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Donald Douglas, a film editor known for Murder, She Wrote, George Washington and The Eddie Capra Mysteries, has died. His family announced that Douglas died October 3 at Grace Pointe in Greeley, Co, after a brief illness. He was 87.

The two-time Emmy nominee was born in 1932 in Kendall, Fl. At seventeen, Douglas enlisted in the Air Force and served for four years as a radar operator during the Korean War. While training for his Air Force service in California, Douglas met and married his first wife Kaye, with whom he would have four children.

After his time in the Air Force, Douglas returned to Southern California, where he caught the attention of Hanna Barbera boss Bill Hanna and dipped his feet into film editing. Douglas launched his decades-long film editing career at Hanna Barbera and went on to work multiple shows including The Yogi Bear Show, The Jetsons, The Flintstones and Jonny Quest.

Donald Douglas, an Emmy-nominated film editor who worked on Hanna-Barbera cartoons and the Angela Lansbury crime series Murder, She Wrote, died Oct. 3 after a brief illness in Greeley, Colorado, his family announced. He was 87.

After a stint working in the tool-and-die industry, Douglas accepted an offer from William Hanna in the early 1960s to join Hanna-Barbera Productions, and he went on to edit episodes of The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Jonny Quest and cartoons featuring Yogi Bear, Peter Potamus, Magilla Gorilla, Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant.

Douglas received his first Emmy nom in 1984 for his work on the miniseries George Washington, starring Barry ...

Donald Douglas, an Emmy-nominated film editor who worked on Hanna-Barbera cartoons and the Angela Lansbury crime series Murder, She Wrote, died Oct. 3 after a brief illness in Greeley, Colorado, his family announced. He was 87.

After a stint working in the tool-and-die industry, Douglas accepted an offer from William Hanna in the early 1960s to join Hanna-Barbera Productions, and he went on to edit episodes of The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Jonny Quest and cartoons featuring Yogi Bear, Peter Potamus, Magilla Gorilla, Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant.

Douglas received his first Emmy nom in 1984 for his work on the miniseries George Washington, starring Barry ...

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“A Creepy Exploitation Double-bill”

By Raymond Benson

Here we go again! Another entry in the “Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture” series, this time it’s Volume 5. Presented by Kino Lorber in association with Something Weird Video, we have for your viewing pleasure the double-bill of Tomorrow’s Children, released in 1934 and directed by Crane Wilbur, who went on to do an impressive amount of writing and directing for (mostly) B-movies, and Child Bride, released in 1938 and directed by the notorious Harry J. Revier, a practitioner in cinema sensationalism dating back to the silent era. Note: Some online sources such as Wikipedia incorrectly state that the running time of Tomorrow’s Children is 70 minutes (here it’s 56 minutes and there doesn’t seem to be anything missing), and that Child Bride was released in 1943.

First up—Tomorrow’s Children, the...

Author Helen Fielding, who wrote the books that the hit movies Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason were based on, confirmed that she is writing a third Bridget Jones book. There are also plans for a movie sequel in the works.

Helen Fielding read three pages of her in-progress novel at a London event a few days ago, and revealed she will be working on the forthcoming movie as well. The plot will center on the title character going through a mid-30s baby crisis. Here's what the author had to say.

"I will be working on both the book and the film, but I don't know if they are the same thing yet. It's not been decided."

Ren&#233e Zellweger played Bridget Jones in both Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The actress revealed last year she would do another sequel if another book was written.

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