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Joe Caruso
Film God

Posts: 4105
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 25, 2015 11:38 AM

The show, the man, his great kindness to many, the longest-running performance ever - Here was a dear perosn - Shorty

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 25, 2015 07:03 PM

Shorty,

You are taking me back in time: before cable, before college, even before my left knee started to hurt!

So strange, we had 6 channels back then and about 60,000 these days...still nothing to watch!

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Joe Taffis
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1592
From: United States
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 25, 2015 07:26 PM

I was also a fan of Joe. Always friendly, and his show had an intimate feel to it [Smile]

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Joe Vannicola
Expert Film Handler

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From: Lincoln, DE, USA
Registered: Feb 2014

posted January 25, 2015 09:30 PM

In 1967, my father was building a coast guard station in Bellmawr, NJ. So my family spent a great deal of our summer at that beach. On of my fondest memories was watching the Joe Franklin Show before going to the beach and seeing the silent comedy shorts he presented. I remember wishing I could get that station back in my home state of Delaware.

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Paul Adsett
Film God

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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 26, 2015 05:56 AM

When we lived in Pennsylvania back in the 60's, the Williamsport Cable Company would carry The Joe Franklin Show from New York, and it was here that I saw for the first time such classics as 42nd Street, Dames, Goldiggers 0f 1933, which just blew me away and made me a lifelong Busby Berkeley fan. I remember Joe chatting in great detail about these films and Berkeley himself. I just loved his show.

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Bradford A Moore
Master Film Handler

Posts: 272
From: Provincetown, Ma
Registered: Jul 2005

posted January 26, 2015 11:16 AM

Very sad. One of my favorite books, was his Classics Of The Silent Screen. Having primarily a silent weekly film series. I don't think a week went by that I didn't open that book for some reason or another.

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Joe Caruso
Film God

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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 26, 2015 12:17 PM

I knew him for a bit, such a gentle man - We are truly losing great people very quickly

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