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A new edition of Disney's classic SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES is released on DVD today. In a marketing move that was a bit confusing, a Blu-Ray edition was released in early October. I'm still trying to confirm how many of the new extras on the Blu-Ray release are on today's standard DVD ...
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Disney Studios
Good news for fans of classic film in general, and musicals in particular: Leslie Caron's autobiography, THANK HEAVEN, will be released later this week. The book's publication date is November 25, 2009. Caron's book should be very interesting. The stories she tells in DVD interviews (i.e., AN ...
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Leslie Caron
Historial romance author Patricia Veryan has passed away. She was a few days short of her 86th birthday. Veryan was considered by many to be the successor to Georgette Heyer. Veryan's many books are available from Amazon . My favorite title to date is LOVE'S DUET . It has been years since I ...
Movies
SALLY AND SAINT ANNE is a movie I loved watching on TV when I was growing up. Since then it seems to have disappeared from the airwaves. I've been looking for it this year and tonight I was able to see it again for the first time in decades. It's the movie equivalent of comfort food -- nothing ...
Celebrities
Anne Hathaway
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet... ...I rarely patronize Starbucks, but I never miss buying their annual Christmas mix CD, which always has a nice blend of well-chosen tracks. This year's CD includes songs by Crosby, Martin, Cole, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Lee, ...
Celebrities
The Wall Street Journal
Todd Beamer's father, David, has written an outstanding editorial about the Obama Administration's mind-boggling decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others in New York courts. Todd Beamer, of course, was one of the heroes who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11. Among Mr. ...
Celebrities
Barack Obama
This week Turner Classic Movies announced additional information about its TCM Classic Film Festival , which will be held next April in Hollywood. Leonard Maltin, Peter Bogdanovich, and Douglas Trumbull are the first names announced to appear at the Festival. The first films announced to be ...
Movies
Lou Lumenick of the New York Post has interviewed George Feltenstein of Warner Home Video. Feltenstein reports that the company is going to be setting "a higher bar for quality" for Archive releases due to fan complaints. The beautiful film OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES (1945), starring ...
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Warner Brothers
Robert (Robert Donat), a mousy accountant, and timid, sickly Cathy (Deborah Kerr) have settled into a dull marriage in their drab London flat. Robert joins the Royal Navy in 1940, and Cathy thereafter joins the Wrens, leading to a separation of three years. During their military service, ...
Celebrities
Fox News Channel's Pentagon correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, has been off the air the last few weeks as she battles breast cancer. Griffin, who previously reported for Fox from Israel, has three young children, including a baby born earlier this year. I have admired Griffin's work for years and ...
Movies
British explorer Christopher Powell (Ray Milland) injures his leg on a foray into the jungle. The rest of Chris's party gives him up for dead, but he's rescued by THE JUNGLE PRINCESS, Ulah (Dorothy Lamour). When Chris is able to return to his friends' camp, lovestruck Ulah follows him, ...
Television
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK is a very funny early '60s romantic comedy somewhat in the tradition of Doris Day and Rock Hudson's films. I liked this movie from the moment Mel Torme started singing the title song over the opening credits. The film has a good score by Peter Nero, who has a cameo late in ...
Celebrities
THE POWER AND THE PRIZE is a film about corporate warfare mixed with romance, in the tradition of other mid-'50s business-themed films such as EXECUTIVE SUITE (1954) and WOMAN'S WORLD (1954). Cliff Barton (Robert Taylor) is the righthand man of George Salt (Burl Ives), chairman of Amalgamated ...
Celebrities
Salt
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet... ...I love Eric Tan's new posters for Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID and SLEEPING BEAUTY. Click the title of this post for more info about Tan's work, posted at Slashfilm. ...Speaking of Disney, this MiceChat Update has info on ...
Celebrities
President Obama bizarrely bowed deeply to another foreign head of state, in this case the Japanese Emperor -- undoing decades, if not centuries, of United States protocol. As with the Saudi King, the bow was not returned. Instead we had the spectacle of the head of the U.S. government ...
Movies
On a Friday evening just about exactly a year ago I posted photos of our first visit of Disneyland's extended Christmas season, and we visited again tonight. We made a quick visit of about three hours late this afternoon. We said hello to friends, had a nice dinner , picked up the new issue of ...
Movies
There's a fascinating video on YouTube which reconstructs the flight of United Airways 1549 in the seven minutes or so before it ditched in the Hudson River last January. The images are accompanied by the radio transmissions. It really makes one realize anew just how short the time frame was to ...
Movies
Mental Floss has posted a series of links to heartwarming videos of dogs greeting their owners when they return from military deployment. I haven't yet watched them all, but the few I watched this morning made me simultaneously laugh and tear up. The top one, in particular, of a dog so ecstatic ...
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Just about a year ago I reviewed the terrific pre-Code LETTY LYNTON, a romantic crime drama starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery. As detailed in my original review -- click the title of this post to read it -- LETTY LYNTON has a long, tangled legal history which has to date prevented ...
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FIVE FINGERS is a highly absorbing WWII thriller about a spy (James Mason) selling British secrets to the Germans. Ulysses Diello (Mason) serves as valet to the British ambassador (Walter Hampden) to Turkey during World War II. Diello also uses his unquestioned access to the embassy to ...
