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Fox has no plans to release the title in question at this time. I will
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I wrote Sony twice about Husbands and I got no response, thats why I started the petition.

Fox may not even control the rights to Health. In Altman on Altman, he states that the newly installed Fox exec Sherry Lansing "felt that there was nothing in the picture that was going to attract an audience," and was not going to release the film. Eventually, he and partner Mike Kaplan did a small release themselves. If he bought back the rights in order to do so, Altman may hold this title himself through his Sandcastle 5 production company, just like Secret Honor and Tanner '88 (though this doesn't mean that I would expect a Criterion release).

Keeping it wonderfully ot during these dire times - will we ever see the RKO Hildegarde Withers collection from Warner?

Boy, I sure hope so. I made a proposal to Fox last year to do them all. I have a stellar group of skaters lined up to do commentary--including one woman who actually skated in some of the movies and a man who had an affair with Sonja. Given the time frame (I recorded the commentary for Sun Valley Serenade last December), I think it was more a companion to Orchestra Wives than the first of a Sonja set.

Unfortunately, I am totally out of the loop regarding Fox releases. At the time I did the liner notes for The Gang's All Here, it was scheduled for release on February 7, 2006 Bedazzled, Lucky Lady and Two for the Road were scheduled for the following week. As all HTF readers know, the studios blunder in, announce stuff, and then realize there are legal problems or missing source materials. I had to get Boomerang! at an inflated price on eBay, just so I'd have a copy of my liner notes in case that one never came out at all.

Even when I was doing 10 of these a month, I never had a clue what extras were going to be on the released DVD. I usually did my work 6-8 months before scheduled release. The producers I work with on the audio commentaries are just as clueless. Fox is notorious for asking them to find someone and make an audio commentary with five days before it's due.

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To show you just how small my connection is to Fox, it took me almost 6 months to get a complete set of the lobby cards for Pin Up Girl, Week-End in Havana and Daddy Long Legs, despite the fact that I wrote the captions