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JOHN CHARLES reviews DVD releases of Asian movies at his Hong Kong Digital website (
www.dighkmovies.com).
BILL COOKE is one of 1500 film mu- sic fans enjoying Varese Sarabande’s 6- disc JERRY GOLDSMITH AT 20th CENTURY FOX.
SHANE M. DALLMANN remembers a time when kindergarten didn’t involve homework and math quizzes.
JOE DANTE can’t believe how great Criterion’s EYES WITHOUT A FACE looks on his new HDTV system. “Édith Scob is heartbreaking,” he writes, “and well worth all the ink [she got] in VW.”
TIM LUCAS had a difficult but productive year, and thinks next year will be the year.
KIM NEWMAN wrote an appreciation of Daffy Duck as an actor for the November 2004 issue of SIGHT AND SOUND.
RICHARD HARLAND SMITH loves driv- ing through the streets of Los Angeles while listening to the original soundtrack CD of THE OMEGA MAN.
BRETT TAYLOR also writes for SHOCK CINEMA and CULT MOVIES.
DOUGLAS E. WINTER was this year’s “Living Legend” at the Northeastern Writ- ers’ Conference, better known as NECON.
VW THANKS & PHOTO CREDITS
Alpha Video/Steve Kaplan (7), Anchor Bay UK (66), Chas Balun, Blue Underground/David Gregory (6, 51), Joe Dante Collection (17 ©MGM), Elite Entertainment (61), Ellie Goldschmidt, bARb Harding, Home Vision Entertainment/R. O’Donnell (11, 12, 62), Koch Media (19), MGM Home Entertainment (20-38), Platinum Disc Corporation (57-60), Chris Poggiali, Poker Industries/Michael Basden (68), Razor Digital Entertainment (5), Retromedia Entertainment/Steve Latshaw (4, 50), Soft Cel Pictures (53), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (10), Universal (9), Bob Villard Collection (15), Warner Home Video/Karen Penhale (8, 40-48, 54-56, 63-65, 78), Tom Weaver, Xploited Cinema/Tony Simonelli, Samuel Z. Archive (49, 69), and also our subscribers, correspondents and those of you who plunk down your hard-earned dollars at the newsstand! We appreciate it! Happy Holidays!
With fond remembrance of Christopher Reeve and Irv Novick.
EDITOR: Tim Lucas. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: John Charles. ART DIRECTOR: Donna Lucas. ARTWORK: Liz Bradford (4, 78), Charlie Largent (front, 40, 72), Pete Fitzgerald (14).
COVER FORMAT: Charlie Largent. LOGO DESIGN: Radomir Perica (International Design Studio, Bethesda MD).
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