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More podcast news today, this time paralleling today’s new CineSavant review. Dick Dinman once again has coaxed Warner Archive overseer George Feltenstein into talking about a new release.

Since it’s a major digital reupholstering job on a classic MGM musical, we can guess that George was a big part of the restoration effort. (Yegads … I just realized that I worked for Mr. Feltenstein 33 years ago…)

Dick Dinman and George Feltensein SaluteWords and Music and Three Little Words 

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A few days ago Joe Dante circulated this article by Jake Rossen, from the Mental Floss website. It’s short and to the point, but I’ve never heard the subject explained so clearly.

The notion of Howard Hughes ensconsced on the top floors of a Las Vegas hotel, ordering his favorite shows to be played over and over again on his own TV station, should be etched in the annals of eccentric Americana. It gives us mental images of Hughes screening  Ice Station Zebra over and over again. The James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever lampooned Hughes’ enforced isolation with a character called Willard Whyte — what a place to go mad … ?

When Howard Hughes Bought a TV Station Because He Had Insomnia
Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson