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To: BillyG who wrote (27789)	1/8/1998 3:48:00 PM
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Warner Home Video to Release Multiple Academy Award Winner ''My Fair Lady'' on DVD LAS VEGAS--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1998--Warner Home Video (WHV) has announced that it has acquired the DVD rights to the Academy Award-winning motion picture ''My Fair Lady'' and will release it in that format sometime in the first half of the year. Warner Bros. produced and distributed the movie version of Lerner and Lowe's legendary Broadway musical in 1964. It won rave reviews from critics, went on to become Warner's highest-grossing movie to date and captured 12 Academy Award nominations and eight Oscar wins, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Rex Harrison starred as Professor Henry Higgins and Audrey Hepburn as his star pupil, Eliza Doolittle. George Cukor directed. The announcement was made in Las Vegas Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show by Warren Lieberfarb, WHV president, who noted that the acquisition brings to 11 the number of Best Picture Oscar films Warner is releasing in DVD. Warner's film library currently contains a total of 30 titles that won the top Academy Award. The version being released on DVD is the brilliant full-scale restoration done by Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz for the special 30th-anniversary edition of the motion picture, released by CBS Video in 1994. CBS financed and owned the rights to the Broadway musical (in order to produce the stage-soundtrack album) and granted Warner Bros. the motion-picture rights for seven years. Those rights reverted to CBS in 1971. ''They don't make movies like this anymore,'' said noted critic Roger Ebert. '' 'My Fair Lady' is one of the most joyous musicals ever written, a pleasure to behold, and the restoration shows the movie as it was meant to be seen, in wide screen and stereo sound.'' Experts Harris and Katz are well known for their restoration work, most notably ''Lawrence of Arabia,'' ''Spartacus'' and, currently, ''Rear Window.'' The ''My Fair Lady'' restoration was done frame by frame, using computerized digital reconstruction, which allowed for the full picture (the entire 2.21:1 Super Panavision 70 aspect ratio) to be captured without distortion. The new master also features Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. Other Best Picture Oscar films already being distributed by Warner Home Video on DVD are ''Chariots of Fire,'' ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' ''Unforgiven,'' ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' ''Amadeus,'' ''Midnight Cowboy'' (MGM), ''Rain Man'' (MGM), ''Rocky'' (MGM), ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' (HBO) and ''Tom Jones'' (HBO).