Steele Here (in English)

08-26-2006

Region 2 DVDs

Good news: After Sweden, France will be the second EU country to release Remington Steele's region 2 DVDs. It's about time!

Source : DVD séries

Thanks Laura!

08-12-2006

Book Progress and Radio Show

As I mentioned it in a previous update, Judith Moose is writing a guide on Remington Steele entitled "Steele Loved After All These Years". She's doing a wonderful job and always keep us informed of her progress on the SteeleWatchers group.

She met Michael Gleason and Doris Roberts this week, and she'll meet Stephanie Zimbalist on Sunday to discuss the book.

Here is a small summary Judith posted on SteeleWatchers about her lunch with Doris and Michael:

"Debbi and I have just gotten back from the most fabulous afternoon we could have dreamed of having. We had lunch with Michael Gleason and Doris Roberts in Beverly Hills and I can tell you without any hesitation at all that Doris is one of the most charming people you would ever want to meet in your life.  She shared incredible stories that will be included in the book and before the end of lunch (another two-and-a-half hours) she shocked the heck out of me.  Actually she did that several times but who's counting.  One of the stories was so hysterical that we all laughed so hard we were crying!"

You can pre-order "Steele Loved After All These Years" by clicking on the following link: http://www.signingstars.net/steele.htm

The book will also be available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and various other bookstores, so keep your eyes wide open for the release of the book on October 8th.

Do you wanna hear another good news? Judith Moose, Michael Gleason and Doris Roberts will be the guests of the online radio show "Talking Television With Dave White" on August 15th (the day when RS season 4 & 5 boxset will be released). Tune in from 8:00 to 9:00 pm Pacific Time to the following adress: http://ksav.org/ and click on "listen live". For those who will miss the show, it will be archived here: http://ksav.org/talking_television_audio_archive.htm

Judith, thank you so much for sharing your work with us. You surely have spent exciting and unforgettable moments with Michael, Doris and Stephanie. Lucky you!

08-06-2006

Actors Studio - Pierce talks about Remington Steele

You can download the whole part when Pierce talks about Remington Steele in "Inside the Actors Studio". The show was aired on November 17th, 2002. The video is in English with French subtitles. Right click and "save as":

Inside the Actors Studio

Thanks Maki!

07-16-2006

Some videos

Here's a list of videos from Youtube :

- Season 1 intro : click here
- Clip from Vintage Steele : click here
- Clip from Hounded Steele : click here
- Clip from Steele Crazy After All These Years (Sharon Stone's scene) in Spanish : click here

06-13-2006

Episode Guide to be released!

What a wonderful news: a Remington Steele guide will be released by the end of the year. Here is an article posted by Judith Moose, the author, on the Steele Watchers' mailing-list:

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ENTERTAINMENT AUTHOR JUDITH MOOSE TO PEN BOOKS ON EIGHTIES HIT TELEVISION SERIES' REMINGTON STEELE AND HART TO HART

For_Immediate_Release:

LOS ANGELES, CA – June 07, 2006 – Entertainment Industry author, publisher and publicist Judith Moose has announced plans to release her fourth and fifth television series guide books. The fourth is titled Steele Loved After All These Years is a retrospective look at Remington Steele and the fifth, Their Hobby Was Murder – A Look Back At Hart To Hart. Both books are slated for publication by the end of 2006.

Fans of both shows will be treated to walks down memory lane as they lip through the pages of the two books. Each will be filled with background information, behind-the-scenes tidbits, episode guides, trivia and assorted fun facts, a complete reference center, interviews with the cast, crew and creators and as with her others, a large selection of photos.

Judith A. Moose holds degrees in Broadcast Communications, Advertising and Marketing as well as a broadcasting license from the Federal Communications Commission. In 1995, she founded an Entertainment Research and Archive firm that she called Stars In My Eyes. The firm quickly grew and added publicity services for various entertainers, authors, musicians and feature films. In 2003, Stars In My Eyes had substantially grown and the company name was changed to JM Media Group. As well as handling the PR for several celebrities, Judith has assisted in the production of the A&E Network's Biography episode on Joan Collins, the NBC 75th Anniversary Special and seven VH1 Specials. Judith is currently serving as the Director of Media Relations for the feature films Woman's Story, The Hootch and Dark Butterfly. In December 2003, she published her first book, Together: A Sitcom Lover's Guide To Silver Spoons and her second, Another Time, Another Place: Quantum Leap in November 2004 with co-author Richie F. Levine. Her latest book,  Glamour, Greed & Glory: Dynasty, was released on August 11, 2005 with co-author Paul Keylock (personal assistant to actress Joan Collins).

