Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!

Would make me soooooooo happy.

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I've loved the movie forever, but I just got done reading the book and loved it even more than the movie. Plus, Patty Duke is sensational. Whats holding this back from DVD release?

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I hope they don't release it until all the surviving cast members agree to do a commentary track. Come on, Patty, you know you want this story told!

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There's just so many DVDs you can release at a time. Fox claims that there is no specific reason they haven't released it yet, "Just haven't gotten to it." Every list of "We're waiting!" titles seems to include it.

I think now that the demand has become obvious, Fox would be smart to take it's time and do it right! Don't just do a cheesy single DVD transfer, trick it out, two discs, widescreen technicolor! Commentary from any survivors, commentary from pill poppers who can scream out "Seconals were never that dark red!" I would love some commentary from some anonymous bitchy old queens who can tell tales from the set, the premiere, ANYTHING!

I'd love to have a track where said BOQ just draws the parallels to real life: "This REALLY happened to Ethel Merman! Judy Garland flushed her wig down the toilet at the Stork Club!"

"She took the blue pills" That part is my favourite in the trailer. "She took the red pills." Ha!

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"I went to a special screening that AMC held at the Chelsea Cinemas in 2000. It was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke and Lee Grant attended and held a Q & A with the audience and shared stories on the making of the film."

Damn, I hate you!
Why Whoopie? Was James Lipton not available?

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Forget everyone else - that movie belongs to Patty Duke:) [Im kidding, though I am totally obsessed with NEEEEELY O'HAAARA!]

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Sharon Tate is astonishingly gorgeous. That movie preserves her at her best for everyone to see and enjoy forever.

Dammit Fox, do it right.

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I have a ton of photos from the film and of all three women. I have to dig it up though. I'm also a huge Sharon Tate fan and have written numerous times to the parole boards in California to keep her killers behind bars whenever one of those animals are up for parole.

Updated On: 7/8/05 at 04:36 PM

There are two cuts of Judy Garland recordings of I'll Plant My Own Tree.....They have never been released!

There really is no reason to withhold it. I'm a proud owner of THE BAD SEED DVD with Charles Busch and Patti McCormick herself speaking about both the movie and broadway run of that play. It's a gem, and Busch, predictably on the case, is both reverential and gossipy.

So if we have a delicious BAD SEED, it's time for a vocally annotated VALLEY with that other child star Patty telling us about her immersion into the nightmarish world of Neely O'Hara.

Dark confession: when I saw this movie on the big screen, in high school, I took every minute of it seriously. No one laughed, certainly not me. (Barbara Parkins on the beach, the waves lapping at her false eyelashes -- I'm sure I wept.) Which, no doubt, is why I love it so dearly today. I still love my video.

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Valley of the Dolls is finally coming out as a Region 1 DVD on June 13th (along with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls). No details on extras yet, but Ted Casablanca interviews Barbara Parkins in today’s Awful Truth column (www.eonline.com), and she’s apparently involved with the special editon (no word on Patty Duke).
Valley of the Dolls at TLA Video