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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Aug 18, 2005 21:51:11 GMT -5
LOL!!!!! With all that looking over his shoulder it's a wonder Steele didn't take holy orders in a Tibetan monastery! Or he could have just gone to the monastery in Vintage Steele. He would have had more fun there, with lots of wine to drink, and let's not forget the charades.
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Post by Ace on Aug 19, 2005 0:25:55 GMT -5
LOL!!!!! With all that looking over his shoulder it's a wonder Steele didn't take holy orders in a Tibetan monastery! Or he could have just gone to the monastery in Vintage Steele. He would have had more fun there, with lots of wine to drink, and let's not forget the charades. Even with all that lovely wine and charades it's easier to believe Mr Steele could take a vow of celibacy than he could a vow of silence. Ace
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Post by Yuliya on Aug 19, 2005 9:58:25 GMT -5
Myrtle, original scripts are available for purchase from a few online sites (like movie-page or Script City) and quite a few not online stores (can't name any) but most of us just trade with each other - exchange scripts that we have for those we still haven't.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Aug 23, 2005 18:51:20 GMT -5
Thanks for the links. I wasn't in the market for scripts, but did check them out. The first link only had movie scripts. The second link, Script City, definitely has lots of RS scripts. It says there are 91. The list doesn't look that long, but I'll take their word for it. There are some odd ones listed: Memory of Steele, 2hr PILOT LICENCE TO STEELE, RED-HOT STEELE, MADE IN BULGARIA, AND THEN THERE WAS STEEELE, STEELE RIBBED*pages!, plus the above-mentioned titles in my original post. Now I know where to go if I want to buy scripts.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Aug 23, 2005 18:54:58 GMT -5
This is an excerpt from the Boston Globe Sat, 20 Aug 2005 online: What else is underrated? Globe critics weigh in . . . August 21, 2005 They are the Rodney Dangerfields of popular culture -- the bands, movies, and TV shows that just don't get enough respect. How hard is it to praise ''Seinfeld"? Not very. But to write in defense of ''Remington Steele," a show that helped launch ''must-see" TV? That takes a little nerve, and a deft touch. Below, Globe writers make cases for the unsung, the overlooked, and the critically dismissed. HENRY MANCINI Sure, everybody knows the ''Pink Panther" theme -- jazzy, insouciant, irresistibly tuneful. But it's the lush, unabashedly romantic ''Moon River" that makes Henry Mancini the thinking woman's Barry White. (Just ask Carrie Bradshaw, who never loved Big more than when he used an old LP to sweep her off her feet on ''Sex and the City.") And yet Mancini was more than the sum of his tunes: With a rare combination of wit and heart, he used his scores to tell a movie's whole story. You don't need to watch ''Breakfast at Tiffany's" to see it: Just turn up ''Moon River," close your eyes, and smile as Holly Golightly comes to life. ''REMINGTON STEELE" NBC invented ''must-see" TV in the 1980s with ''The Cosby Show," ''Cheers," ''Miami Vice," ''Hill Street Blues," and ''St. Elsewhere." I also wouldn't miss ''Remington Steele." It had style (Henry Mancini music) and visual and verbal wit. It also introduced most of us to Pierce Brosnan, who assumed the title role after Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) decided people wouldn't go to a detective agency headed by a woman. It's all in the first episode, just out on DVD, along with the MTM cat, 1980s technology, and all kinds of other cute, if not quaint, details. JAMES BOND You'd think James Bond's archenemies would have figured out some things by now. Not to kick Bond out of a plane without a parachute if you aim to kill him, for one. Better a Walther PPK to the head. Squeeze trigger. Goodbye, Mr. Bond. But no. 007 lives. And lives again. Much as his foes keep underestimating him, so do Bond's critics. Ian Fleming is no John Le Carre, they say. The movies? Slick, maybe, but formulaic. Or worse: sexist, gadget-driven eye candy. Sean Connery? Studly. Timothy Dalton? George Lazenby? Come on. And yet . . . the novels are immensely readable. The movies? My wife loathes ''action movies," but she's seldom met a Bond flick she didn't like. At the box office, 007 is bulletproof. Plug in another leading man, dial up another archfiend: two hours of blissful escape. Even the Austin Powers parodies are superior, shagadelic fare. So keep underrating Bond. He prefers it that way. www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2005/08/21/what_else_is_underrated/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News
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Post by IcyCalm on Aug 25, 2005 23:20:21 GMT -5
Friends, I have been just over-the-moon about the Season 1 Remington DVD's. Whenever I need a pick-me-up I toss a disc into the player and settle down on the floor to soak in this magnificant eye candy.
Before they came out I admit I'd been frightened by an article somebody wrote about disappointing visual quality. May I say they beat the bloody hell out of the VHS tapes we all have, whether they came from Columbia or our own efforts at taping. I am seeing things on these DVD's that my tapes utterly failed to deliver. Such as the texture in the weave of his suits, the healthy sheen of his hair, a clear view of that necklace made from his grandmother's watch, and of course those adorable freckles in close-ups! Bravo, Fox!
