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	Amazon.com: The Man Who Laughs: Books: Victor Hugo
		The Man Who Laughs (L'Homme qui rit, 1869), generally unavailable in English since the turn of the century, is the first volume in the series.
		It was the man who had christened the wolf: probably he had also chosen his own name.
		Man and wolf turned their partnership to account at fairs, at village fêtes, at the corners of streets where passers-by throng, and out of the need which people seem to feel everywhere to listen to idle gossip and to buy quack medicine.
	www.amazon.com /Man-Who-Laughs-Victor-Hugo/dp/0962685402 (526 words)

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		Unlike the Joker and most villains who smile, however, he is a good and decent man, one so horribly aware of his disfigurement that he reveals it only on the stage, as a way to earn a living.
		He was dead of a heart attack at 50, a year after "Casablanca." Leni died at 44, a year after the release of "The Man Who Laughs," and F.W. Murnau, director of "Nosferatu" and "Sunrise," was dead in 1931, at 43.
		This is known to a jealous courtier, who wants to humiliate her by forcing her to marry Gwynplaine in order to remain a duchess.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040118/REVIEWS08/40802005/1023 (1260 words)

	1. Chicago. Sandburg, Carl. 1916. Chicago Poems
		Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,
		Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
		Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
	www.bartleby.com /165/1.html (300 words)

	Images - The Man Who Laughs
		Initially, reaction to The Man Who Laughs was mediocre, with some critics complaining about the morbidity of the subject matter and others complaining about the Germanic influenced sets that are supposed to evoke 17th century England.
		So while Kino has provided an excellent DVD edition of The Man Who Laughs, there is still room for improving the quality of the transfer (as you might expect if the Criterion Collection, for example, were to get hold of the film elements).
		Now, The Man Who Laughs can be appreciated as one of the classic gothic dramas of the '20s and a formative influence on Universal's horror films of the '30s.
	www.imagesjournal.com /2003/reviews/manwholaughs/text.htm (1572 words)

	BATMAN: THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
		Pointing a revolver to the camera, the man dressed in purple address the TV viewing audience saying hello then goodbye and proclaims that they are all going to die.
		Batman who is also already in the wearing a gas mask, knows that the Joker was smart to have created the chaos outside and to have cut the power at the same time.
		The man tell him that some of the chemicals splashed on him in an accident a while back and that another co-worker who had come into contact with the chemicals, had all the hair on his arm turn green.
	www.ragingbullets.com /bulletpointfiles/bulletpoints_reviews_of_batmanmanwholaughs.htm (3941 words)

	Isle of Man, virtual tour, Douglas, Peel, Tynwald, Castletown, Port Erin and more..
		The Isle of Man virtual tour, including panoramic photos of Douglas (the capital of the Isle of Man), Peel, Tynwald Hill, Castletown, Port Erin, Nairbyl, Laxey and the Laxey Wheel, Snaefell, Point of Ayre, The Sound and Calf of Man and Siverdale Glen.
		Many famous personalities have made the Isle of Man their home, Sir Norman Wisdom, who* has a house called 'Ballalough' (house of laughs / belly laugh), Jeremy Clarkson who owns a section of coastline near Langness lighthouse near Castletown, and is reported to not like you to walk your dog there.
		The 'Triskellion' - Manx Emblem of the Isle of Man.
	www.vrisleofman.co.uk (788 words)

	victor hugo man who laughs
		Victor Hugo is said to have attributed the esoterical/spiritual aspects underlying The Man Who Laughs to the spirit guides with whom he spoke during scores of "table-tapping" seances he conducted when in political exile on the Channel island of Jersey in 1853-1855.
		The solitary man is a modified savage, accepted by civilization.
		He who wanders most is most alone; hence his continual change of place.
	www.newpara.com /victor_hugo_man_who_laughs.htm (1359 words)

