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Good news and horrifying rumors this week regarding “The Larry Sanders Show,” the best live-action American sitcom of all time. The horrifying rumors are Sony Pictures cannot lock up rights to the highly-integrated music featured in loads of “Sanders” episodes - and we may never see another season-box of the series. The considerable consolation is Sony just formally announced the April 17 release of Not Just the Best Of The Larry Sanders Show, which for just $32.49 boasts 23 of the show’s 89 episodes and a vast array of alluring extras. It’s not a season set, but there’s no way to keep us comedy nerds away from it. The 23 episodes are: 1.1 What Have You Done for Me Lately? 1.3 The Spider Episode 1.13 The Hey Now Episode 2.3 The List 2.6 The Hankerciser 200 2.7 Life Behind Larry 3.6 Hank's Night in the Sun 3.7 Office Romance 3.8 The Mr. Sharon Stone Show 3.13 Hank's Divorce 4.7 Hank's Sex Tape 4.11 I Was a Teenage Lesbian 5.1 Everybody Loves Larry 5.2 My Name Is Asher Kingsley 5.4 Ellen, or Isn't She? 5.13 Larry's New Love 6.1 Another List 6.2 The Beginning of the End 6.4 Pilots and Pens Lost 6.5 The Interview 6.6 Adolph Hankler 6.10 Putting the “Gay” Back in Litigation 6.11 Flip (series finale) DVD Special Features Include: * Documentary: The Making of The Larry Sanders Show * Featurette: Trio * Exclusive Interviews: Personal, Intimate, Indulgent Meetings With My Friends That Are Meant Only for Me to See - Interviews with: Alec Baldwin Ellen DeGeneres David Duchovny Tom Petty Jerry Seinfeld Sharon Stone Jon Stewart Carol Burnett * Featurette: Interview with Penny Johnson * Featurette: Interview with Wallace Langham * Featurette: Interview with Scott Thompson * Featurette: Interview with Janeane Garofalo * Featurette: Interview with Mary Lynn Rajskub * Featurette: Interview with Sarah Silverman * Featurette: Interview with Jeremy Piven * Featurette: Interview with Bob Odenkirk * Featurette: Interview with Linda Doucett * Deleted and Extended Scenes * Alternate Takes * Audio Commentary and Documentary Introduction on What Have You Done for Me Lately with Garry Shandling and Peter Tolan * Audio Commentary and Documentary Introduction on Hank’s Night in the Sun with Garry Shandling and Todd Holland * Audio Commentary and Documentary Introduction on Putting the “Gay” Back in Litigation with Garry Shandling and Judd Apatow * Audio Commentary on Flip with Garry Shandling and Peter Tolan * Digitally Remastered Audio and Video * Full Screen Presentations * Audio: English (Dolby Surround) * Subtitles: Spanish * Closed Captioned From Sony’s press release:
With More Than 8 Hours of Newly-Produced Material Including Garry Shandling in Personal and Intimate Meetings With Stars Like Alec Baldwin, Tom Petty, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, and More, This DVD is... NOT JUST THE BEST OF THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW The DVD Set Also Includes 23 Classic Episodes of the Emmy Award-Winning TV Program, the Documentary - "The Making of The Larry Sanders Show" - and Features Guest Appearances by Jason Alexander, Warren Beatty, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Sean Penn, Vince Vaughn and More The Four-Disc DVD Collection Debuts on April 17 Culver City, Ca (February 5, 2007) - Forget about the 23 featured episodes of the Emmy Award-winning "The Larry Sanders Show" (it received a whopping 56 Emmy nominations during its run on HBO). NOT JUST THE BEST OF THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW contains more than eight hours of newly produced material that makes this not just your usual DVD - not even close! The four-disc DVD boxed set debuts on DVD on April 17 at the suggested retail price of $49.95. This innovative, provocative and hugely entertaining release includes personal, intimate, indulgent visits meant until now for only Garry Shandling to see - raw, real-life situations between Shandling and stars who appear in the featured episodes - including Alec Baldwin, Tom Petty, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Sharon Stone and many others. These unrehearsed visits surpass even the Larry Sanders reality, as they once again explore the core ingredients of the ground-breaking program - unexpected human behavior, truth and humor. The DVD includes the documentary, The Making of The Larry Sanders Show, which reveals an in-depth and surprising look at the process