Michael Giltz: DVDs: Wall-E Vs. Panda Death Match!

My computer was at the Apple Store being repaired so I'm cramming in two weeks of columns in one week and I'll try to be less windy than usual. So here goes.... THE BEST TV BOXED SET OF THE YEAR -- Studio One Anthology ($99.98; Koch/Archive Of American Television) is easily one of the most welcome TV boxed sets in years. Critics often talk knowingly of Jack Paar and Ernie Kovacs and the glory days of live television. But the truth is most of us are too young to really know much of anything about the early days of television except for what we've read in books. A classic example is Studio One, the great live drama anthology that ran on CBS for a decade from 1948 to 1958. This set contains 17 of the show's best hour-long dramas, including Sal Mineo in Dino , a young Jack Lemmon in June Moon and the original 12 Angry Men. The prints are great, the set is bursting with extras and we can finally WATCH these memorable performances rather than just read about them. And while I've always read ... (link)