'Tear down this wall' — The Goths are at the gates of Hollywood and they are circling the wagons within...

The long–talked–about pipe–dream of shortening or eliminating the window of time between when a movie appears in theaters and when it's shown on TV and the DVD becomes available is no longer wishful thinking on the part of those of us who wonder why we have to wait for someone else to decide when we're ready.

Tomorrow Steven Soderbergh's new film, "Bubble," opens at Mark Cuban's Landmark Theatres chain as well as on his HDNet high–definition TV network.

Four days later, on Tuesday, January 31, the DVD will be be released.

Hollywood doesn't like this one bit nor do theater owners.

Wrote Joshua Chaffin in the January 20 Financial Times, "'Bubble' was not greeted warmly by the studios when it was announced last year. Cinema owners, concerned about dwindling ticket sales, reacted with particular hostility."

Sharon Waxman reported on the new wave about to crash down in her article in Sunday's New York Times.

I pre–ordered the DVD from Amazon just now, so I'm doing my part — just like Reagan told Gorbachev, "tear down this wall."