April 24, 2003
April 24, 2003

It's Thursday, and Savant has just spent about 34 hours without electrical power: a power station in the middle of Hollywood just decided to blow up yesterday morning, so I was forced to do shameful things while waiting, like read books. Sitting like a lump in the dark was also no fun ... but we're finally back up and running. While out of action, I find I've made a significant Web etiquitte goof ...

First up is MGM's glowing musical hit, Kiss Me Kate, one of their wittiest and most entertaining titles. Ann Miller crashes through the screen in a red outfit in 'Too Darn Hot', and Bob Fosse and Carol Haney open eyes with his new kind of dancing in 'From This Moment On.' In between is a couple of hours of solid comedy.

Coming in second is MGM's nutty comedy Fatal Instinct, an Airplane! - like sendup of noirish murder mysteries, the kind where husbands cheat, wives conspire murder, and everybody ends up dead. Armande Assante, Kate Nelligan, Sherilyn Fenn and Sean Young are the scheming foursome. The assembly line of crazy jokes is a bit hit'n miss, but there are a lot of good ones, too. With a funny commentary from the makers, and a half-dozen equally demented discarded scenes.

There's been an interesting turn of events that will change the way Savant posts his reviews. I've been uploading, but not linking, reviews for a long time, changing them as needed until I was ready to link to them from this index page. Who could find them, except people I might point them out to, to get corrections or opinions? Everybody, that's who, as I wasn't taking into account search engines. My KISS ME KATE review ended up linked by another major review site in an incomplete state - and it had opinions and conclusions about that title's framing on DVD that were premature. Sometimes one has to write out one's darkest suspicions before tearing them down.

I've since altered the review drastically, with the receipt of new information from Warner/Turner. But a couple of days ago, another site found the unlinked review and linked to it, and it apparently added to a mini-furor over the framing of KISS ME KATE for which I'm sorry to say I am partly responsible. I apologize to the other site for my web ignorance, and will no longer upload reviews until they're closer to being finalized.

Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson

Posted by DVD Savant at April 24, 2003 04:55 PM