 
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