	The Man Who Laughs
		His confession proves beyond doubt that Gwynplaine is Lord Clancharlie's lost son." 101 "My poor Josiana -- it grieves me that she must marry a clown to retain her fortune." 102 "Your Majesty is always the kindest of monarchs." 103 "The clown, Gwynplaine, is still a prisoner.
		You leave tomorrow." 116 "Gwynplaine, the laughing mountebank, is dead." 117 "My Gwynplaine - I can't believe it!" 118 "Make way for a Peer of England." 119 On their way to the London docks.
		Our Laughing Man is back!" 143 "Dea - where is Dea?" 144 "They were ordered to leave England.
	www.geocities.com /emruf5/manwholaughs.html (656 words)

	Lady, That's My Skull: The Man Who Laughs
		For those who have forgotten because of revisionist history, it was Jerry Robinson who initially created the Batman's greatest foe, the Joker, and it was Bill Finger who wrote the first story featuring the character.
		During the process when Kane was fleshing out the character, Bill Finger produced a photo of actor Conrad Veidt as he appeared in The Man Who Laughs from 1928.
		My observation is that if The Bat and The Man Who Laughs came out in the 80's and someone tried to pitch comic characters based on them today, it would be considered a straight rip-off.
	thatsmyskull.blogspot.com /2005/08/man-who-laughs.html (389 words)

	Batman: The Man Who Laughs - DC Database - a Wikia wiki
		She suddenly begins laughing and soon dies with a face similar to the mutilated corpses at the building.
		Police officers are at both men's houses (However, Gordon is at Lake's.) Bruce starts laughing and turns white, but his butler, Alfred Pennyworth, administers a shot to slow his heart rate to slow the spread of the poison.
		The title of this one-shot is taken from the 1869 novel by Victor Hugo entitled The Man Who Laughs.
	en.dcdatabaseproject.com /Batman:_The_Man_Who_Laughs_(2005) (795 words)

	The Man Who Laughs (1928) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A lord refuses to kiss the hand of King James II, so is doubly punished: he perishes in the "Iron Lady" [onscreen in a memorably handled sequence] while his son is sent to a surgeon who [offscreen] carves a grin on his face "so he can forever laugh at his father".
		His fortunes lead him to a blind girl, an ambitious duchess, and Queen Anne, who reinstates him to the nobility, but with further complications.
		The former is the blind girl played by Mary Philbin [who had earlier unmasked Lon Chaney's Phantom].
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0019130 (694 words)

	Lies & Exaggerations: The Man Who Laughs, Clown, Laugh
		Bill was kind enough to send me a copy of 'TMWL', and I'd been hesitant to open up My Lon Chaney collection (with 'LCL') until I had a good reason.
		They were probably filmed within 5 miles of each other, but 'The Man Who Laughs' had much more of a European feel to it due to Leni's expressionist style.
		In his films the man is climbing up the side of damned buildings, when he's not being towed behind a car while standing on a bicycle and swinging a lasso.
	dclies.blogspot.com /2007/01/man-who-laughs-clown-laugh.html (1013 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - The Man Who Laughs Film Notes
		The Man Who Laughs is the story of the tortured "Gwynplaine," as played by Conrad Veidt, the star of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and "Jack the Ripper" in Leni's Waxworks.
		The Man Who Laughs is a melodrama focusing on one young man, the tragic Gwynplaine, a boy forced to watch the execution of his father, a 17th century Scottish nobleman (also portrayed by Veidt) who has rebelled against the tyrannical King James II.
		The Man Who Laughs (1928) was an attempt to duplicate the success of Universal’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/webpages4/filmnotes/fns02n8.html (1883 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Man Who Laughs
		The Man Who Laughs is a superior costume drama with macabre overtones; it's an excellent example of the artistic silent cinema that was wiped out by the coming of sound.
		She toys with the performing artist, known as 'The Laughing Man', not realizing she may soon lose her property to him.
		It's hard for me to believe that anyone who cared about what he was doing could have gotten the shot of Gwynplaine entering the wagon so far out of sequence.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1001laugh.html (2096 words)

