He arrives at the clubhouse with everyone else, is on the plane traveling for every road series, attends team meetings and is in the Angels dugout during every game. When he’s not doing his rehab work, O’Hoppe is still present. “And we’ve fallen short of that to this point.”įrom Sarah Valenzuela: Logan O’Hoppe has been making the most of his time on the injured list. “In a lot of ways, we have built a lot of our successful teams on elite pitching,” said Friedman, the Dodgers president of baseball operations. They are in third place in the NL West after being swept by the San Francisco Giants this weekend. After leading the majors in earned-run average each of the last four seasons, they’re stunningly 25th out of 30 teams in MLB this season, owning a 4.66 mark that would be the highest in franchise history since 1944.Īs a result, the Dodgers are struggling in ways they rarely have during the Guggenheim Baseball- Andrew Friedman- Dave Roberts era. This season, however, the club has found itself in uncharted territory. Not in the doldrums of the 1990s and early 2000s, when the team failed to win a playoff game over a 15-year stretch.Įven Frank McCourt’s cash-strapped squads were able to maintain the franchise’s long-established legacy of pitching excellence, always remaining at least competitive on the mound. Not in their early Southern California years, when their makeshift home at the Coliseum measured just 250 feet to straightaway left. DODGERSįrom Jack Harris: In their 66 years of playing baseball in Los Angeles, the Dodgers have never fielded a pitching staff with numbers this bad. Selected ones may run in print and online in the coming weeks. Include your full name and your current city. Try to keep it to two-to-three paragraphs and tell why the event was memorable to you. It can be anything, sporting event, concert, etc. Email me at and send your favorite Coliseum memory. In the coming weeks, we will present stories looking at the anniversary, and we want you to take part. Coliseum, which has hosted two Olympics and countless college and pro football games, along with the Dodgers and a host of other events. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the L.A. Your support helps us deliver the news that matters most. MGM tried to destroy all prints, and the original Gaslight only survived because Dickinson had the foresight to make a personal copy.Enjoying this newsletter? Consider subscribing to the Los Angeles Times Strangely, the studio attempted to gaslight audiences by trying to pretend that the British film never existed. Four years later, MGM’s big-budget remake followed. The film was first adapted for cinema by leading British director Thorold Dickinson. In that Googling, I came across this article, with a quote I found most interesting: I now have the 1944 version on my to-watch list. So I did a bit of Googling and realized there were two versions. So when I finished it I thought I had seen the only version there was - 1944.īut when I looked at the credits I realized that some of the actors were not the actors I thought they supposed to be. I know sometimes YouTube posts films that have copyright issues and lies about what year or what the title of the film is, in order to beat the bots that delete films. I accidentally just finished watching the 1940 on YouTube and it was excellent (as in, I was engaged but angry at the asshole if a husband the entire time). It's hardly surprising that MGM tried to destroy the negative of this version when they made their own five years later." Lurking menace hangs in the air like a fog, the atmosphere is electric, and Wynyard suffers exquisitely as she struggles to keep dementia at bay. But in its own small-scale way a superior film by far. Time Out wrote, "Nothing like as lavish as the later MGM version. They also include this note in their listing for the 1940 version.Įncouraged by the success of the play and film, MGM bought the remake rights, but with a clause insisting that all existing prints of Dickinson's version be destroyed, even to the point of trying to destroy the negative, so that it would not compete with their more highly publicized 1944 film starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten. "Encouraged by the success of the play and the British 1940 film, MGM bought the remake rights, but with a clause insisting that all existing prints of the first film be destroyed, even to the point of trying to destroy the negative, Evidently that order was not honored to the letter, since the 1940 Gaslight is still safely available for both theatrical and TV exhibition." Wikipedia includes this note in their listing for the 1944 version. The 1944 version is the better known version.
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