tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8129944.post2787526360127177544..comments2023-12-25T03:12:03.872-05:00Comments on Hootsbuddy's Place: Charles Laughton's Account of David and GoliathHootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01108363655472450828noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8129944.post-68269960060447895602008-11-26T10:03:00.000-05:002008-11-26T10:03:00.000-05:00These recordings are from laughtons Two-disk recor...These recordings are from laughtons Two-disk record "The Storyteller", a record which fully deserves a re-release, and it is a kind of vital testament.<BR/><BR/>It was released in 1959, three years before his death, and is a compedium of Charles' lifelong one-man crusade to extend the love of literature: he would come to a town, read a number of selected texts, and entice the public to keep on reading.<BR/><BR/>He started during WW2: he would read to wounded GIs in hospitals, and to European exiles under alien curfew, such as Robert Siodmack, Bertolt Brecht, Henry Koster...Gloriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00895285900033034259noreply@blogger.com