Powerful, prize-winning 1967 novel depicts the odyssey of Nat Turner, leader of first slave revolt in the US. Styron’s novel was profoundly controversial; some felt that’s a white author had no right to the subject matter. By the acclaimed author of SOP
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Customer Review: Superb. Left me breathless
I too, am going to have to say that many recent reviewers have said what I would say if I could express myself so eloquently. This is a powerful and beautifully written book. I had heard about it and was curious, but had no idea the impact it would have on me. As a white person I’ve often wondered why this degree of rage hasn’t been touched on before; I’ve always thought I would have been consumed with it had I been treated as the blacks have been. Styron’s novel will haunt you long after you finsh the book.
Customer Review: Excellent
With avid and unsettling detail, William Styron gives us a story that is a rich and heartbreaking look at American slavery. His Nat Turner gropes blindly for mercy and for God until finally he must try to break free from bonds that are utterly, inexcusably cruel.
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I loved the music on this cd. Thank you so much. My brother and I listen to it all the time.
Customer Review: Disney Always Rocks
Yeah looks like it’s a great get, if you haven’t already got every CD by disney. Didn’t know the song You’ll be In my Hear was a Tarzan track. Must be a spin off to You’ll be in My Heart. Its all good.
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While scoring high-profile credits as a screenwriter (including The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Raiders of the Lost Ark), Lawrence Kasdan made his directorial debut with this steamy, contemporary film noir in the tradition of Double Indemnity and other classics from the 1940s. In one of his most memorable roles, William Hurt plays a Florida lawyer unwittingly drawn into a web of deceit spun by Kathleen Turner (in her screen debut) as a married socialite who plots to kill off her husband with Hurt’s assistance. Kasdan’s dialogue is a hoot (sometimes it borders on satire), and the sultry atmosphere is a perfect complement to the perspiration-soaked chemistry between Hurt and Turner, whose love scenes caused quite a stir when the film was released in 1981. John Barry’s score sets the provocative mood, and both Ted Danson and Mickey Rourke are splendid in memorable supporting roles. –Jeff Shannon
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Customer Review: I loved it then and love it now - this movie is hottt!!
I saw Body Heat when it first came out and fell in love with Kathleen Turner. It’s a great flick, suspenseful, very sexy, great actors and great music for the setting. I still find the scene where William Hurt breaks through the glass door to be one of the most scintillating moments in romantic movie history (and something I’d love to do some time!). If you’ve never seen this movie, you’re missing something.
Customer Review: best since double indemnity
Best modern film noir. Only Double Indemnity is better. And “You’re not too bright…I like that in a man” is a classic film line. Flawless!
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Director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Contact) had a hit with this 1984 comedy that first teamed Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. Turner steals the show from the guys, however, playing a pushy romance novelist who gets stuck among some dangerous figures in Colombia and has only a rumpled guide (Michael Douglas) as an ally. The chemistry between the stars is infectious (the trio went on to make a sequel, Jewel of the Nile, and then an interesting, dark comedy directed by DeVito, The War of the Roses). Zemeckis–whose specialty at the time was creating set pieces of raucous action (as in his Back to the Future)–keeps things hopping with lots of kinetic material. –Tom Keogh
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Customer Review: Recipe for a classic
In my opinion, there are certain modern films I’d call “classic” Romancing the Stone is one of these. With lines that are still quotable, “My minumum price for taking a stranded woman to a telephone is $500″, heroines that are still as beautiful, (Joan Wilder) heroes that are still as hopelessly over-confident, (Jack T Colton) and bad guys that are still crazily mis-directed (Ira and Ralph) over 20 years hasn’t taken away the appeal of this great simple adventure film. Great setting, humor, action, vehicles and ending make this movie worth re-watching again and again. If you like searching for treasure, fighting the bad guys, saving the girl and sailing into the horizon on your dream boat than this ones for you. Not too violent, sexual or profane…but maybe just enough this movie also has balance that you dont often see in movies now that go either too sexual, too violent, or have so much swearing you dont even care what happens in the movie. Worth every penny.
Customer Review: One of the best movies
Remembering watching this movie growing-up in the 80’s, I decided it needed to be a part of the household collection. A classic not to be missed, one of me and my moms favorite movies, this movie appeals to men and women alike.
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Selected Poems of Thomas Gray, Charles Churchill and William Cowper (Penguin Classics)

