{"id":913,"date":"2009-06-23T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T05:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buzzsandbox.movieunlimited.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2014-03-19T09:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T13:31:51","slug":"send-letters-to-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Send Letters To Paramount For &#8220;American Hot Wax&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vito from Voorhees, New Jersey writes:<\/p>\n<p>Music rights hold up a lot of movies from being released on video, including one of my all-time favorites &#8220;American Hot Wax&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the story of Alan Freed, the &#8217;50s DJ widely credited for coining the term &#8220;Rock and Roll&#8221;.\u00a0 Tim\u00a0McIntire plays Freed along with early roles for Fran Drescher, Laraine Newman (in a role based on Carole King), and a young Jay Leno!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s filled with great oldies from the era and features Rock and Roll greats Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry appearing as themselves.\u00a0 The only time the movie was ever available on video was a short stint at the beginning of VHS through the Time\/Life Video Club.\u00a0 It rarely plays on cable, and I would want a factory copy anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows the movie or is interested in the story of the roots of Rock and Roll and wants to see this great film on DVD NOW is urged to email Paramount at <a href=\"mailto:phe_customerservice@paramount.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">phe_customerservice@paramount.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vito from Voorhees, New Jersey writes: Music rights hold up a lot of movies from being released on video, including one of my all-time favorites &#8220;American Hot Wax&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the story of Alan Freed, the &#8217;50s DJ widely credited for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1461],"coauthors":[1710],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-articles","tag-1970s-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>American Hot Wax 1978: The Story Of Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed,<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"American Hot Wax: A 1979 movie about Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed has never been available on DVD. 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