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    Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format)

    I guess it boils down to that this came "so close" yet missed. There isn't even anything telling us what's still missing. Now I have to track that down from that "easy to find" shooting script that's so easy to find, no one will tell me where to find it. I'd like to ask who the reconstructed...
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    Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format)

    Someone told me participating in Internet forums is like going into a snake pit. I'm just wondering why they understated it. I see what happens if you go against the prevailing opinion. Your ideas aren't considered. The name calling starts. Then we're told we're not special enough because...
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    Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format)

    It's seems hard to believe you missed my point. I wasn't talking about 1963, I'm talking about this home video release. People will probably sit and stare at the black screen, won't they? They won't be walking around a lobby or going to a restroom. So given that, why not stills and subtitles...
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    Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format)

    Well, it all boils down to a matter of opinion, as most things do.If I had been doing this project, I'd have recreated the 192 minutes without police calls/202 minutes with police calls version -- in its entirety -- and if that meant segments with stills and subtitles, that's the way it goes.I'm...
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    Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format)

    How did you acquire the second draft? And why aren't people answering the question as to where a person can obtain the final shooting script from which the reconstruction was made?
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    Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format)

    I could have sworn at some point someone said there would be three things done to missing or incomplete scenes: 1) Video without audio would have subtitles; 2) Audio without video would have stills; 3) When both the video and audio were missing, there would be stills with subtitles. So, yes...
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    Early Color TV Series (pre-1966): compiling a list

    From this list you left out the obscure Norby (1955), the first color sitcom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norby_(TV_series)
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    Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format)

    I'd love to read the final draft screenplay. How do I find it? I can't go to the library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences or any such place. I wouldn't have the nerve to ask that it be scanned and uploaded, because that's just too much work. The post above refers to "the...
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    Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format)

    Scenes with audio but no video have stills. Scenes with video but no audio have subtitles. I thought scenes with neither video nor audio would be included with stills and subtitles. Which leads to my question: RAH showed us three pages of the script, containing a still-missing scene. Why...
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    Musicals: From Stage & Film to Blu-ray

    NBC is saying they want to cast a male actor as Peter, so that will be something different. However, if he's much older than 12, we'll still have to kick in with that "willing suspension of disbelief" Coleridge talked about. It's hard to buy a boy who never grew up if he has five o'clock shadow.
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    Musicals: From Stage & Film to Blu-ray

    The 1967 NBC Ethel Merman Annie Get Your Gun is no longer in existence. The story goes that in 1972, an NBC executive, in an economy move, erased all of NBC's tapes of everything so they could be reused.
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    Missing roadshows from FOX-

    What do you think the odds of ever getting Porgy and Bess are?
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    Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format)

    Everyone seems to know what website you're referring to, but I don't. Could someone tell me, in a private message if necessary? The reason is that I shake my head when I read negative opinions of MAD WORLD, and that helps clear my sinuses.
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    Musicals: From Stage & Film to Blu-ray

    Orbach may have said that, but it doesn't ring true. If it is true, he has the world's worst agent. But I always heard the movie of She Loves Me was going to reunite Julie Andrews with Dick Van Dyke.
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