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The Heritage of World Civilization, Volume I: To 1650 (5th Edition)
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Customer Review: An Excellent General Overview of Our World Heritage
This is an outstanding book that provides an interdependent perspective of the processes that have shaped our world with a comprehensive coverage of the four great valley civilizations of Africa and Asia plus the two early civilizations of America. Technological advances are considered from a comparative global perspective. It provides an exceptional treatment of the different civilizations that have existed in World History.
Customer Review: An Excellent General Overview of Our World Heritage
This is an outstanding book that provides an interdependent perspective of the processes that have shaped our world with a comprehensive coverage of the four great valley civilizations of Africa and Asia plus the two early civilizations of America. Technological advances are considered from a comparative global perspective. It provides an exceptional treatment of the different civilizations that have existed in World History.

Fine Art William Turner 310 Inkjet Paper, 44 x39 Roll
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100 Years of Olympic Glory
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Customer Review: Good Recapp of Olympic glories!
This was a good recapp of famous scenes from the Olympics. The video highlights how a lot of the Olympic traditions began and how the modern Olympics were restarted. It takes you through three hours of the greatest Olympic moments. I was a little dissappointed that we didn’t hear the orginal commentary from the games, along with Bud Greenspan. It also didn’t show enough of some of the more famous Olympians - there was not much on Greg Louganis or Jesse Owins, or Nadia Comaneci. Overall I liked this video but I was a little dissappointed.
Customer Review: Great Documentary
I originally saw this documentary on PBS and thought it was a great recap of the last 100 years of the Olympic Games. I am glad to see that it is now on video.

Carousel
Like its immediate predecessor, Oklahoma!, this 1956 screen musical boasted then state-of-the-art widescreen cinematography, stereophonic sound, a starring romantic duo with onscreen chemistry, and the Rodgers & Hammerstein imprimatur. Adding to its promise was a source (the venerable Ferenc Molnar play Liliom) that had already been filmed three times. Yet unlike the original Broadway production, and despite evident craft, Carousel proved a box-office disappointment. Why? Hindsight argues that ’50s moviegoers may have been unprepared for its tragic narrative, the sometimes unsympathetic protagonist, and a spiritual subtext addressing life after death.

Whatever the obstacle, Carousel may well be a revelation to first-time viewers. The score is among the composers’ most affecting, from the glorious instrumental “Carousel Waltz” to a succession of exquisite love songs (”If I Loved You”), a heart-rending secular hymn (”You’ll Never Walk Alone”), and the expectant father’s poignant reverie, “Soliloquy.” Top-lined stars Shirley Jones (as factory worker Julie Jordan) and Gordon MacRae (as Billy Bigelow, the carnival barker who woos and weds her) achieve greater dramatic urgency here than in the more successful Oklahoma!, with MacRae in particular attaining a personal best as the conflicted Billy, whose anxiety and wounded pride after losing his job are crucial to the plot. It’s Billy’s impatience to support his new family that drives him to an ill-fated decision that transforms the fable into a ghost story.

Adding to the luster are the coastal Maine locations where 20th Century Fox filmed principal photography. Newly remastered by THX, Carousel looks and sounds better than ever, but VHS tape buyers take heed: as a movie conceived for the then-new widescreen platform (it was the first to be shot in the studio’s second-generation CinemaScope 55 format), this is one film that doesn’t benefit from pan-and-scan editing, which lops off half the screen’s image, virtually eliminating the sweep and spectacle of big production numbers. The widescreen version is vastly superior. –Sam Sutherland
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Customer Review: Carousel is still a work of art today
I had seen this movie in the late 50’s in Philadelphia at an expensive theatre with the lady who later became my wife. It had some really great scenes in it. I recently viewed it again on this DVD with my new lady, a widow. She saw so many similarities showing herself as the young and innocent Julie and her experiences with her deceased husband who clearly resembled Billy in many ways. It was a cathartic experience for her to see this film. As for me, it was a reminder of what I was also seeking back then, someone to love too. It is amazing how artfully Rogers and Hammerstein created a real life metaphysical story from such simple and touching moments. The costumes, scenery and music and words are just beautiful. I recommend the video to everyone who appreciates real love in life.
Customer Review: Carousel a winning ride
After the film Oklahoma, Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRea team up again to give another solid performance in this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. MacRea, who works on the carousel, falls in love with a small town girl, Jones, and together they sing the many memorable songs in the film.

Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites
Remembered mainly for his devotion to Turner, and later the Pre-Raphaelites, a fear of pubic hair, the libel case brought by Whistler, and the late spiral into manic depression, Ruskin was art critic, cultural critic, artist, writer, patron and social politician–as irreverent as he was earnest.

“For myself, I am never satisfied that I have handled a subject properly till I have contradicted myself at least three times”.

The centenary of his death has seen the release of the second and final volume of Tim Hilton’s already classic biography John Ruskin Vol 2: The Later Years, and John Batchelor’s John Ruskin: No Wealth But Life. This publication coincides with the exhibition at Tate Britain.

In order to “re-spin” Ruskin as the first advocate of contemporary art, Hewison draws parallels between recent developments in new media for artists and the mid-19th century art world of technological change. However, Ruskin was without doubt also a man of his time in his ideas, both social and artistic.

What allowed Ruskin to champion both Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites was their challenge to the status quo and a shared quest for Truth; he found moral resolution in the aesthetic synthesis of natural fact and symbolic truth.

Ruskin’s drawings and watercolours–”I could have done something if I had not books to write”–catch the eye on the page. Lover of Venice and the Gothic, as well as animals and rock formation, his scrupulous draughtsmanship speaks as eloquently of his vision as his words. Inevitably, the 39 volumes of his written output may gather dust on library shelves, but Hewison’s catalogue is a judicious and recommended introduction to this protean, magnificently flawed man and the art which flowed from or with him. –David Vincent

