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FROM UCAS OR UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON? CLICK HERE		Lou Costello, and  Bud Abbott Comic geniuses		Abbott and Costello meet the Monster bash. I'll be there.   new pics page   Come and join some nice people on the Message board Easy to use.  Any probs then email me and I'll guide ya through it.  Emulator, weight training and gossip forums too. Don't be shy, come say hello.
SITE CONTENTS Bud Abbott Lou Costello Pictures from the films/TV shows MOVIES BOOKS Routines Radio shows Who's on first Paid in full Fan made routines Feedback Guestbook Downloads links About me Email me MISC Anyone here like MP3s?  I have some rare soundtracks and very rare 40s and 50s stuff for collectors either  to trade or buy.  EMAIL ME   Emulator CDs for sale: C64, Spectrum, Megadrive, arcade games, Atari 2600 - Literally 1000s great games that were HUGE in 80s and 90s. Email for more details.  Ideal birthday/ Christmas present Email Me		The Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy DVD reviewed HERE Quite a sound review.  As a matter of fact, it's the nicest review of the film I have read. All modern 'critics' hate the film.  lets see... "It is no work of art, but it rates well enough in terms of sheer entertainment value." "And while overall the production values of the film are surprisingly elaborate, the mummy outfit looked like some ragged pajamas." LOL - Can't argue with this.  I am thinking of the scene where Marie Windsor bashes the Mummy on the head with that torch... Production values were pretty good really.  Though dozens of shadows in all directions in the "desert" ruins the image (typical of B/W films) "That being said, this action-filled movie moves along at a brisk pace, and it would have moved even faster if they had done away with the stupid song interlude" Action filled!  It's DEFINITELY the best review I have read!!   I like "...meet the Mummy".  it does move along at a nice pace, but I feel it more of a 'gentle' comedy.  Certainly not laugh out loud stuff, but definitely amusing.   "Evidently relations between the studio and the actors had become strained" Not surprisingly, seeing that Bud and Lou sued Universal 3 years earlier (when making Lost in Alaska).  A+C meet Dr Jeykll and Mr. Hyde did VERY well at the box office.  There next film, A+C meet the Keystone Kops didn't do well.  Then Universal produced this film.  The final scene was very poor when you think of how the other horror films ended - with the horror element taking over.   Anyway, Lou asked for more money after this film and Universal let them go.  Shame that.  I reckon they would of made films for at least 4-5 years.  Enough for them to make enough to get out their tax jam and for Abbott to retire comfortably and Lou to try other things - if his heart hadn't of given way.       NEW Buck privates book.  Aug 2001. Scanning the net for worthwhile A+C stuff to link to (I'm actually looking for new books to buy).  I come across this page.  Apparently, Costello has mob ties, both had high collection of dirty vids and Lou went to prostitutes.  Abbott and Costello meet the FBI is a load of nonsense folks, but makes funny reading just the same.Some woman reckons the boys are making pictures in the after-life.  Have people got nothing better to do these days?  Where did this list come from? Abbott and Costello learn UNIX? New Screen dumps page.  Loads more coming tomorrow night.Just noticed a great touch in A+C meet Frankenstein.  Maybe I am the last to notice but check it out:  When Dracula places the little electric things on Frankenstein's neck in the wax-works museum, Check out the pulse on Frankie's neck...I am working on a new and better film list page.  Here is it so far.FIRST ever AVI file up in the NEW downloads page Come and meet me at The Abbott and Costello meet the monster bash. Held in Pittsburgh, Pennyslavania, USA.  I have been invited by the webmaster of the OFFICIAL Abbott and Costello webpage, www.abbottandcostello.net  to come all the way from the UK.  After my year at Uni, I'll need a break and this is ideal.  June 2002.  Check out the link.  Sounds really good.  We're going as Bud and Lou (I'll be Lou :) if you can make it, let me know and I'll see you there) Getting emails from people in the UK who want to get hold of A+C videos.  In a town centre, (Romford) not to far from me.  I noticed quite a few A+C films for sale in PAL.  All the horror comedies, Lost in Alaska, In the navy, Foriegn Legion and A+C go to Mars.   If I had a second video, I could copy films in PAL for the UK fans.  The best I can do is to make WAV files and Stick them on CD to watch in a window through the PC. I can't do whole films (unless you really wanted), but if you want me to get the afore mentioned vids and pass them on to you or you want the WAV files for the PC, then email me Back to the Event.  Here is the schedule.  Probably the only place in the world that you'll see a public screening of A+C meet the Mummy :0) The naughty Nineties analysis coming very soon.  I re-watched it last night.  I really don't like the way the "Who's on first" sequence is set up.  No one in the audience actually laughs (under the directors orders).  We're meant to believe they do this routine in front of an audience and no one finds it funny.  There are slight chuckles (rumoured to be the crew), but nothing like the laughter you get from the radio shows. MY NEW SPACE HAS ARRIVED!! www.louandbud.com make a note of it folks!  and come back REAL soon :) LOADS of new stuff  up soon... NEW DOWNLOAD PAGE   If I pass my HNC, then I am set for Uni.  