A Woman's Face on radio

http://oldhollywoodincolor.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/conrad-veidtr-42-04-19-113-a-womans-face.mp3 - A radio adaptation of the movie (Connie's own favourite) with Bette Davis taking over the Joan Crawford role.

Working Wednesday - The Ecstasy of Gold

Working Wednesday - this is very appropriate for writing about digging up lost treasures. Especially Confederate treasure.

"The Ecstasy of Gold - Ennio Morricone ( The Good, the Bad and the Ugly )" (Watch on YouTube)

BBC Three getting axed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/26445852 - Well, that’s us UK Orphan Black viewers fucked then.

And they wonder why people torrent stuff

Worldcon and Jonathan Ross

Y'know, on the one hand I'm glad Jonathan Ross isn't MCing the Hugos at Loncon, but OTOH the way that assholes on Twitter (including some award-winning writers who should fucking know better) have behaved, the mob rule puts me right fucking off going anywhere near that con.

Well played, pretentious SF twats, great job of making us all look like sensible adults.

Conversing with internet people

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2014/03/05/25-tips-for-how-to-speak-to-other-humans-on-the-internet/

Some are obvious, some I’m no good at, and some are interesting - and Chuck Wendig does tend to get these things right.

Connie Vs Adolf

Here’s another Conrad Veidt radio oddity.

This is episode 64 of Treasury Star Parade, a show from 1942 which was designed to encourage listeners to buy War Bonds.

Many of them had Hollywood stars as guests or hosts for big band music, but this one is a little play, in which Connie plays Kurt Schuschnigg, giving Hitler a piece of his mind.

Schuschnigg was the Nazi-opposing Chancellor of Austria from 1934, who had been jailed after the Anschluss, and who, at the time of this play’s recording, was in a concentration camp. (He was liberated by US troops in 1945, and died in 1977.)

Anyway, if you ever wanted to hear Connie slag off Adolf, here you go!

http://www.myoldradio.com/old-radio-episodes/treasury-star-parade-conrad-veidt-ep-64/2