I'm going crazy with the remote as well, freeze-framing, backing up, and slow-mo. Oh, what a treat - its Christmas whenever I jolly well want it to be!
Would anybody mind my pointing out some observations along the way, things that surprise me in viewing some episodes? Good.
ETCHED IN STEELE: when he wakes up on his livingroom floor, check out the strange necklace he's wearing. Delighted to see a man appreciate jewelry like PB does, who can wear it without being gaudy (unless he's being Johnny Todd, that is). In this episode, there is a major wardrobe malfunction: See the ripped shirt under his suit, as he puts his arm back to relax on the sofa in Scarlet Knight's publisher's office.
And to think Season 2 DVD's are in production as we speak!
IcyCalm (hardly at all these days)
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Post by Ace on Aug 26, 2005 16:51:01 GMT -5
Observations about watching Steele on DVD is why we're all in this topic. Blue eyes and freckles might actually top my RS on DVD pleasure list over finally having complete episodes. The visual quality of the DVDs is actually better than I hoped for such an older series -- especially one where there are sometimes 4 episodes compressed on just one side of a disc.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Aug 27, 2005 1:59:15 GMT -5
I'm enjoying the quality of the DVDs, too. I'm amazed at how much I can see. The factory-made tapes are no comparison. The DVDs have them beat by thousands of miles. Fortunately, on the DVDs, we can see that many people have other eye colors than that black-brown of the tapes. Imagine! I love his jewelry. I was just thinking the same when watching my episodes the other day -- a man who wears jewelry, and tastefully, too. I'm in love all over again. Where, oh where, are the real men in this world? Yeah, yeah, I know, married with children from his first wife's marriage, from his marriage to his first wife, and from his second marriage, living in Malibu. Life isn't fair. And he loves old movies, too!!
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Post by IcyCalm on Aug 27, 2005 9:51:52 GMT -5
It was rather "duh" of me to ask whether anybody minds my observations on the RS episodes. I guess I'm self-consious about becoming a "get a life" Trekkie about PB. The very reason why I joined this forum was to have an outlet with like-minded enthusiasts - my relatives where beginning to look at me with narrowed eyes...
So we've much to thank Ace for. You know, sometimes I read some of the other PB boards on the web and am struck with the lack of depth of comments. It may be due to extreme youth or limited English language skills, but most comments in other boards consist of one-sententance gushes of how hot Pierce is. He is so much more than that. Our board members know this and conduct intellligent and witty dialogues. Congratulations to us.
So go ahead, siblings and dear friends of mine, call me fanatic if you want to. There are so few people worthy of admiration, at least I've picked the apex of the pyramid to idolize. Speaking geometricaly, there can be only one to occupy that position, and it is deservedly Pierce.
OK. The special features of the Season 1 discs: I see there was a writer on staff of British descent, presumably to write lines for Pierce. Although they all say he and "Steffie" stuck relligiously to the script, I bet Pierce threw in his own ad-libs all over the place. After all, he did say on more than one occassion, he was "playing himself."
IcyCalm
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Post by sparklingblue on Aug 27, 2005 17:02:23 GMT -5
Where, oh where, are the real men in this world? Yeah, yeah, I know, married with children from his first wife's marriage, from his marriage to his first wife, and from his second marriage, living in Malibu. Life isn't fair. Amen to that. IcyCalm, I also often think that some lines or gestures *must* come from him because they are just so Pierce.
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Post by sparklingblue on Aug 27, 2005 17:41:39 GMT -5
from wunschliste.de: Kerstin (geb. 1971) schrieb am 24.08.2005: Nur mal zur Info an alle Remington Steele-Fans: Ab Februar 2006 wird es die Serie (oder zumindest erst mal die erste Staffel der Serie) auch in Deutschland als DVD zu kaufen geben- zumindest laut Auskunft der Produktionsfirma 20th Century Fox.This user says according to 20th Century Fox RS will be out on DVD in Germany by February 2006. If this turn out to be true, I'll be beside myself with joy and excitement! Edit: copy of this posted in "RS in Germany"
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Post by curious george on Aug 28, 2005 13:47:06 GMT -5
Does that mean you'll be twins?? cg
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Post by steeleinc on Aug 28, 2005 21:49:36 GMT -5
I am so disillusioned right now. I didn't start watching the new DVD set until last night and I started with "Thou Shalt Not Steele". It was wonderful.
Then when I watched "St. Belted" I kept thinking it sounded really flat, which was bizarre since I've always loved that episode. Well, it turns out the background music has been deleted, at least on the entire last act and the last part of Act 3. I tried both of my sets of DVDs and 2 different DVD players.
Then I got out the audio tape I'd made from the original NBC broadcast in 1982 and listened - and I was right. That wonderful background music has been totally deleted!!! I was expecting the stereo not to come on when RS turned it on, butI don't recall anyone mentioning the unforgivable deletion of an entire act of delightful, mood-setting background music!!
Now I'm afraid to watch the rest of the episodes!
