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		<title>BILLY AND HIS PAL (1911)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than twenty-five years ago when I began serious research for my book &#8220;Alamo Movies&#8221; I learned about the Star Film Ranch, where the first Alamo film, &#8220;The Immortal Alamo&#8221; (1911) was produced. As I began to look closer into the subject I became more and more interested in this early movie company quite apart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Greetings, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, we have received many cablegrams and facsimile messages asking why we didn’t produce a Holiday Letter for 2010. 
The reasons are many – doldrums and malaise being at the top of the list. 
Also, our six kids have been consistently under the weather, each of them having suffered from Acne, Actinic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Commentary Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of preparation, interviews, frustration and more interviews, I&#8217;m nearly ready to launch my new podcast &#8220;The Commentary Track.&#8221;
&#8220;The Commentary Track&#8221; will be a weekly podcast devoted to conversations about film history, classic movies, great directors and all kinds of related subjects. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m overstating the case when I say that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Remake of &#8216;Beau Geste&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just launched a campaign on the fund-raising site Kickstarter.com to get the money needed to complete my documentary The Lost Remake of Beau Geste. I&#8217;ve been working on this film for more than two years and hope to have it finished by mid-summer. I hope you&#8217;ll visit the site, watch the trailer (beautifully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Greetings 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, we must apologize for sending out our Holiday Greetings so late in the season. We know that many of our friends like a little lead time so they can have completely purged it from their memories by the time Christmas Day arrives. But as you may recall, our St. Swithun’s Day newsletter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend of the Foreign Legion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone who knows me knows of my inexplicable fascination with the French Foreign Legion. It all goes back to that fateful Sunday afternoon when I was about twelve years old and I happened to catch BEAU GESTE on television. From then on I was hooked. 
For years I intended to write a book on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Bill Wellman and Forbidden Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while a major studio releases something intended specifically for me. Other people might enjoy it, but make no mistake &#8212; it&#8217;s mine, all mine. 
This week, Warner Home Video is doing such a thing, releasing a box set of six pre-Code films directed by William A. Wellman &#8212; &#8220;Forbidden Hollywood Volume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Greetings 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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No doubt most of you, upon receiving this message, will consider it a classic “good news/bad news” situation. The good news is that Frank can type again, his hands almost completely healed after the unfortunate lutefisk incident. The bad news is that your spam filter is clearly on the fritz. 

Be that as it may, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well over a year ago, my good friend James M. Welsh, a great author, a fine professor and an all-&#8217;round good fella, asked me to contribute an essay to his upcoming anthology. He wanted me to write about how the  Alamo has been depicted in film. Well, that&#8217;s something I know a thing or two about so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Alamo wins award!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am tickled for my friends Kathy and Rusty Kern and proud to be associated with this DVD. If you&#8217;re interested in the Alamo or Marx playsets or both, you really need to order it. But let Kathy and Rusty put everything in their own words:
Atomic Home Video joins Warner Brothers and Discovery Channel as winners of [...]]]></description>
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