TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
By David Lambert - This past May saw the landing of the long-awaited DVD release, The Invaders - The 1st Season. Now CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that they'll finish off the... (more)
datajunkie (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Sometimes I wish I was Robby the Robot. Things would be so much simpler.... See, I wish I could look that cool.... "....and the ice-cubes come out here." I can't help but feel there's some deep Freudian overtones to these pix with Anne Francis though... Anyway, here he is, my brother from another mother, in "Forbidden Planet" - the radio version from Australia(!?!). "Forbidden Planet"! Plus, what the...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
DVD Event of the Week: Is it the latest bunch of 40s noirs from the Fox vaults -- Moontide , Boomerang! , and Road House ? Is it VCI's box set of Honey West: The Complete Series , starring bemoled beauty Anne Francis ? Or is it Universal's The Office: Season Four , starring Steve Carell ? All worthy, to be sure, but for my money it's the Criterion Collection's stunning new batch of Max Ophuls classics...
Shedworking (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
A nice piece in the Daily Telegraph looks at various homeworking businesses including Anne Frances-Fisher's who has a rather lovely garden office at her home in Bearsted, Kent, from where she runs her Damask and Lace fine soft furnishings and interiors business. She closed her shop (thus saving on rent) and seems very happy with her new shedlike atmosphere. Here's what she says: "Customers now visit...
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Honey WestSeries Everybody's got a DVD holy grail, and this is mine! Finally, ' sleek 1965 private-eye half-hour arrives with all its karate chopping, ocelot owning and bubble-bath taking, nicely remastered in crisp black and white. Before "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." and "The Bionic Woman," there was Honey, judo-throwing bad guys, in a black catsuit.Extras Dozens of original '60s commercials, including...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Highly Recommended Delicious! VCI Entertainment has released Honey West: Complete Series , a four-disc collection of all 30 episodes from the little-seen 1965 cult detective series starring the incomparably lovely Anne Francis and handsome hunk John Ericson. And what a find it is for many who may have heard of the show but never had a chance to catch it (myself included). Sexy, sophisticated, and...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Series Title: Honey West | Year(s): 1965-1966 ABC | Starring: Anne Francis, John Ericson | Theme Music: Joseph Mullendore “I first thought of Marilyn Monroe, and then I thought of the fictional detective Mike Hammer and decided to put the two together. We thought the most-used name for someone you really like is Honey. And she lives in the West, so there was her name.” That quote comes from
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
By David Lambert - This past March we gave you a peek at the box art for VCI Entertainment's planned late-2008 release of Honey West - The Complete Series on DVD. Now VCI has provided a look at the final... (more)
Binary Bonsai (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Adapted from a comment I made over at Chris’ blog to help him and his buddies kick start their science fiction club, by suggesting films they should watch. Generally speaking, I think you could say that Science Fiction films have roots in ideas, whereas fantasy have root in the fantastic. To use a comparison from one [...]
FM SHADES (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
RIP BEBE BARRON Another Legend of the Early Electronic World has past on. Louis & Bebe Barron's atmospheric, eerie and sinister electronic soundtrack to the cult classic sci-fi movie from 1956, Forbidden Planet starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen and Robby the Robot. The groundbreaking Forbidden Planet soundtrack is credited as the first all-electronic music soundtrack for a major...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
YouTube via scootermccrae "Yet another attempt to deliver the most amazing electronic sounds possible with my meager talents holding on tight to the controls of a spectacular modular sound generating system. Give this one two or three minutes to warm up; I promise the second half delivers stuff that sounds like Robby the Robot barfing Anne Francis a star-sapphire encrusted dress. (Also want to note...
io9 (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
You know you want to see it in all its sexy robotic glory, so click through. P.S. What's a Brannock device, you say? It's that foot-measuring doohickey you didn't realize had such a noble... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
STEVE Irwin's father Bob says he walked away from Australia Zoo because he felt that he was becoming a "disrupting influence".
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Nat Hiken - 1969 Universal Region 1 DVD The Love God? almost defies description. In its own peculiar way, Nat Hiken's film encapsulates the confusion of late Sixties, simultaneously progressive and conservative, hip and square, nostalgic and progressive. Hiken...
The Bleeding Tree (Free subscription) | 02/23/2008
I didn't check, but I'd guess that it's easy to find online appreciations of the lovely Anne Francis , who starred on the Honey West TV series, among many other things. I would like to take a brief moment to make note of the talents of her co-star, John Ericson , who played Honey's partner, Sam Bolt. Admittedly, my first reaction to him was to see him as kind a low-rent Marlon Brando. He has something...
