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TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2003
Paramount summer fun; 'Dr. Quinn' first season; Warner summer SEs

Another year at Rydell High - 12:02pm

Attention camp fans, has Paramount got the summer lineup for you! On June 10th comes four long-awaited catalog faves: Grease 2, The Brady Bunch Movie, A Very Brady Sequel and Is Paris Burning? Each is features a new anamorphic widescreen transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track. Paramount will also release the Humphrey Bogart classic Desperate Hours and the WWII drama Murphy's War on the 10th, each in anamorphic widescreen and mono. Although there aren't supplements on any of the above, retail is $19.95 a pop.

Frontier therapist- 12:02pm

Oh, c'mon now, you knew it was coming. Until we get Touched by an Angel: The Complete First Season, we'll just have to make due with Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. A&E will release this five-disc set on May 27th, which features all 17 first season episodes in their original 4:3 full screen aspect ratios and Dolby 2.0 stereo tracks. Extras include the "Jane Seymour: Hollywood's English Rose" episode of A&E's award-winning series "Biography," an interactive tour of 19th century Colorado Springs, an awards and honors list, a still gallery, and biographies for Jane Seymour and Joe Lando. Retail is $79.95.

To the moon - 12:02pm

Warner Home Video has just announced another round of terrific 2-disc special editions on June 10th, which continues to mark them as one of the best studios around when it comes to spiffing up modern favorites. All of the following feature new anamorphic widescreen transfers and 5.1 Dolby Digital surround tracks, and retail for $26.95...

The Right Stuff includes an introduction by author Thomas Wolfe scene-specific audio commentaries with director Philip Kaufman, producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff and director of photography Caleb Deschanel, and the second with cast members Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid and Barbara Hershey, 15 deleted scenes, a 50-minute behind-the-scenes documentary with all-new interviews with cast and crew, additional interviews with three of the Mercury Seven astronauts commander Scott Carpenter, colonel Gordon Cooper, and captain Walter Schirra, an interview with Chuck Yeager, and trailers.

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves includes the extended cut of the film plus 2 audio commentaries by Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, and Christian Slater, writer Pen Densham and John Watson, and composer Michael Kamen, the featurette "Robin Hood: The Man, The Myth, The Legend," additional interviews with the cast, an isolated score in full 5.1 Dolby surround, the Bryan Adams music video, the "Weapons of the Time" 3D Interactive Loop, and a still gallery.

Finally, we have Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in America, presented in its 229-minute version. Features include a new audio commentary with film historian Richard Schickel, the original documentary "Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone," a still gallery, filmographies, and a theatrical trailer.

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