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When MGM/UA senior vice president and general manager George Feltenstein decided last year that he wanted to reissue old "Looney Tunes" cartoons in a deluxe laserdisc collection, his colleagues laughed. "No one thought there was any value to them," he says. The company laughed all the way to the bank, however, when sales for the $100 five-disc set went through the roof: "When we put out the first set, I would have been happy if we sold 3,000," he notes. "We sold 14,000."And that's not all, folks.

Star Trek: The Original Series

 VIDEO CLIPSProduced for Home Viewing Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle NicholsColor. 1966. Where No Man Has Gone Before, The Corbomite Maneuver, Mudd's Women, The Naked Time, Charlie X, The Enemy Within, The Man Trap, What Are Little Girls Made Of?, Dagger of the Mind, Miri. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly; dir. various. 50 min. ea. Beta, VHS. $14.95 ea. Paramount.

Peter Lorre

 The pudgy moon-faced man cowers before the crowd, his eyes darting back and forth.

Patrick Macnee

A CLASS ACTBy TOM SOTER

From the Editor 21: Local Laws

LOCAL LAWS GONE LOCOfrom HABITAT, JULY/AUGUST 2010 Tom Soter

From the Editor 19: Corruption

  Tom Soter, in his office BY ANY OTHER NAMEfrom HABITAT May 2010Our connection was bad, but I could make out the words “corruption” and “dishonest” and “board” from the voice at the other end of the line.

Paying for Performance

 SHOULD CO-OP BOARD MEMBERS BE PAID?

From the Editor 18: Tenure

GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY Tom Soter, in his office. from HABITAT April 2010It all started with a handshake.

From the Editor 17: Cons

SNAKE OIL SALESMANfrom HABITAT, March 2010             Mr. Haney lives on. Not the actual Mr. Haney – actor Pat Butram, who played the unusual salesman on TV’s Green Acres from 1965-71, died some years ago – but a close facsimile.