Links 8.17.12

Classic News / Reading Roundup:

RIP French Documentarian Robert Kuperberg,  profiled such Hollywood icons as Frank Sinatra, Martin Scorsese and Fred Astaire for French audiences - hollywood reporter

RIP Biff Elliot (PT109, Pork Chop Hill, The True Story of Jesse James, Good Morning, Miss Dove, House of Bamboo) – boot hill

Iconic comic book artist and writer Joe Kubert spent most of his life drawing brawny superheroes, lionhearted jungle men and rampaging dinosaurs. But at age 75, Kubert began a journey back to his roots, leading him to illustrate Warsaw Ghetto fighters and Holocaust survivors

BLOGS / REVIEWS:

for today’s summer under the stars blogathon roundup on KATHARINE HEPBURN I send you to the other cohost scribehard‘s HQ where you can also check out the many (more than I can possibly link to here) posts on all the stars, yesterday was Elvis

50 Westerns From The 50s : Cameron Mitchell, baseball, Air Force, Broadway, and many great films/TV

that post was prompted by the news that western series The High Chaparral comes to TV, more via thrilling days of yesteryear

100 Years of Movies : In these 1929 Japanese cartoons you can see the beginnings of anime

 Film Flare : In Sherlock Jr., Buster Keaton is a movie projectionist who tries to learn the art of being a detective

FUTURE SHOPPING LIST MATERIAL:

Paramount’s Sunset Boulevard Blu-ray (due on 11/6) will include a ton of extras, including a never-before-seen deleted scene,13 featurettes (via digital bits)

Universal Pictures has announced a 25-film Blu-ray collection to commemorate the studio’s 100th anniversary, and it’s a genuinely great box set

cool pics of the day in honor of Maureen O’Hara’s birthday from ive met some folks… 

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