Once again, I’ve culled the list of future releases,
and have pulled out the titles that interest me the
most.

First, the genre releases:

• 3rd
  Rock From
  The Sun – Season One: I still laugh every time I
  think of the
  Physics charades, or Harry’s job at the video
  store.
• Star
  Trek
  Enterprise – Season Two: For some reason, the
  “Star Trek” portion
  of the title crept back in for the DVD releases.
  Perhaps it’s there
  to remind people why they’re paying so much for this
  stuff.
• Steamboy
  –
  Director’s Cut (Widescreen Edition): Contains 5.1
  audio tracks in
  English and Japanese. (Personally, I like my foreign
  films subtitled,
  as the dubbing rarely has the same emotional overtones
  in the voices.)

Now, the non-genre releases:

• There is a huge list of A & E biography
  releases, including
  Adam and Eve, Alexander Graham Bell, Arnold
  Schwarzenegger, Bob Dylan,
  Bruce Lee, Bugsy Siegel, Carol Burnett, Christopher
  Columbus,
  Condoleeza Rice, Davy Crockett, Frida Kahlo, Genghis
  Khan, Irving
  Berlin, James Dean, Jesus, Jimmy Hoffa, John and
  Abigail Adams, John
  Wilkes Booth, Johnny Cash, Julia Child, Katharine
  Hepburn, Kind David,
  Laura Bush, Louis B. Mayer (the second M in “MGM,” who
  predicted that
  he’d have the largest funeral attendence in Hollywood
  history because
  so many people would want to make sure he was dead),
  Mata Hari, Mike
  Tyson, Oscar Wilde, and Susan B. Anthony. You can get
  to all of them
  through this
  link, which also includes Biography releases from
  the past waves.
• Gilligan’s
  Island – Season Three: This will complete the
  series.
• The
  Jerk (26th
  Anniversary Edition): This was Steve Martin’s
  first big hit. I’ve
  seen it, and I don’t understand its success.
• The
  Mary Tyler
  Moore Show – The Complete Second Season: Those who
  picked up
  season one when it first came out can finally stop
  waiting for season
  two.

Finally, the pick of the week. Remington
Steele –
Season One: This introduced the world to Pierce
Brosnan, who did
better work here than as James Bond. This show should
have lasted
longer; if memory serves, we never did find out who
the guy really
was. For those who don’t know the premise, a female
private
investigator finds that nobody wants to hire a woman,
so she made up a
name, claimed this fictional person was her boss, and
got the work
because people thought they were hiring a man and his
assistant. Then
Pierce Brosnan’s character showed up out of nowhere,
introduced
himself to one of her clients as Remington Steele, and
just took on
the role. He knew next to nothing about detective
work, though he’d
seen just about every movie ever made. Highly amusing
series, with a
distinctly original premise.