They have offered me the software engineering course!  :) OK:  I have done some video files of "Slowly I turned" the most asked about routine.  The new site is being processed as we speak.  I have sent my details off.  Just have to play the waiting game now.   Gonna upload LOADS of cool stuff for you fans when it arrives.  Got it all worked out. Will do a big A+C edit that will play through Media player or Quicktime.  Need to see some clips?  Mail me.  I'm adding in some cool music too.  Any specific music (or none at all) you want over the montages, just let me know. I can't upload though as the files are too big, so I shall be *cough* selling the CDs at a VERY small price.  Just enough to cover post and packaging.  If anyone is interested (though I can't do In the Navy or Time of their lives as I have them in NTSC only), then mail me.  I am sure we can work something out.5 hours sleep in 2 days.  Tired. My day out to Milton Keynes (how long ago was that now??) article (with five other Superman fans) is finally uploaded.  Fans of the Chris Reeve Superman movies may find it interesting95% finished the HNC.  Had a RIGHT nightmare getting to my University interview.  The bloke who interviewed me told me he'd let me in on the second year of the course, but I'll wait till I open the champagne till I get an official letter.Moving servers within next couple of weeks.  Got a dot com address and 50 meg of space.  Done some screen captures and movie clips and an Abbott and Costello presentation.  I'll be doing some CGI stuff so the site will look a whole lot better.Finally, here's an email I got yesterday.  Thought I'd share:I enjoy your A&C site very much. In the US, A&C Meet the Mummy (and perhaps some other of their films) are due out on DVD in late August 2001.In the Navy, Buck Privates Come Home, A&C Meet Frankenstein, and A&C in the Foreign Legion have been released on DVD here. To my knowledge, all are out of print except Frankenstein. I don't know why Universal is releasing the Mummy if other DVD sales were poor. Did you see the Frankenstein DVD? It's excellent, with great commentary by Greg Mank, who also wrote an excellent book on the Universal Frankenstein series. Also, in answer to your question asked in A&C Meet the Keystone Kops, the "bunko squad" is the police division you would go to if someone tried to (or did) sell you something false. For example, Costello should have gone to the bunko squad after getting (or almost getting) robbed by Abbott in the "lemon routine" featured in In the Navy and their TV show. Thanks to Dave for that.  I heard that the DVDs were taken off the shelves due to poor sales.  I'll do some on-line browsing Monday and see what DVDs are out.  I'd never bother forking out £15 for a movie I already have. But I will be interested in DVDs with extras.  A commentary sounds good. Bought the Superman and Rocky Special edition DVDs.  Both are fantastic.  Highly recommended. Anyhoo, if anyone has info on the DVDs, please get in touch.  I'd like to know more and can share with everyone here. Got time now do get back with this site (at least for the next 3 months).  I've started a few articles already. Realised that the worse footage A+C ever made was when they were on Venus.HUGE thanks (again) to Rodney from Kentucky for sending me a great quality "In the Navy" and "The Abbott and Costello biography".  I have "In the navy" already but with 10-15 minutes missing footage!  I had a great evening watching them.  Rodney, you're a pal!  There is a great clip of the boys promoting Dance with me Henry which is the first clip I will be uploading.My day in Milton Kilnes went VERY well.  When I get the photos scanned in and sent of to one of the people I went with, there will be a full article on the net which I shall be linked too. Noone here is probably too familiar with Superman 4 but the locations were tiny. Great fun. I am very irritated with my ATI all in wonder graphics card.  I need to find this lead that will hopefully allow me to capture video clips in Mpeg format WITH sound.  At the moment, I get the picture but no sound. At least Sonic rally looks a lot better with a superior graphics card.  :o\ I am also changing phone companies pretty soon so I get free Internet access, when all this pans out, I will certainly be editing my own Abbott and Costello promotion trailors. I have all the software to include FX, titles, soundtracks etc.  Should be a lot of fun. I have been mucking about with my new software I'll be using to create my "Manic miner meets Abbott and Costello game".  There is absolutely loads to it.  I am giving myself a month to get totally comfortable with it then I will start work on the game.  Lots of great ideas.  This will be the world's FIRST proper Abbott and Costello game. Want to write the review to In the navy but am burned out a little.  I need to swot up on my C++ for college.  Have a big assignment due in Monday and I haven't even started it yet.  LOL. I get a few emails a day now asking me questions about Abbott and Costello.  Nice to know I can do my bit for the fans. I am in talks about getting an extra whopping 50 meg space for this site as well as a proper .com address :)As tired as I am, I did some "Hold that Ghost" MP3s.  Exciting news next week - hopefully.I am off to a place called Milton Keynes on Sunday which is about 60 miles North of London.  They filmed the exteriors to Superman 4 there.  I am meeting up with other Superman the movie fans I met on the net.  Should be quite interesting to walk around the place I have seen on TV so many times.  I realise Superman 4 is very shoddy but there are some of us who still love it ;) the soundtrack rocks.  