Steele Loved After All These Years and Their Hobby Was Murder will be released by Signing Stars Publishing.

Contact: Catherine Ingham, Signing Stars Publishing, signingstars@earthlink.net

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With such a succesful carrier, the book will certainly be a great achievment!

05-07-2006

Steele Trying

Here is a new music video from Steele Trying. The original episode, that takes place in San Francisco, contains various scenes with Tony Bennett's songs but unfortunately the DVD version does not include all of them. This clip has been made with the song "Isn't it Romantic". Right click and "save as":

High Resolution (19,2 Mo)

Low Resolution (8,6 Mo)

05-06-2006

Old Article From The Chicago Tribune

The article below comes from the Chicago Tribune. It was published in February 1986 when Remington Steele was in the middle of the fourth season. It's about couples in TV series.

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SEXUAL TENSION TEASES STARS AND VIEWERS

By Noel Holston, Orlando Sentinel

Sunday February 9, 1986

Private eye Laura Holt said it in the final scene of the first "Remington Steele" episode, and it can be taken as the unofficial motto of a new generation of series built on the premise of attractive opposites resisting the magnetic tug of romance.

When her secretary asked her how she felt about her mysterious and debonair new partner, Laura smiled suggestively and purred one word.

"Itchy." The itch is all over prime time now, rampant but seldom scratched.

In the beginning, there were Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) and Remington (Pierce Brosnan) on "Remington Steele" and Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and Sam Malone (Ted Danson), the barb-tossing barmaid and bartender of "Cheers." A season later, in 1983, along came "Scarecrow & Mrs. King," where in spy Lee Stetson (Bruce Boxleitner) and his homemaker helper, Amanda King (Kate Jackson), share cases and occasional longing looks but never a bed. That same season brought the premiere of "Hotel," where in the sexual tension between manager Peter McDermott (James Brolin) and his assistant, Christine Francis (Connie Sellecca), has been tightening ever since.

"Who's the Boss?", which throws together businesswoman Angela Bower (Judith Light) and housekeeper Tony Micelli (Tony Danza)), arrived in 1984. The spring of 1985 brought "Moonlighting," wherein supercool do-wop detective David Addison (Bruce Willis) lusts openly, if jokingly, after his icy boss, former model Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd). Maddie can't decide whether she'd like to jump in the sack with David or put one over his head.

Lovers who wonder are the hottest non-items in prime time. Even Mary Tyler Moore's recent return to sitcomedy on "Mary" came complete with a boss (played by James Farentino) to whom she's attracted against her better judgment.

The creators of these series don't profess to know what's behind the popularity of their noncommittal couples, but in a series of telephone interviews, they were willing to take a flyer.

"Maybe America's in the mood for romance," said "Cheers" co-creator Glen Charles. "There was an absence of it for quite a long time."

Michael Gleason, who created "Remington Steele" with Robert Butler and remains its executive producer, attributes the popularity of indecisive romantic couples to "the way movies have gone. They show everything. They tell everything. Nothing is left to the imagination. People say hello, and they're in the sack after five minutes."

"The audience subconsciously was looking for the cleverness that writers used in the '30s and '40s motion pictures, when the production code was in effect, when you had to find ways around the censor to show that people wanted to go to bed with each other," Gleason said.

Several of the producers acknowledged a debt to movie comedies such as "Woman of the Year" (1942) and "Adam's Rib" (1949), with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and "His Girl Friday" (1940), with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Charles said the "Cheers" creators looked for a Tracy- Hepburn chemistry when they cast their leads. Gleason and "Moonlighting's" executive producer, Glenn Caron, got themselves in the creative mood by screening "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), "Monkey Business" (1952) and other screwball classics by director Howard Hawks.

