Since Fantasy Femme Francine York has retired her Christmas video, we now present Dueling Harlows Carol Lynley reciting the poem “The Night Before Christmas” and then reenacting a scene from The Poseidon Adventure.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFNxxRV2O9A
I have been watching the first season of Room 222, one of my favorite TV shows as a kid, recently on DVD. Of course, I just loved Karen Valentine in it and remember watching her in the TV-movies Gidget Grows Up and Coffee, Tea, or Me? and many episodes of Love, American Style. Click here for a recent update on her from a Room 222 reunion. She and co-star Judy Strangis (who played shy Helen) look mah-velous. (Article also includes an update on one of my fave 80s actors, Michael Pare.)
Room 222 also had one of the best instrumental themes of any show until this day:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaUluahdwM
An irate friend of mine brought to my attention how the founder of Twilight Time the distributor of 20th Century- Fox’s special edition DVDs of its catalog of 50s and 60s movies, dissed the Warner Bros. Archive the first one out of the gate with on-demand DVDs. He claimed that Warner’s is devaluing its films. I strongly disagree. First, if it wasn’t for Warner’s success there would be no Twilight Time releases of Fox movies.
Secondly, though you can see a number of these films on Turner Classic Movies, WB has a gold mine of films rarely televised on TCM such as The Green Slime, and never televised such as Once You Kiss a Stranger and a slew of made-for-TV movies. Even the ones not remastered have received high praise from fans and this helps put the bootleggers of these titles out of business.
Twilight Time is going to release one film a month and so far the its first 5 choices leaving me yawning. The one thing I can say in agreement is that since all these movies are televised on the Fox Movie Channel over and over, adding bonus material and booklets will give them some additional value and cache.
20th Century-Fox is the latest studio to jump on the bandwagon to make its backlog of classic films available on DVD. However, unlike Warner Bros., which offers DVDs on demand, Fox is going to offer limited editions of their titles with many extras including booklets. Click here to read more. First to be released–The Kremlin Letter, Violent Saturday, Fate Is the Hunter, April Love, and The Egyptian. No Pleasure Seekers!?! Grrrrrrr