Speaking of soundtracks, the score to Abbott and Costello meet Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde is terrific I reckon.    Last year I bought a new recording to the whole of Chaplin's masterpiece, "City Lights".  I was taken aback at how fresh and alive the original score is when heard in 32 bit technology. I REALLY wish they would treat some of the scores to Bud and Lou's movies the same.  Stingy Universal probably don't give them a second thought.  All the comic horror films they did had excellent scores.  Hopefully, I am going to get my screen capture card this weekend too.  I want to learn to do screen capturing.  When I do, I will be sticking up clips from Abbott and Costello's movies.  I won't be sticking up the same old stuff you see on the net, I will be sticking up incidental dialogue, like I do with the Mp3s.  If anyone wants to donate 10 MEG of webspace for this so I can upload LOADS of clips and Mps then I am all ears :) Next update coming Monday.   New Mp3s coming Wednesday night - Probably Hold That Ghost Great news for the A+C fans who don't have all the movies.  I have been learning more MP3s software.  I can now upload sound files from the films and with going through this rigmarole I just learned, I can get the files down pretty small in size.  I have just done 6 sound clips from Lost In Alaska.  I chose this film 'cos I watched it the other night.  This film has curious dialogue and strange scenes.  I look forward to doing that analysis... If anyone wants to hear dialogue from a certain film, email me.  Save the files ASAP folks, I plan to change them next week.  Definitely  with a quality film, Hold that Ghost maybe :) Anyways, get on over to the download page for the files... Just spent over an hour playing this EXCELLENT Jet set willy sequel . Though it's for the spectrum emulator and looks pretty poor by today's standards, it had me hooked till I completed it. With the enabled infinite lives cheat, I DID finish it so it CAN be done. At times you feel like you can't get out and you are going round in circles but this design is first class.  It's now 6:30AM!  WOW, if you love platform games, you GOTTA take this one!!   It's having permanent residence in my downloads page :) - Pa'h, who needs a Playstation2? www.clickteam.com is a place where you budding gamers might like to go. Next Christmas should see another adventure of an 8 bit legend. Stay tuned tuned folks.  More details as I get them I am wondering how long it is since A+C was shown on terrestrial TV over here in the UK.  A few do get shown on Sky now and again.  How are people supposed to watch A+C if they don't show them on TV??  PS:  I have the sound drivers fixed !  BO SELECTA!!! Realised what a sheltered life I lead - Saw my first wild rabbit Wednesday. Poor thing was dodging the traffic! GREAT MP3s coming this way.  EMAIL ME and tell me what song you are looking for.  Any rare soundtracks? EMAIL ME HELLO of the week goes to Nichola - umm, forgot your surname already! who has promised to buy me 5 pints on Tuesday if I say hello to her on this site - hhmm, this Internet malarky ain't as bad as I thought ;) The BIG Abbott and Costello Resurgence follows very soon Got to the END of "Grand theft Auto".  Download LOADS of suggestions here.  Only a 10K text file. Had a right lazy week this week. I sat in this chair for 10 hours on Wednesday  playing games.  Speaking of which, excellent news for you gaming A+C fans is that this summer if my materials arrive OK, I will start programming a great A+C platform game.  A big game, the first ever one starring A+C so watch this space as I am going to start a new page and keep you all to speed with the developments as I go along.   Learning some art packages (as you can see).  The official Abbott and Costello fan club has had a good make over and now you can have the chance to write about what you thought of A+C's movies. Cross fingers I get into University this year.  if I don't then there is another route I can take with the same destination.  Re-designed the site as my PC is all fixed now (except the sound drivers - but I have the stereo on now and trying not to think about it).  I bought faulty memory, hard drive AND 2 faulty motherboards!  THAT's unlucky :0( I will be doing a new review of Bud and Lou the TV movie over the weekend,  Still really annoyed the PC lost a couple of hours work the other week.  Have loads to say about it so stay tuned.  Strange movie. I haven't actually watched any Abbott and Costello since January.   Been watching the Roger Moore James Bond films.  Can't help but to like that guy. I will try to find some interesting stuff on the net and provide links here for you all.	l	Made in England   Dedicated to William A. 'Bud' Abbott (1895 - 1974) and Louis Francis Cristillo (1906 - 1959) - click on dates and picture above for early days, the teaming and the later years. 5 Articles to find!  4 things I love with comedy teams that are essential to the performance: Timing, Chemistry, spontaneous ad-libbing and rhythm.  Couple these with a hilarious comedian and the greatest straight-man ever.  Abbott and Costello is the answer. Best viewed in Microsoft Explorer but doesn't make THAT much difference Many thanks to Chris Costello, Ron Palumbo, Rodney Creager + Steve Ellesmore. HUGE thanks to Daniel Simkins and Jeff Mackwood.   Without them, this site (and my collection) wouldn't have half the contents it has.  Thank you guys :0)   I really ought to think of something to  fill this side of the page up... Sure I can think of something...

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