Sometimes we bloggers are just wrapped up in our own little worlds. Creating and pandering our little websites and checking stats for high numbers and comment boxes for adulations and praise. But most of us are kind human beings as well as far as I am concerned and sometimes some of us figure out a way to use the Internet for a genuinely benevolent cause. Such is the case with the people over at the Celluloid Slammer who took it on themselves to try and raise funds to buy black actor Willie Best (sometimes billed as Sleep ‘n Eat) an actual head stone. I wish I could say I was able to help by running a link in my sidebar for a while but I do not know if I was able to at all. I hope at least a few people from here clicked on it to at least check it out.  I am glad they asked me for even some small support as I got interested in the man after I did a small post on him after a reviewing a film he was in in the 1930′s called The Monster Walks. In fact Willie Best’s performance is the only reason to even watch that movie. I was sent a copy Willie’s obituary and found a picture of his new grave stone. An improvement on what was there before. Nothing.

Drop by the Celluloid Slammer and thank them for their efforts.

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