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1941)
Classy MGM was not the studio most likely to make a horror movie in 1941, and in fact its production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ended up looking more like a glossy costume drama than a B-movie frightfest. The mood of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of a divided doctor is ably captured in Joseph Ruttenberg’s Oscar-nominated cinematography–more so, perhaps, than in Spencer Tracy’s lead performance. Tracy wasn’t especially happy about playing the role, although his transformations from good Dr. Jekyll to evil Dr. Hyde are convincing enough. One of the main reasons to see this version of the story is the young, impossibly beautiful Ingrid Bergman, then still a year shy of Casablanca. Bergman was cast in the good-girl part, but proved a shrewd judge of material, even this early in her Hollywood career; she finagled her way into playing the floozy instead, thus securing a more colorful acting platform than Lana Turner, who ended up in the more respectable role. Director Victor Fleming’s previous movie was a little number called Gone with the Wind, and the Big Picture approach to that project may have influenced his work here–this Dr. Jekyll is just a bit too stately, too polished to really engage. The picture is so dignified it never cuts loose with the kind of wild invention that marked the 1932 version of the story, which won Fredric March an Oscar. It’s the tale as imagined by Jekyll, rather than Hyde. –Robert Horton
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Customer Review: A Victorian Sight of Good and Evil Struggle.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a remarkable author from the Victorian Era. He has left us at least two masterpieces: “The Treasure Island” (1883) and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1886). Both of them have been used as original story to produce remarkable and not so remarkable filmic versions. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1941) is one of the best translations from Stevenson’s tale to screen. IMHO the changes made to the story for this version enhance the dramatic force of it. Dr. Jekyll suspect evil burdens every human soul, being an obstacle in its way to goodness. So he investigates and produces a drug that “liberates” the evil spirit and doing so he intend to be relived of it. He is in love with Beatrix Emery and wants to marry her. Unfortunately after expressing his ideas at a diner meeting, his father-in-law to be, decides take his daughter to France and let unfortunate Jekyll to abandon his “outrageous” ideas and focus on ordinary medical practice. After receiving this troublesome notice, Jekyll accidentally meets beautiful Ivy Peterson which disturbs his Victorian prudish notions. Griped by turmoil of emotions Jekyll decide to experiment his “liberating” potion on himself giving birth to Mr. Hyde, that instantly jumps into ruthless action. From this point on Evil starts to grow each time more powerful and Mr. Hyde end cornering Dr. Jekyll into impotence and fear. This cinematographic version emphasizes Freudian conceptualizations with some dreamlike scenes containing images full of erotic meaning. Spencer Tracy performance’s as Dr. J./ Mr. H. is really top-notch, centered more in psychological aspects than in physical changes. Mr. H. unbounded brutality emanates from his corporal demeanor and not from the make-up. Ingrid Bergman is… well she is a dream. She melds innocence with voluptuosity; seduction with na?vet?. Some scenes may be judged risqu? for those times nevertheless she plays them with honors. A very young Lana Turner fleshes Beatrix in an anodyne performance. Joseph Ruttenberg’s black & white pictures are almost expressionist recreating a fogyish London; he was deservedly nominated for an Oscar. He had already won one and will won more in the future. Director Victor Fleming is remembered for directing “Gone with the Wind” (1939), nevertheless even if he never repeated such allure he directed some excellent ones as this film, “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) and “Joan of Arc” (1948). A Classic movie you shouldn’t let passes by unheeded! Reviewed by Max Yofre.
Customer Review: Is Evil Necessary?
In the horror films of the 30s and 40s, a common thread was often the question of the limits of knowledge. Was there truly an area that man was supposed to not go? The novel DR. JEKYLL AND MR HYDE and the various filmed versions have each attempted to answer, however imperfectly, that question. The 1941 version with Spencer Tracy as Dr. Jekyll sidesteps this issue, instead focusing on the consequences of splitting a human into his good and evil selves. Director Victor Fleming sets up the eventual fall of Mr. Hyde by stages. He uses both the dreariness of fogged London streets and the considerable talents of Spencer Tracy to suggest a noble but flawed Henry Jekyll. The dark corners of the twisting avenues surrounding Jekyll’s house suggest a lurking evil. The smiling earnest face of Henry Jekyll suggests a similar unsettling moment as he contemplates that all men have within themselves a duality of morality that can be brought out by man’s technology and science. The two female leads, Lana Turner as Jekyll’s fiancee and Ingrid Bergman as Hyde’s forced paramour, are seen as reduced female images of Jekyll-Hyde. Turner is the pure Jekyll–loving, caring, endlessly forgiving. Bergman is the rougher, more edgy version of Turner. Various critics have been harsh in their condemnation of these two women, both in the characters portrayed and the acting involved. Yet, these actresses’ performances are exactly right. Turner’s innate goodness is associated with Jekyll; each supports the other even when family and circumstance dictate otherwise. Bergman’s acting role requires more subtlety. Her beauty allied with her working class image is what attracts Hyde in the first place, but she has to shed her edginess each time she and Hyde interact. The dramatic center of the movie is Jekyll, rather than Hyde. It is he who gives form and substance to a plot that allows him to branch off to become the monstrous Hyde. All of Hyde’s evil is more a reflection of what Jekyll could have done rather than what Hyde did. Spencer Tracy shows a Jekyll that needs his dormant Hyde to make life’s difficult decisions. Before his first transformation, Jekyll lived a life that was normal, yet bland. It was only after his exposing to himself of his Hyde personality, that his Jekyll side was able to become more confident. When Hyde is killed by bullets, of course Jekyll too dies, but the death of both is more than the closing of a police blotter of crimes now solved. Hyde’s death indicates that Jekyll’s goodness was incomplete without a recognition of the dark side that has existed deep within all humans since the apple eating incident of the Garden of Eden. DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE points out that undirected good needs directed evil to avoid plucking that apple from the tree in the first place.

Everything That Rises
A realistic portrayal of the struggles of today’s American farmer. Each family member must make their own sacrifices - as they are able. Inspiration for all Americans.
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Customer Review: Wonderful movie!!
This movie is sad, but very heart warming. The story is very dramatic. I think that this movie is a great family movie that makes everyone feel happy.
Customer Review: “Everything That Rises”
Great movie, breathtaking scenery, stunning performances (especially by Ryan Merriman). Just one flaw…could Turner possibly put it on DVD in a letterboxed format??? All that scenery, bigger than life performances…and that lousy full-screen format!!! Please put it on DVD and in a letterboxed format!!!!!

Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo
Regardless of what you might think of this controversial comedy starring former Saturday Night Live star Rob Schneider, the soundtrack features several tracks as classic as leisure suits and roller boogie. Which is to say the 1970s never die, they just get reupholstered from time to time. Once used as the signature track to Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo, Blondie’s “Call Me” is presented twice. Blondie’s original version is the one worth breaking out the dancing shoes for, whereas Emilia Mojello’s cover is stiff, constricted by a halting beat. Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” is a first-rate call to sexual arms. “Spill the Wine” by War with Eric Burdon (formerly of the Animals) is a classic period piece. 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” mixes AM-lite pop with progressive rock to dizzying effect. Hot Chocolate and KC and the Sunshine Band are typical additions to this shag-carpeted soundtrack. –Rob O’Connor
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Customer Review: Good, but…
It doesn’t have the song I was looking for. You know when he goes into the dance club and gets the overpriced martini and grape juice? There is a rap remix of Stayin’ Alive as he is walking in. That one is not on here.
Customer Review: i like this but it’s missing the same song as…
WHile this OST is decent, I will admit that Scary Movie AND Deuce Bigalow have this one song in them that plays in the MATRIX-spoof scene of BOTH movies. I can’t find out who did it or what the name of it is. if anyone knows…PLEASE tell me. this is driving me up the f(_)cking wall! it’s not listed on IMDB.com or any other internet related movie database. please please help me if you can. thanks!

Dame Eva Turner - The Collected Recordings
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Customer Review: Interesting representation of the singer
Eva Turner was condemned to be remembered as a one role singer; the role of Turrandot. Her artistry went far beyond that. She was a slow starter in many ways, and it took a considerable amount of time for major houses outside Italy to notice her. Yes, she was enjoyed and used in the Italian opera houses, but ignored in her own land. Eventually, she made her debut there and was a hit. Her voice is not to everyone’s liking, and some critics found her interpretations very “ordinary.” Some felt she couldn’t color her voice enough to render complete interpretations of the roles she sang. The real problem was her voice was not subtle at all. Through her development it grew and grew in size (many other singers didn’t want to sing with her, not because of her personality — she was a trouper, but because they had to strain so to be heard when singing with her). As with all very large voices, the virtues are astonishing and the vices just as pronounced. Perhaps she was not capable of much subtle coloring as many smaller voices were capable of, but she was able to “raise the roof” in the theatres she sang in, and present a very powerful living drama. Her intonation was nearly perfect at all times. And, unlike is often thought, she had great stage presence. Finally, when a role came her way, one in which she had no competition, people were willing to actually open their ears and hear what she had to offer. This set of recordings is very interesting to listen to. Yes, as with all “complete works of anyone” we hear repeats of various arias. The key then is to listen and see what changes had developed as the performer expanded their understanding of the role. Few singers really show much development in that regard. In this case, there are improvements that we hear from time to time. Some of the pieces recorded do nothing for me, and I wouldn’t have wasted the time recording them, however, they reflect what producers were having singers record at that time. One role that Turner sang and excelled in was the Leonora from Trovatore. Yes, she had the necessary agility. She even produced a beautiful trill. Sadly, nothing here gives evidence to this fact. I recommend this recording for those interested in having recordings of this great and under appreciated singer who had so much to give. I recommend it also for those interested in hearing a truly huge voice (some say that even Nilsson could come close to the power of Turner) recorded with minimal destortion. We are not able to know exactly how magnificent her voice really was, not even through these recordings, but we can hear the even quality of her noble instrument. It is a pricey set, but for those who are interested in historic recordings of very famous singers, I would recommend it.
Customer Review: Voice of a Legend
Dame Eva Turner was arguably the greatest singer that England produced in the last century. Sadly, she was also one of the most under-recorded singers in history. This compilation finally releases in one package all of the material that we know of at this time. Unfortunately, that means that there are numerous recordings of the same arias, done at different times. Rumors continue as to the existence of more material in the vaults of companies in England, but none of that is available. What you will hear is the voice of the definitive Turandot, a role which Dame Eva premiered in many houses, though the first performance of the opera was sung by Rosa Raisa. However, Franco Alfano, who completed the opera after Puccini’s death proclaimed Dame Eva as the perfect Turandot. She effortlessly produces enormous waves of sound that are, at turns, steely or supple. Her instrument was one that has only been equaled by the great Birgit Nilsson. Dame Eva left the stage in 1949 and moved to Oklahoma, where she was a professor of voice at the University of Oklahoma for 10 years before returning to her native England and taking her place on the faculty of the Royal Conservatory. She died in 1990, at the age of 98.

