To hear Doris tell it, this may have been part of the reason. Jonathan Schwartz recently played an interview he did with Doris in 2010 in which he asked about South Pacific. She said she was offered the part, met with Rodgers & Hammerstein about it, that the meeting went well, and then her...
Actually, it still appears to be on. I clicked the link in your original post and as of now it's listing at £46.34, which ended up being $61 US at checkout. I didn't pull the trigger because the DVDs are R2, but a great price for that if that's not an issue for you.
Overall I agree with RAH, and thought the production was the most well-done of the recent live musical broadcasts I’ve seen.
There were some irksome things that bothered me. I found the use of a live audience in some scenes to be distracting – too loud and enthusiastic in their responses at...
Amazon's Black Friday event was a bonanza for movies and TV season sets 3-4 years ago, but (in my opinion) has gone steadily downhill since then. I found only 1-2 worthwhile deals in the past couple years. When they billed Prime Day as offering "more deals than Black Friday" my initial thought...
"Kiss Me Kate" in one of the few films in which I can tolerate Kathryn Grayson - I usually find her too grating and shrill, as others have mentioned. Perhaps I appreciate her more here because the shrillness fits the character.
For me, the high point (among many highlights) is "From This...
I've already got "Guys & Dolls" and am not terribly interested in "Ocean's 11", so I'm taking the same approach I took with the MGM Musicals set - I'm pre-ordering both the box set and the three individual titles I want (Anchors, On the Town, Robin - currently $13.99 each) and will watch the...
My local Costco (and I assume Costco locations) has the "On Golden Pond" blu on the shelf now for $14.99 if you're impatient and want to save a buck over Amazon's low price to date.
I was hoping to pick up the Blu of the Granada TV "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", since that was the only one in the series I couldn't find at Costco. It doesn't look like it's part of this sale, though, as it still shows up at near full price.
Yes, I price-matched Amazon at Best Buy about a month ago. In fact, I didn't even know what the Amazon price was ... I just asked about price matching at the register and the cashier checked for me to see if the Amazon price was lower. As I recall, it saved me about $8 on a $20 item.
I agree that "Kansas City" is one of the easiest places to spot differences between the versions. The wooden box moment is much cleaner in the CinemaScope version, but the thing that really irks me is the editing at the end of the number. In CinemaScope, the timing of Nelson's leap off the end...
Cosco has some of the individual series sets (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Return of Sherlock Holmes, Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, and Feature Films) available now - over two months ahead of the Amazon Sept 30 release date, and - at $22.99 each - considerably less than the current Amazon...
I agree on all three of your points, Mike. I was quite clear that I thought it was an unfortunate combination of overlapping phrases that sounded strikingly like the offending word - quite different from stating that the word was actually said.
While it tickles me that Joe suspects I'd use one...
I had the same exact experience with my wife early this morning. I was repeatedly playing the WAV file over the PC speakers and she came in from the other room and asked "What do you keep listening to?" Without any explanation, I played the sound bite for her and asked what she heard -- she...
"Kansas City" is definitely not identical in the two versions - at least not the dance. This is most clearly evident at the point where Will leaps up on (and crashes through) the crate. In the Cinemascope version (as I recall) he nails the center of the crate and both legs crash through the...
It's even more of a no-brainer now. I added it to my Amazon cart at $6.99 but never pulled the trigger to place the order. I hopped on Amazon today and got a notification that the price had dropped to $4.99. Wow ... trigger pulled!
David, thanks for the heads up on the Mad Men Season 6 on bluray. I stopped in my local store tonight and picked up their last copy for $9.99. As your post noted, separate shelf tags for the bluray and DVD both read the same price it rang up correctly at the register (which caused a...
Thanks Mark, I was wondering about the pre-order prices. I've noticed that the prices for "Funny Face" and "Sabrina" (scheduled for release in April) have already crept up to $16.98 ... I could have sworn they were more in the $13-$14 range when I added them to my wish list just a week and a...
Now the "Easter Parade" blu-ray, like "Laura" is unavailable from Amazon because it's "under review"
I wonder if it's because of the promised-but-missing documentary. A few of the comments mention the missing extra, but overall reviews are good.
Mark and others who may have already seen it - please be careful when discussing the end of Season 3, as the broadcast of the season has just begun in the US. I accidentally read about "the shock" at the end in an unmarked spoiler on another forum, and it's already coloring the way I'm...
I bought a copy online first thing Tuesday morning for in-store pick-up. At the time I placed the order, it looked like all the stores in the Chicago area had it in stock (this was about 10 minutes after stores opened). When I picked it up that evening, they told me it sold out almost...