Haven’t seen her around much since the holidays. Anyone have the dope on what’s become of the SDMB’s favorite purveyor of very obscure Hollywood references? She’d be a natural to add to the “Favorite Forgotte Films” thread.
Probably trying to make good on her new year’s resolution of not posting here anymore. She also said something about not eatng a thing until she lost those goddamn ten pounds. At this very moment, she’s probably delirious and faint from lack of nutrition, passed out on her keyboard whilst attempting to signal someone to rescue her from such a grim demise. Or, she’s taking in a movie…
Dave
She hasn’t even mentioned that she has a new book out; Golden Images: 41 Essays on Silent Film Stars. Forget about New Year’s resolutions and missed dopefests; it’s when Eve fails to publicize her books that I start worrying.
Since she discovered the Message Board of the Waimanalo Beach Rotary Club, she’s had less time to post here.
You can find her over there under the UserName Hodaddy.
(Psst, Nemo! Thanks for the reminder!)
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So that’s her user name! I recognized the general tenor of the posts, just not the handle. Well, let’s hope she decides to grace us with her wit and charm again in the near future.
Is it true that she really died in 1933, was cryo frozen and put in a large Thermos for safe keeping? She looks very well preserved. The wonders of modern science never cease, do they?
Oh, darlings, I’ve been leading the life of a flea, but it’s nice to know I’ve been missed. It sounded too high-hat when I “resolved to stop posting here”—what I meant was, there is too much else I have to concentrate on right now:
• My magazine has gone from a bimonthly to a monthly—with no extra salary or staff, of course. So Baby has very little playtime.
• I have to change careers, as I have foolishly aged myself out of the magazine biz. I am no longer even invited to the editorial meetings, which is the air-kiss of death. So I am calling in every favor and contact I know, going to dinners, teas, book parties; from the black & tans of Harlem to the smokey hop joints of Chinatown. I am exhausted. Of course, when I DO change careers, there goes (probably) my Internet access . . .
• Other personal stuff you don’t want to know about. Besides, your lives are all so much more depressing and squalid than mine, I wouldn’t dream of throwing a Pity Party. Someone might {{{{hug}}}} me and I would have to cut them with a shiv.
Awww Eve… Come over here {{{Eve}}}
Now put that down. Eve, Eve plese put it down. No…No…N…
Eve,
I finished Vamp a few weeks ago. Great story. The thing I found fascinating was how darn normal Theda Bara really seemed to be. She seemed like a nice girl who worked as an actress for a while and then got married and became a housewife. None of the wacky Anna Held-like histrionics that I would have expected.
Another thing that I didn’t realize was how short the release periods were for movies of that era. It seems like her biggest blockbusters, bringing in tons of money, were only released for 3 or 4 days. Was there any reason why they didn’t have longer runs?
I just picked up Platnum Girl from the library. The Prologue was great, as always. I’ll report more later.
And Ike’s link shows you have another book coming out. When is the expected publication date?
Bill
P.S. Eve m’dear, you don’t cut with a shiv. You use a pointed remark or a whithering look or a devastating aside.
[tucking her shiv back into her garter and gingerly stepping over Yojimbo’s body]
Thanks, Billdo . . . Theda WAS tough to write, as there were no scandals and she died old, rich and happily married. Had she only been Rose Kennedy’s lesbian lover, I’d be a rich woman today. If you like wacky histrionics, wait’ll I get my Kay Kendall book out there!
Films—there were actually a lot more of them released back then; Theda made sometimes ten a year (not unlike Helen Hunt). And more people WENT to the movies back then, so there was a higher turnover.
“Golden Images” will be out, I hope, this spring (I haven’t even gotten my advance copies yet). It’s from a small press, but I was VERY impressed with the cover art and layout. I’ll keep you up to date; I’ll be doing a Calif. radio show on the 19th and will let the West Coasters know.
Incidentally, theFavorite Forgotten Classics thread was created with Eve in mind.
Since I am very new to this board, I don’t know Eve. All I know is that nearly all of the posts I’ve seen from here since I arrived here have been very, very lucid and a delight to read. In fact, all I do know about Eve at this point is that she loves movies, especially the old ones!
For all I know, Eve could be an axe-wielding maniac who lives alone and does nothing but watch movies all the time! Wait… That’s me. 'Cept for the axe part. 
“For all I know, Eve could be an axe-wielding maniac who lives alone and does nothing but watch movies all the time!”
—Hmmm, you’ve been reading my Author’s Bio, have you?
I am charmed to have a thread created with me in mind—but I have been haplessly begging people to watch “Million Dollar Legs,” “It,” “The Best of Everything” and “The Palm Beach Story” for the past two years, with no apparent success. In fact, if I even mention Lyda Roberti or Skeets Gallagher again, several people have made dark noises about tar, feathers, and rails.
It will probably be necesary to very soon rename the Kelly Drive in Phladelphia to Eve Drive. One must honor ones native sons and daughters appropriately.
Eve darling, put that axe down.
Dave
How about Una Merkel or ZaSu Pitts?
How many movies would you reckon you’ve seen, Eve? I ask because here in No-Life-Having, Personality-Deficient Land, I’ve kept a running total.
Anyway, glad you’re alive and well! Hope to continue to see your informative posts.
Una Merkel? ZaSu [spelled correctly!] Pitts? A man after my own heart! [swooning onto convenient fainting sofa]
Dave—NO ONE really calls it “Kelly Drive.” It’s still West [or was it East?] River Drive. Those Kellys were nothing but a bunch of social climbers from Germantown (Main Line, my eye!).
How about Spring Byington? Henry Travers? Francis X. Bushman? 
True story: In the Philadelphia area, there’s a small chain of movie-rental places called Movies Unlimited (not sure if they’re elsewhere). One day, I decided to apply for a part-time job there. Unlike every other video place I’ve worked at, this one gave me an oral quiz on movies. Two people shot the questions at me, Inquisition-style. And one of the questions was “Can you name two movies in which ZaSu Pitts appeared?” I couldn’t - heck, all I wanted to do then was punch keys and watch movies! But ol ZaSu stuck in my mind, and I can now tell you off the top o’ my head she was 1917’s Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm!
Well, you know, one of those Kelly’s apparently learned that skill (social climbing) rather well. I like to take that route into town. Its much better that the SureKill
DistressWay.
…ahhhh…
Eve still mingles in the land of the Teeming Millions.
::collapses blissfully onto the bed, relieved and overjoyed at the thought::
Hey,I saw It!
Roddy McDowall and Jill Haworth had real electricity, I thought!
"Hey, I saw It!
Roddy McDowall and Jill Haworth had real electricity, I thought!"
[Eve slips the shiv back out of her garter, wipes off Yojimbo’s blood and advances toward Ike, a dangerous gleam in her cat-like peepers]
Hey Eve!
While we’ve got you busy slurping up your kudos, I’d like to ask your opinion of one of my favorite films.
What did you think of “Educating Rita”? Some of the delicious toss-offs in the movie reminded me of you and your Dorothy Parkeresque witticisms.