Finally! Savant's new reviews today are

First off, today's post debuts a film Savant's been whining for for ten years, when he posted an early article about the need for Anthony Mann's Man of the West, with Gary Cooper and Julie London (found her yet?). A DVD is finally here.

Savant headquarters experienced a major DSL breakdown that, in unison with an inability to directly upload material to DVDtalk, seriously interfered with this site's normally dependable work flow. I won't go into the details, but both issues seem to have been resolved (at least for the moment) and we're soldiering on. And I thought I'd never be addicted to anything, but four days with interrupted net access and dealing with dial-up on strange computers, and I was ready to knock off a convenience store to recover my high-speed fix.

On a more optimistic note, DVD Savant is pleased to announce that he's now contributing reviews to the Film.com website. The first two are for Warner Home Video's Frank Sinatra The Golden Years box and an individual entry for Sinatra's Some Came Running. My new boss at Film.com, Mark Bourne, suggested that I ask readers to offer a short comment at the bottom of one of the reviews, you know, to let the Film.com brass know that they haven't backed a lame horse, bought a pig in a poke or tied an albatross around their necks. (That comes later.) The main DVD Savant site at DVDtalk will continue as Savant's home base, assuming that the website management issues stay resolved, the dam holds, and I don't start flashing back to the long-ago Cambodia protests.

A note for reader esa@net : I wrote a nice answer to your note but your returm email ain't working no way no how. Any suggestions?

For something more fun, Allan Peach has forwarded this great link to a UK site called Golden Age Comics. It has a vast archive of public domain comics from the 20 to the 1950s! Thanks for reading (!), Glenn Erickson