Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet...

...Coming to Blu-ray from the Warner Archive in November: HUMORESQUE (1946), starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield.

...Also out from the Warner Archive Collection in November: Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 4, MUST LOVE DOGS (2005) with Diane Lane, and a complete THIN MAN Blu-ray set.

...Fall cookbook time: WHEN SOUTHERN WOMEN COOK is coming from America's Test Kitchen in November.

...Kino Lorber Studio Classics has announced a November 19th release date for the Western THE LONELY MAN (1957) starring Jack Palance and Anthony Perkins. The Blu-ray will include a commentary track by Toby Roan.

...Recent movie reviews: CineSavant Glenn Erickson reviews the MGM musical WORDS AND MUSIC (1948), on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection, at Trailers From Hell...Colin reviews Gary Cooper in MAN OF THE WEST (1958) at Riding the High Country...Toby Roan recently reviewed the new Blu-ray of WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951) at his blog The Hannibal 8...Stephen reviews Jeanne Crain as MARGIE (1946) at Classic Movie Man...and Tim Salmons reviews Kino Lorber's Columbo: The Return (1989-2003) for The Digital Bits.

...Notable Passings: The appealing baseball player turned actor Drake Hogestyn, who starred on DAYS OF OUR LIVES for nearly 40 years, has sadly died of cancer at 70. I also remember him from the one-season series SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1982-83) which also starred Richard Dean Anderson, Peter Horton, and River Phoenix...GENERAL HOSPITAL star Ron Hale, who played Mike Corbin, has died at 78. Hale also starred on RYAN'S HOPE for 14 years...Barbara Leigh-Hunt, who starred in Hitchcock's FRENZY (1972), has died at 88. She played Lady Catherine in the 1995 BBC production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE with Colin Firth...Singer-songwriter-actor Kris Kristofferson has passed away at 88.

...Please note that Around the Blogosphere This Week will not appear for the next two weekends, when I'll be at the Lone Pine Film Festival and then attending a family wedding. The column will return on Saturday, October 26th.

...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please visit my September 28th column.

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