	Amazon.ca: Man Who Laughs: DVD: Paul Leni,Olga Baclanova,Carmen Costello,Josephine Crowell,Sam de Grasse,Nick De ...
		The Man Who Laughs, based on the novel by Victor Hugo who also wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame, is a good example of this genre that essentially died with silent pictures.
		Baes on Victor Hugo's 1869 novel, "The Man Who Laughs" is the morbid tale of Gwynplaine, an English clown doomed to a life adorned with a perpetual grin.
		My previous exposure to Paul Leni's 'The Man Who Laughs' probably coincides with the experience of many others: the knowledge that the central figure was the inspiration for Bob...
	www.amazon.ca /Man-Who-Laughs-Paul-Leni/dp/B0000B1A1J (1598 words)

	Kinks Alive! - This Man He Laughs Tonight
		Even the Kink's own self-destructive urge, which plunged them into short-lived retirement in the mid-70's, appears now to be successfully curbed; bass and keyboard personnel changes over the past decade (not to mention the coming and going of backup singers and horns) have benefited the band in the long run.
		What's more, the Kinks have not only survived (no mean feat in itself) but avoided the senseless tragedies that befell their contemporaries the Who and the Rolling Stones - while spending more time on the road than both of those bands combined.
		Like Johnny Thunder (Village Green Preservations Society's rebel who reemerged on Preservation, they continue to cut an impressive figure; unlike him, they are comfortable in the present as well as the past, still able to come up with new twists and surprises after all this time.
	kinks.it.rit.edu /misc/articles/laughs.html (2806 words)

	The Man Who Laughs Movie Review, DVD Release - Filmcritic.com
		The model for all the great Universal horror to follow, 1928's The Man Who Laughs is a (now) rarely seen silent picture that aficionados of the genre might want to get their hands on.
		Gwynplaine (Veidt) is a member of royalty in England circa King James II who is abducted from his father as a little boy for political reasons and left in the "care" of the Comprachicos, a band of gypsies among whose ranks we find a surgeon named Hardquanonne.
		He becomes a successful circus clown ("The Man Who Laughs") performing with a woman named Dea (Mary Philbin), whom he loves and whose claim to fame is that she is both beautiful and blind.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/The-Man-Who-Laughs (439 words)

	The Man Who Laughs (1928)
		He brings the baby with him and they are welcomed by the philosopher Ursus (Cesare Gravina), who finds that the baby is blind and raises them.
		The Man Who Laughs" is a magnificent classic based on the famous Victor Hugo's novel.
		Another point that I would like to highlight is the resemblance of Madonna, in the beginning of her career, with the Russian actress Olga Baclanova, who performs daring scenes including of nude with her amoral character of Duchess Josiana.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0019130 (732 words)

	An Interview with Bret Wood by Paula Vitaris
		That title is Universal's The Man Who Laughs, which had remained frustratingly unavailable on home video, except for bootleg tapes that were not hard to find, but were often of questionable quality.
		To this day, The Man Who Laughs remains one of the finest examples of German expressionism transplanted to American film, and Gywneplaine, whose face has been surgically distorted into a permanent and horrible smile, one of Veidt’s most acclaimed performances.
		The Man Who Laughs is ten reels, and we had a duplicate music take with one of the reels.
	www.gildasattic.com /bretwood.html (5320 words)

	Olga Baclanova--The Ultimate Cinemantrap!
		Olga Baclanova (pronounced bahk-LAH-no-vah), sultry Russian actress of stage and film, is best known today for her film appearances as Cleopatra, the evil trapeze artist, in the legendary cult film Freaks (1932), and as the seductive Duchess Josiana in the influential Universal silent The Man Who Laughs (1928).
		In 1925, her life was forever changed when she toured America and chose to stay, leaving an increasingly oppressive homeland behind for a gamble at success in America, knowing she would never see her family or homeland again.
		After performing in the stage spectacle The Miracle, Hollywood began to notice and offer her strong supporting roles in late silents such as The Man Who Laughs and The Docks of New York (1928).
	www.olgabaclanova.com /olga.htm (244 words)

