Unfinished Business

Thanks to Kathy for sharing this blurb from The New Yorker about a showing of Unfinished Business (this weekend) in NYC.

Yeah, the big cities get all the fun...

Distinguished

This has to be a favorite.

Happy Birthday, Ray Milland

This morning, I jumped into my freezing 8 degree car, in the dark, returning to work after a long time off, and heard Ray Milland on the radio - things kinda feet better after that. XM was playing an old radio broadcast The Uninvited and I just so happened to remember the date...

Holiday Wishes From CM

 

Required, tacky Christmas image.

 

...or if you prefer...

Fueling the Letty Lynton Rumor Mill

Holy cow if this is true...

Via Lou Lumenick's Dec. 20 column:

And finally, there's a pretty strong hint that Clarence Brown's "Letty Lynton'' (1933), which has never been shown on TV much less released on video, may finally become available in 2012. A query was posted to Warner Archive Collection's Facebook page the other day about this "holy grail'' title, which was pulled from circulation by MGM in 1935 to settle a plagiarism suit.

"We're trying and ready to write a check to make it happen,'' came the response almost certainly written by WHV marketing VP George Feltenstein. If a deal can be struck in time, "Letty'' could turn up at the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival (titles announced so far are here) in April and be available on DVD by the end of the year.

Read more on Lou's page.