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"600px" : "100%" ); } /* */ Friday, March 31, 2006 Vintage titles still hard to find on DVD By Chris HicksDeseret Morning News After more years in this chair than I want to admit, I'm still asked from time to time about the same old movie titles that have never been released on home video and which never seem to show up on TV.

Two of the most sought-after for many years were John Wayne's "The High and the Mighty," which finally landed on DVD just last year, and "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Betty Hutton, which was released on DVD in 2000.

That's great, of course.

But if we only get one of these rabidly desired titles every five years, the audience that would most appreciate them will die out all too soon.

Meanwhile, there are loads of less-rare titles that have been on VHS for years but which may not get to DVD until it's replaced by yet another format!

And then the studios will start all over again, reissuing recent titles first.

It's a film buff's nightmare.

Still, a few studios are stepping up the pace for vintage titles.

• Warner Home Video, which has rights to old Warner, MGM and RKO films, is the current leader and often includes great bonus features.

The recent "Busby Berkeley Collection" is a fine example, and upcoming are a second Bette Davis collection ("Jezeb...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b caused by a Supreme Court's directive to demolish shops in residential areas.

If implemented in earnest, this would have disrupted economic life in the city and even thrown thousands of people out of job.

MoS, Urban Development, Ajay Maken says, "There are 1.5 crore people in Delhi.

The municipal authority has created just 20% of the required shops.

This mixed land use notification is meant to address the 80% shortage." The propriety of Ajay Maken notification is in doubt.

It is an attempt to make the Supreme Court order infructuous.

Maken also wants to build goodwill for himself because he has political ambitions in the city and has fallen out with Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit.

His action has angered middle class neighbourhood associations who regard the hustle and bustle of commerce as an intrusion on privacy.

Sanjay Kaul of 'People's Action' says, "It is an oxymoron that Delhi wants to be a world class city but wants to live an organic Indian life.

You might choose that but you cannot show me Daulatabad and want to live like Daulatabad." The motivation behind the notification may be suspect, its principles are not.

Segegated living of the kind practised in Delhi and Chandigarh is a western, colonial import, whose high practitioner is the United States.

It is an idea that has descended from cantonment towns and civil lines.

It results in urban sprawl and high energy use.

Mixed use, where shops and homes co-exist, but with separate entry and exit points, is mo...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b that grooves in 5/4, then walks the jazz walk, and eventually returns to its original feisty mood.

Similarly, Ghose takes the quartet on an adventure with “Talkin’ Trash,” which features a lovely piano outing filled with hip attitude.

The piece turns contemporary in its transition, while the quartet’s texture remains conventional.

They’ve realized the best of both worlds.

Guitarist Mark Jodice lends considerable fire to the quartet’s adventure, and both bass and drums contribute stellar support.

They both solo, too, giving the program plenty of creative variety.

Ghose’s “The Strut” ambles gracefully with a comfortable blues outlook, while Jodice’s “Zeal” rips uptempo in an ambitious attack that pushes hard but comes from traditional, straightahead ancestry.

They close with “Signature,” which Ghose wrote with swing and comfortable ease on his mind.

The piece’s lovely bossa mood allows the quartet to exit confidently with a firm, forward-looking view of where jazz should be heading.

Visit Sai Ghose on the web.

print email permission license Jim Santella has been contributing CD reviews, concert reviews and DVD reviews to AAJ since 1997.

His work has also appeared in Southland Blues, The L.A.

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