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You should re-read the stories in Men Without Women. One of them uses the n-word 14 times, including from the third-person narrator. I would be disappointed if a current-day publisher either altered the text of classic literature or published it without comment. If reading a publisher’s brief...

Pretty sure we’ll never see The Complete Bosco HD Set. A complete Bugs set seems a realistic hope, though. They’re pretty far along that path.

Hanna-Barbera made four shows for prime-time TV in the 1960s: The Flintstones, Top Cat, The Jetsons, and Jonny Quest, spending more on them than on their other TV productions. The only one not available on Blu-ray is Top Cat, and I hope sales of this Top Cat movie lead to a Blu-ray of the series.

Did they play OK?

They wouldn’t have a monopoly unless Disney, Paramount, and Sony all exited the business. Seems unlikely. In parts of their businesses, they compete against Netflix and Apple, and trail Netflix badly. A transaction would definitely get a close look from regulators, and they might well have to...

This is nothing new. There’s been speculation about an NBCU WBD combination for some time. Of course some WBD employees worry about it; uncertainty creates anxiety and employees always worry about their company being acquired. Recently, there’s been some talk that WBD might be interested in...

I’m having trouble seeing the good points he’s making. He complains that “it didn’t used to be this way,” but the quality of discs has improved significantly in the last four years, with 4K scans of OCNs and 4K discs. The studios haven’t “let their reliably profitable physical media operations...

In the Extras podcast, George Feltenstein refers to an unnamed famous Warner movie that will released in 4K in the U.S. by the end of the year, but that thus far has been officially announced only in Europe. He presumably is referring to Casablanca.

Please, oh please, Captain Blood

Jim Backus amazingly good in Rebel Without a Cause?