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Friend and advisor Craig Reardon sends along a Cleveland Live Music link to an older TV interview that’s been up for about a year.

Host Bob Costas talks with a relaxed James Coburn about subjects that most interest his fans — his western movies, Bob Dylan, Sam Peckinpah, Charles Bronson, etc.. The actor who most influenced Coburn?  Mickey Rooney, Apparently.

The Milestone Newsletter is closely associated with the Association of Moving Image Archivsts, and this month has a link to a sample of the kind of fare exhibited at the AMIA Screening Nights program, described as “an opportunity for archivists to share and to showcase recent acquisitions, discoveries, and preservation efforts — from the sublime to the hilarious.”

The films for preservation are eclectic in nature: industrial shorts, odd commercials, independent efforts. The article explains how Milestone’s Dennis Doros found ways to make the AMIA Screening Night finds available to the public. A link found at the end of

leads to a sample reel of AMIA Screening Night fare … odd bits and pieces of rescued films.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson