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Dedicated record collector since 1981; partial towards label variants either from or typeset by Columbia Records' pressing plants in Bridgeport, CT (pre-1964) and Pitman, NJ (1964-86). Also prefer East Coast pressings in general, from RCA Custom in Rockaway, NJ (1954-73), Decca/MCA in Gloversville, NY, Capitol in Scranton, PA, etc.

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
W.B.lbl ● 5th Aug 2024		Cinema Square Of Violence (1961)	This movie was part of a 145-film package syndicated by MGM to local TV stations starting in 1968 called 'MGM/7'. This was notable in that neither TV station in New York that split the package amongst themselves - WNBC-TV (Channel 4, which selected 74 flicks) and WOR-TV (Channel 9, which got 70) - would pick up and air this one. But then, this package came out in the same year as the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, plus the mayhem outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and TV stations became instantly skittish over films with titles such as this.
W.B.lbl ● 24th Mar 2022		Cinema Looking For Love (1964)	This was part of the 145-film 'MGM/7' package offered to TV stations for years beginning in 1968. 74 of the films went to WNBC-TV (Channel 4) in New York while 70 went to WOR-TV (Channel 9). (The other film, Square Of Violence, was apparently not aired by either channel, coming as this package was introduced after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.) This is relevant to the discussion on this film because of cameo (and host of NBC's moneymaker Tonight Show) Johnny Carson's utter contempt for it - and no doubt when the agreement on the split of which station would get which film, was made, it went instead to WOR.
W.B.lbl ● 11th Dec 2021		Cinema The Bear's Tale (1940)	The "split screen" gag in the middle of this film (also used in two previous Avery shorts, "Thugs With Dirty Mugs" and "Cross-Country Details") would later be used by Benny Hill in a scene from "The Herd" sketch of his 31 March 1986 show.
W.B.lbl ● 16th May 2021		Cinema People I Know (2002)	Quote: Is there a homosexual accent? I presume Ernie Kovacs' Percy Dovetonsils would count . . . ?
W.B.lbl ● 3rd May 2021		Cinema People I Know (2002)	This syndrome of watching Looney Tunes or other cartoons to "research" regional accents is not confined solely to this film. There are quite a few evidences in the Murder, She Wrote series - episodes set in France apparently studied old Pepe Le Pew cartoons to get a French accent, anything set in Russia led to people watching old Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons with Boris and Natasha, and on and on. Oh yeah, the show must've drawn from the same Foghorn Leghorn cartoons for episodes set in the South, that Pacino apparently drew from for his role here.