of turning a script into a show that was ahead of its time. The Los Angeles Times selected Garry Shandling’s series as one of ten TV programs that had “inarguable influence” on the industry and this DVD is a celebration of the series’ unique place in entertainment lore. NOT JUST THE BEST OF THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW also features guest appearances on the featured episodes by a wide slate of stars which includes Jim Carrey, Vince Vaughn, Warren Beatty, Sean Penn, Ellen DeGeneres, Jason Alexander, Carol Burnett and Winona Ryder. The featurette "Rip Torn and Jeffrey Tambor Visit Garry Shandling in His Living Room" is a reunion of Shandling, Torn and Tambor discussing working together on the show. Also included are interview featurettes with cast members Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Scott Thompson, Janeane Garofalo, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Sarah Silverman, Jeremy Piven, Bob Odenkirk, and Linda Doucett. The Larry Sanders Show debuted on HBO August 1, 1992, and was ahead of its time, becoming an immediate critical and audience hit for its satirical, tongue-in-cheek look at Hollywood. The series that combined documentary-like camerawork with a clever blend of fact and fiction set the standard of quality for HBO and influenced the development of shows like Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Office. Over the course of its six-year, 89-episode run, the series was nominated for 56 Emmy Awards [winning three: Outstanding Writing (Shandling & Peter Tolan); Outstanding Directing (Todd Holland); Outstanding Supporting Actor (Rip Torn)]. The show also won three Golden Globe nominations, two Peabody Awards, and five CableACE Awards for Best Comedy Series.
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Here’s the timeline for “Anything But Love,” the first two seasons of which street this day. Between 1978 and 1981, Jamie Lee Curtis cranked out “Halloween,” “The Fog,” “Terror Train,” “Prom Night,” and “Halloween II.” Her next film, the 1983 blockbuster “Trading Places,” rescued her from the horror ghetto, but she followed “Trading” with a five-year streak of movies nobody saw: “Love Letters,” “Grandview USA,” “Perfect,” “Amazing Grace and Chuck,” “A Man in Love” and “Dominick and Eugene.” “A Fish Called Wanda” swam along in 1988 and garnered more than $62 million in domestic boxoffice, and suddenly Curtis was all hot again. Unwilling to squander her new momentum, she jumped at this point that into “Anything But Love,” which teamed her with riotously funny stand-up comic Richard Lewis, who was making a name for himself via Letterman guest-shots at the time. Lewis is the reason I watched the show; I was intrigued that ABC would build a sitcom around a comic as dark and disturbed as he. The show, though, was highly sitcommy stuff about a woman named Hannah Miller who just dumped her boyfriend and was relocating home to Chicago to pursue a career as a writer. En route, she meets the Lewis character, Marty Gold, who just happens to be a Chicago Monthly writer and knows of a research position at the magazine. She lands the job, and the two leads spend a good segment of this post-“Moonlighting” series resisting their mutual attraction. Season one, launched March 1989, lasted six episodes and was apparently overseen by writers Dennis Koening (“M*A*S*H,” “Barney Miller”) and Wendy Kout (“Mork & Mindy”). When the show came back the following fall for its 22-episode second season, Koenig and Kout were gone, as was a lot of the magazine’s staff. Peter Noah (“One Day at a Time,” “Alice,” “The West Wing”) was now writing the show. Chicago Monthly abruptly became Chicago Weekly, with a new owner, new writers (including a newly promoted Hannah) and a new editor played by Ann Magnuson. By far the most vivid memory I have of the series is the guest appearance in 2.2 of 22-year-old Tia Carrere (“Wayne’s World”) as Marty Gold’s visiting teen Thailandese foster daughter Cey, who liked to cavort about Marty’s apartment in undersized tops and short shorts, sitting in laps and giving Marty and a good sampling of the ABC viewership inappropriately robust bonage. “Anything” lasted four seasons, wrapping up just in time for Curtis to make 1994’s “True Lies” with James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, thereby setting the stage for her to play Lindsay Lohan in “Freaky Friday.” Herc’s Popular Pricing Pantry