Distractions » conrad+veidt http://corky.net/dotan/log Ammo for your Dreams Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:06:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 And We Laughed And Laughed http://corky.net/dotan/log/2008/04/and-we-laughed-and-laughed.html http://corky.net/dotan/log/2008/04/and-we-laughed-and-laughed.html#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:29:03 +0000 Dotan Dimet http://corky.net/dotan/log/?p=1659 Via Rob Macdougall, a link to a Livejournal community of historical interest called Were they hot or not?, which could become the go-to place for finding good-looking dead people.

One of the entries there is for the actor Conrad Veidt, who played the title role in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs. Based on a Victor Hugo melodrama, Roger Ebert described it as “so steeped in Expressionist gloom that it plays like a horror film”. The film was the inspiration for the Batman villain the Joker, and frankly, doesn’t this guy look scarier than Jack Nicholson with prosthetic cheeks?

The Man Who Laughs

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