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If you're like me, then you have no shortage of classic films to catch up on, and if you're like me, you can't exactly fork the dough over for every special edition issued for said films (and if you're like me, then you abuse parallel sentence structure like nobody's business). Thankfully, Turner Classic Movies and Warner Bros. have teamed up to offer a good fifteen discs with four movies on each of them for about twenty to twenty-five bucks apiece.

Casablanca, Gigi, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Philadelphia Story, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Searchers, Singin' in the Rain, The Wild Bunch, The Dirty Dozen, The Maltese Falcon and much more -- not too shabby, huh? And here I used to think that Warner Home Video was handiest for Stallone-themed packs (because some of us haven't seen Over the Top, okay?).

Between this and their recent initiative to provide custom-burned copies of archival titles, Warners seems to be doing the most of any studio to preserve their library and make it widely available. For about $20, you could get a movie that few people have, or four movies that you ought to own anyway -- or you could just get several copies of Demolition Man. Priorities, people.

Just in case audiences are too weighed down by her turn in the uber drama My Sister's Keeper, Abigail Breslin, the wonder of Little Miss Sunshine, is adding three more films to her roster.

Variety reports that the young actress has signed on for a role in Gore Verbinski's Rango, plus voice gigs in The Wild Bunch and possibly Zombieland. You might remember that Rango involves Johnny Depp playing a household pet who sets out to discover his true self. There's no word on who Breslin would play, but since she's starring opposite the pirate dynamo, I imagine that it would be either a fellow pet itching for an adventure, or a young girl who doesn't want her pet to run off on a mission of self discovery.

But beyond that, there's the voice role of the lead in The Wild Bunch, which isn't a gun-toting remake, but rather an animated film about some common wildflowers and plants that are attacked by pesky, genetically modified cornstalks. And finally, Breslin is in negotiations to join the horror comedy Zombieland. If she signs on the dotted line, she'll play one of the con-artist sisters (along with Emma Stone) who comes across two men itching to fight the zombies -- Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg.

With this mix, Breslin should continue a pretty stellar career for a young thing -- one that mixes lucrative mainstream work with some rather charming alternative fare. It's not so easy to transcend the world of Olive, but Abigail is doing a heck of a job!

Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine turned 90 today. Yes, he's still alive, and he's still working. But he would like to be working more. He told the Associated Press this week that few people are interested in hiring him, mostly because they don't know he's still around. If you look at his listing on the IMDb, though, you'll see that the actor is far from unemployed. Sure, he hasn't done anything high profile in decades, but when prompted for his opinion of the movies of today, he acted as though nothing is currently worth his talent.

His attitude seems ballsy even for a player of tough guy roles in The Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch and From Here to Eternity. But maybe because I grew up associating Borgnine first with Super Fuzz and then with The Poseidon Adventure, I can't entirely believe that he's spent the past thirty years looking for substantial parts. There had to be an opportunity for a comeback in there somewhere. But if there hasn't been, there is still time for one great swansong. For 90, he seems healthy enough. Considering two of the four movies he liked in 2006 were directed by Clint Eastwood, I would just like to put it out there that Borgnine needs a significant role in Clint's next picture.