|
- Eternal Child - The
Many Meanings of a Mask
-
- Laurel's mask - the
goofy, sweet-natured grown-up child - had its
roots in the Classic Commedia
dell'arte.
-
- The reasons why Stan
Laurel is always entered in film annals as an
indivisible unit with Oliver Hardy seem
mysterious and inscrutable. Whatever
biographical or filmic resource you consult -
Katz's International Film Encyclopedia or
Di Giammatteo's Dizionario Universale -
you discover that there is no entry for "Hardy"
under the letter "H". You are referred to the
"Laurel" entry, almost as if "Laurel" and
"Hardy" were synonymous or as if the two
characters were monozygote twins.
-
- The article points out
that Laurel and Hardy live on as puppets in
The Daydreamer (1966), a stop-motion
animated anthology of fairy tales by Hans
Christian Andersen.
|
|
