I've been really busy with work lately and to relax, I just started watching some old silent movies from the early 20th century. I'm sure I have seen these in the past but for some reason it really struck me that Fatty Arbuckle really reminded me of somebody I knew.
I thought maybe he might be reincarnated as a modern comedian and I thought he might have been John Pinette, but I agree with some suggestions that he actually may have been Louie Anderson.
Louie Anderson and Fatty Arbuckle share the same birthday and it was a passion project for Louie Anderson to star in and write a biopic about Arbuckle. However, that did not satisfy my curiosity and feeling that I actually had met Arbuckle. I kept digging and it turns out that he did indeed perform for the royal family in Beijing, performing Gilbert and Sullivan's the Mikado.
I have mentioned before my knowledge of and familiarity with them and also my mom's love of musicals. I have no doubt I was there at the performance where he was a star performer. I was probably about 8 years old at the time and meeting him must have stuck with me and Im sure i had also watched his films later in that lifetime. I just have the lasting impression that he was a very nice person.
I found a quote that pinochle was Louie's favorite card game and I was just reading that Arbuckle loved playing pinochle with Charlie Chaplin and other actors! They were also both from the Midwest! Louie and Arbuckle.
They also both had heart problems and were both the subjects of a sex scandal
I apologize for the haphazard posting style, I'm editing this on my phone.
im just reading accounts now of them both and how highly people thought of them and I'm nodding along in agreement... What an impression that a brief meeting had 111 years ago left on me that led me to do all this research just from looking at a picture and remembering a feeling.
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