Home Media Magazine - August 24, 2008 - (Page 7) www.homemediamagazine.com MENU FROM THE EDITOR BY THOMAS K. ARNOLD, PUBLISHER www.homemediamagazine.com Sifting Through the DVD Riches PUBLISHER & EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Thomas K. Arnold EDITOR IN CHIEF Stephanie Prange EDITORIAL Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelique Flores Senior Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erik Gruenwedel Senior Reporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Tribbey Assistant Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Latchem Associate Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Billy Gil, Kyra Kudick Contributors. . . . . . . . . John Gaudiosi, Anne Sherber, Fred Topel, Ralph Tribbey, Holly J. Wagner Interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lana Chichakly, Carrie Widder ART Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Jennifer Guerena For reprints, call 800-290-5460, ext. 100 or HomeMediaMagazine@reprintbuyer. com For direct-mail lists, call Ilene Schwartz, Kroll Direct, 216/371-1667 FAX 216/371-1669 ilene@krolldirect.com ll right, so I am trying, hard, to weed out my DVD And then there are collections like 20th Century Fox’s Bette collection, getting rid of movies that are still in shrink Davis set, which consists of five classics, each encased in wrap five years after I brought them home. But I tell slimpacks. I showed Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte to my kids you, it isn’t easy. For every movie I toss out, I bring home and — three boys, ages 6, 10 and 12 — and they were mesmerresolve to keep at least two others, and invariably it’s something ized, to the point where they insisted I postpone bedtime grand such as those pesky ultimate collector’s editions from until they could watch at least some of the extras, including Warner Home Video or Genius Products’ elaborate Miriam a making-of documentary that prompted them to clamor for Collection releases. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. As for me, And I ask you, what’s not to love about FOR EVERY MOVIE I TOSS Charlotte led me to check out the other movsomething like Warner’s recent The Rat OUT, I BRING HOME AND ies in the collection. I just finished Phone Pack: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, a weighty RESOLVE TO KEEP Call from a Stranger, in which Davis has a boxed set that contains not just the classic AT LEAST TWO OTHERS, small but rich role as the bedridden wife of Rat Pack movies Ocean’s 11, Robin and the 7 AND INVARIABLY IT’S an annoying traveling salesman, and I am Hoods, 4 for Texas and Sergeants 3, but also SOMETHING GRAND. anxiously awaiting my next free evening, a positively compelling booklet of original when I intend to watch All About Eve, a theatrical ads and articles, a stack of miniature stills and must-see movie I confess I’ve never seen. lobby cards, a deck of Rat Pack cards and a mail-in offer for This is all good stuff, my friends. Very good stuff. But for a guy free original movie poster reproductions of all four films? like me who’s been collecting DVDs ever since the first batch of It’s a movie buff’s dream, that’s what it is, and something releases arrived in a black box from Warner Home Video back I treasure so much I’ve actually filed it away in a book case in March 1997, it’s problematic as well. that also is home to first editions of classic novels by WilI need more time. That, and maybe a room addition. liam Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, among others. Thomas K. Arnold’s e-mail address is tarnold@questex.com MARKETING Marketing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristina Kronenberg 714/338-6743 Marketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaitlyn DeWaard IN THIS ISSUE AUG. 24-30, 2008 / VOL. 30 / NO. 34 News …………………………… 10 Hastings posts a profit drop, despite more home entertainment revenue; Netflix recovers from a shipping snafu; Morningstar starts U.S. distribution. 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