Caron, who wrote several early "Remington Steele" installments before moving on to develop "Moonlighting," suspects that the appeal of such series "has something to do with the love and affection being unrequited. Dramatically, this has always been a strong thing to play. There's a sense of destiny about the relationship, yet the destiny at the moment that we peek in on it is unfulfilled."

How to keep relationships interesting and honest is the trickiest element of producing a continuing series in which romantic tension is a critical element, the producers agreed.

In his Oscar-wining movie "Annie Hall," Woody Allen observed that a relationship is like a shark--it has to keep moving or it dies. The repetitious relationships in series such as "Moonlighting" and "Scarecrow & Mrs. King" run the risk of becoming contrived and coy. On the other hand, commitment would fundamentally alter the relationships, perhaps destroying what made them popular.

More than one producer brought up the case of the 1970s sitcom "Rhoda," whose blockbuster-level early ratings started slipping as soon as the title character (played by Valerie Harper) got married. A divorce put Rhoda on the rebound but not the show's Nielsen numbers.

In some viewers' eyes, "Cheers" lost its snappy first-season stride when Sam and Diane consummated their relationship in the second season.

"We've been very careful," said "Remington Steele's" Gleason. "There were certain people at the network (NBC) who wanted them (Laura and Remington) to go to bed the first year--for the November ratings sweeps. I said, 'Wait a minute. Once they're married, or once they've made love, what do you do with them?' "

"The last thing we want to do is trivialize the idea of sex," said "Hotel" producer Geoffrey Fischer.

Noting that "Remington Steele" is in its fourth season, Gleason indicated similar changes for that show: "There does come a point when you have to commit (yourself) one way or another. And without giving away any trade secrets, I think the end of this season will take us a long way to some sort of resolution."

Blake Hunter and Martin Cohan, the co-executive producers of "Who's the Boss?", would like to sustain the sexual tension in their second-year sitcom for at least another season.

"Moonlighting's" Caron is unworried about trying viewers' patience with David and Maddie's hot and cold-running hormones. The series has the luxury of being new, as Gleason pointed out, but Caron insisted that a teasing relationship is risky "only if you're calculating about it."

Although the relationship between Amanda and Lee has warmed this season on "Scarecrow & Mrs. King," the show's executive producer, George Geiger, is in no hurry to take it further.

 According to Geiger, there are no risks in altering the status of romantic characters.

"There are consequences," Geiger said. "Good and bad consequences."

[Source: David & Maddie]

05-03-2006

Seasons 4 & 5 DVD release

Good news: seasons 4 & 5 will be released on DVDs (region 1) on August 15!!! We don't have to wait for too long, finally... Here is the list of special features:

- Steele Fanatics (is it made with the interviews of fans recently shot in LA?)
- Steele Stars
- Steele on the Road
- Steele on the Air commentary by John Sakmar and Kerry Lenhart
- Beg, Borrow or Steele commentary by Michael Gleason, John Wirth, Brad Kern and Jeff Melvoin
- Bonds of Steele commentary by Michael Gleason, John Wirth, Brad Kern and Jeff Melvoin
- Steele Farewell

I wish there was an episode commentary by both Pierce and Stephanie...


[Source : TV Shows on DVD]

05-01-2006

Steele in Progress

Steele Here meets technolgy!

- On the right, you'll find a radio with a playlist of songs that are more or less related to the series. You just have to click on the player and a new window will open, then click on the song you want to listen. I hope you'll enjoy two songs by Tony Bennett that are played in the episode Steele Trying, or three themes from the series, or maybe songs from my music videos, or even other songs that make me think to the show (try "Still Here" by the Goo Goo Dolls, it will certainly be in a next clip!). Do not hesitate to send me titles you'd like to listen on the blog.

- On the left, a small window offers you some quotes from the show. Once again, feel free to send me an email with quotes you find funny or moving, and do not forget to give the episode titles. I'd be glad to add them here!

You can contact me by clicking on the link "contact the author".

04-30-2006

Woman of Steele

Here is a new music video from the episode Woman of Steele. Cassandra Harris was Anna Simpson, the dangerous manipulative woman from Remington's past. In my opinion, this episode is among the best! Rigth click and "save as":

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Low Resolution (4,7 Mo)