	DVD Review - THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
		Two hundred years later, Universal’s Carl Laemmle was looking for a suitable followup to his studio’s successful Hugo translation of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, and though not mentioned, I suspect he was looking for a new Lon Chaney as well, and this was the project that evolved.
		Pierce, who brilliantly fulfilled the promise of the film’s title, stayed on at Universal - never financially compensated as befit his contributions - and proceeded to design the looks of the Frankenstein monster, the Mummy, and The Wolfman, among many others.
		An excerpt from a documentary made at the time, showing German emigre filmmakers relaxing in their adopted land, features Veidt’s bewildered child, Kiki, who stares at the camera, and is unsuccessfully entertained by Greta Garbo.
	www.filmsinreview.com /FilmReviews/DVDs/dvrev-man_who_laughs.html (695 words)

	Burning Man: What is Burning Man?: 1997: Speech
		And so two years later, having thought of this morning and night for a couple of years I woke up and it was the solstice, and I thought "I'm tired of this." So I called up a friend and I said "Let's...
		So we went over and we made this man out of scrap lumber in a basement in Noe Valley, and it looked big to us, it was two feet taller than we were.
		And then we hauled it, we called a couple of friends, and there was about twelve of us, and we hauled it down to the beach and we soaked it with gasoline, because we didn't know any better at that time.
	www.burningman.com /whatisburningman/1997/97_speech_1.html (917 words)

	Abominable Black Man
		Sakura is a student who is a fine Asian treat… how fine you ask, so fine she has all the boys wanting to eat her sushi!
		That's right, the only thing that could lure this Yeti out of the woods is the scent of sweet pussy meat' and that's how he got caught, lured by lovely Lisa, cause she's on her way down the isle and wants more than her sacred vows!
		Isis wanted to fulfill one last wish before she got hitched, it was to swing on the tree of the original big fl Yeti, so the Abominable showed up and granted her wish, by damn near breaking her like a wishbone, how else was he gonna stuff her with his meat?
	abominableblackman.blogspot.com (2883 words)

	Silent Era : DVD : The Man Who Laughs (1928) Review
		The highly-regarded Paul Leni film The Man Who Laughs (1928) stars Conrad Veidt as the disfigured Gwynplaine, hero of Victor Hugo’s novel.
		The Man Who Laughs (1928), fl and white, 110 minutes, not rated.
		The Man Who Laughs (1928), fl and white, 144 minutes, not rated.
	www.silentera.com /DVD/manWhoLaughsDVD.html (327 words)

	The Man Who Laughs by *clayrodery on deviantART
		Bookcover illustration for The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo.
		The story follows Gwynplaine, who was horrifically disfigured as a child when he's sold by the evil king of England to this group of gypsies that made a living by mutilating children into circus freaks.
		I understand what you're trying to portray (aesthetically and emotionally) but the elongated corner of the mouth (the cut) seems to me to be superfluous and over-emphasized undermining the emotional expressiveness of the painting.
	clayrodery.deviantart.com /art/The-Man-Who-Laughs-23963650 (448 words)

	The Man Who Laughs movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
		He plays a young man whose features are surgically altered into a permanent smile because his family are political enemies of the current ruler.
		The man is befriended by the owner of a sideshow who first exhibits him as a freak but later finds Veidt gaining fame as a clown.
		A beautiful blind girl in the show loves Veidt for who he is and the two find happiness.
	www.moviegoods.com /movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=13699 (247 words)

	Batman: The Man Who Laughs Graphic Novel Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		A new take on the Batman/Joker relationship is a tall order for a comics writer, but Brubaker looks to the past to show us a more psychologically interesting conflict than a standard present-day encounter between the two characters (of the kind we’ve seen before a hundred times).
		Little touches like Bruce’s slight miscalculation of the effects of the Joker’s laughing gas or his misjudgements in battle give us a sense that this is not the same perfect Batman we’re used to today — and he’s a much more rounded and intriguing character for it.
		Whilst never topping the quality of Year: One or Killing Joke, Man Who Laughs is a good Batman story on its own terms, and goes even further to establish the bond between the two major characters than Alan Moore’s classic story did.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/110838602686679.htm (585 words)

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