I play piano and I love music. I always loved all the music on RS - it added *so much* by setting the scene for romance, comedy, intrigue, mystery, fear, sorrow. . . It was wonderful. And now that wonderful music has been assassinated. I actually feel like crying. (If I just had the right kind of mood music for inspiration, I'm sure I would.)
Had anyone else noticed this new insult to RS fans?
And who can I/we complain about this to?
Debra the Sorrowful
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Post by sparklingblue on Aug 29, 2005 10:26:13 GMT -5
Does that mean you'll be twins?? cg I suppose I'll have to be if I don't manage to be overjoyed and excited at the same time.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Sept 2, 2005 23:53:31 GMT -5
I am so disillusioned right now. I didn't start watching the new DVD set until last night and I started with "Thou Shalt Not Steele". It was wonderful. Then when I watched "St. Belted" I kept thinking it sounded really flat, which was bizarre since I've always loved that episode. Well, it turns out the background music has been deleted, at least on the entire last act and the last part of Act 3. I tried both of my sets of DVDs and 2 different DVD players. Then I got out the audio tape I'd made from the original NBC broadcast in 1982 and listened - and I was right. That wonderful background music has been totally deleted!!! I was expecting the stereo not to come on when RS turned it on, butI don't recall anyone mentioning the unforgivable deletion of an entire act of delightful, mood-setting background music!! ...... now that wonderful music has been assassinated. I actually feel like crying. (If I just had the right kind of mood music for inspiration, I'm sure I would.) And who can I/we complain about this to? IcyCalm, Some have mentioned the lack of music in the Steele Belted episode. The only other epsiode that has a tune missing is Hearts of Steele when Laura enters her office drunk and singing "Satisfaction". Sadly on the DVD, we get no Satisfaction. The theory is the song cost too much in royalties for them to shell out for the DVDs. We're hoping they give us Tony Bennet's songs from the original run of Steele Trying. They tell me they used different songs in the PAX version . I don't have tapes from the original NBC run to verify this but we did see a clip of it on the web and sure enough, there was a different song than PAX had. There is a post somewhere a few pages back (not many) with an address to write to complain. I'm so sorry you feel like crying.
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Post by IcyCalm on Sept 3, 2005 9:23:52 GMT -5
Myrtle, your latest post should have been addressed to Steeleinc "Debra the Sorrowful", rather than to me, IcyCalm. Although the "feel like crying" part does apply to me (but not about Remington Steele).
Steeleinc is really affected by this omission of music on the DVD! Must be a purist. I find it mildly annoying, and didn't know the DVD makers could or would do such a thing. Now I know WHY they would. As Pierce once explained about the Bond movies, it's commerce.
I am, however, disappointed about their cutting out "Satisfaction." It is one of so few artifacts in the series that correctly places Steele and Holt in their own culture. My VCR tapes were so bad, I missed the Beatles poster on the dorm wall in "Steele Crazy After All These Years", so I cheered when I saw it on DVD. I maintain that Laura would sing something by the Rolling Stones rather than something her mother would sing from post-WWII (or even before).
Myrtle, I'm so glad Katrina didn't get you. Thanks for your birdseye view of the things you're experiencing, the real story as it were. The rest of us are just incredulous.
IcyCalm
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Post by Yuliya on Sept 21, 2005 15:22:07 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Sept 21, 2005 15:28:10 GMT -5
After the excuses they didn't have a good photo for the first cover -- it's a composite cover anyway and they look like they pruned some of SZ's bigger hair as well! I do wish they'd found a photo of Pierce with more of a Steele smirk -- even the eyebrow isn't as arched as it could be. The red tint is strange -- makes it look like he's wearing a dark red tuxedo. If they keep doing different colors I wonder what the next two will be -- hopefully not green or yellow. probably not since they'd look terrible with the Silver lettering. I'd rather they stuck with shades of blue though. Thankfully they've lost the "Before he was Bond" line and interesting that they didn't include Doris Roberts but then I didn't think they should on the cover.
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Post by Yuliya on Sept 21, 2005 15:31:45 GMT -5
I don't mind the red tint on the tuxedo, except it makes it look blood-stained, but I never liked that shade of red for a background - it was used on a few posters. What happened to SZ's face - was it airbrushed? Overall, I don;t think I like the cover, though of course it won't stop me from buying the DVD. I can only see the edge when it's on the shelf anyway.
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Post by Ace on Sept 21, 2005 15:44:47 GMT -5
SZ's in glamour shot mode, and several of the photos from that time of her have that too smooth airbrushed look. Usually it was accompanied by way too much hair but they toned the hair down for the cover. I don't think the tux looks blood stained but rather too close to a red velvet smoking jacket of the kind worn by European gigolos. If the cover came in a brown paper bag I'd buy it but I do prefer the shades of blue they used for the first season release (mnaybe they felt they used up the shades on the 1/2 season copies) Oh and my Steele DVD cover faces front out with other DVD spines behind it. It's sooo pretty, too pretty to turn sideways. Ace
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