The Man With Two Brains [1983]
Meet Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin), the famous brain surgeon. Perhaps the name is not unfamiliar, though it is unpronounceable; the good doctor is the inventor of the celebrated “screw-top” method of brain surgery, in which the top of the skull twists off as easily as the lid of a pickle jar. The man may be a medical genius, but his talent for love leaves something to be desired, which explains his marriage to a gold-digging vixen (Kathleen Turner). Ah, but Dr. Hfuhruhurr may yet find true love, in the form of the disembodied brain he discovers in the lab of a mad scientist–David Warner, gone the Frankenstein route. (Lovely image: Hfuhruhurr in a rowboat, taking the brain out for a romantic ride on the lake.) Thus, in its own utterly goofy way, does The Man with Two Brains delve into the eternal dilemma of male indecision: does a man fall in love with a woman’s body, or with her mind? Along the way, of course, there are gags both highbrow and very, very lowbrow, a mind-body split that might be why critics have tended to prefer the more sophisticated slapstick of All of Me (directed, like this film, by Carl Reiner) and Roxanne among the early Steve Martin outings. Still, this is one of Martin’s funniest pictures, and a game Kathleen Turner, fresh off her Body Heat success, ably spoofs her own sultry image. The cerebral love object is voiced by Sissy Spacek. –Robert Horton

Customer Review: Twice as boring
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) has a problem choosing between brain waves, Anne Uumellmahaye (Sissy Spacek), and “Body Heat”, Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner). The whole premise is can love be found in a bottle.

I thought ‘The jerk’ was bad until I saw this movie, both mysteriously directed by Carl Reiner. All he does is make faces with no real acting or thought behind them. A few faces are o.k. but over an over of watching grins and grimaces can get monotonous. I almost stopped watching Steve martin that is capable of making good movies like “House Sitter” (1992) with Goldie Hawn.

Customer Review: Dated movie but a classic
This is Steve Martin before he started making boring not so funny family type movies. It’s a bit dated but he is so silly. So many funny scenes, such as when he is rowing a boat on a lake with a brain in a jar and he sticks a pair of wax lips on the jar so he can kiss it (he fell in love with a brain).

Turner On Tour (Pegasus)
This attractively produced flexi-cover edition follows the grand master of nineteenth-century landscape painting as he travels the European countryside, finding inspiration and themes for his renowned drawings and paintings.

Like many 19th-century Britons, J.M.W. Turner was a passionate traveler, and the landscapes, cities and people he encountered on his journeys throughout Europe provided the stimulus for a number of his sketches, watercolors and paintings. Turner on Tour documents the artist’s European travels between 1802 and 1845, and provides fascinating insights into the ways the land and architecture shaped Turner’s work over two of his most prolific periods. Nearly every page of this volume features stunning reproductions, most of them in full color, revealing Turner’s brilliant treatment of natural light and its effects on land and sea.
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Prizzi’s Honor
Get ready for a mob hit that’s as “funny as hell” (L.A. Weekly), when legendary director John Huston takes aim at family values in “one of his very best films” (Roger Ebert)! With “a superb cast” (Boxoffice) led by Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner, this killer comedy scored eight Academy Award?(r) nominations,* including Best Picture, and an Oscar?(r) for Anjelica Huston. The Prizzi family’s principal hit man, Charley (Nicholson), is about to discover that he and his new bride (Turner) share more than just body heat: They’re both cold-blooded assassins, and their next job is to ice each other! Now Charley must choose which contract to honorthe oneto his wife or the one on his wifein this “wickedly amoral black comedy” (Screen International)! *1985: Actor (Nicholson), Supporting Actor (William Hickey), Director, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Costume Design
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Customer Review: prizzi’s honor
A fine crafted and acted story. That is why I bought it. To view it any time I wish.
Customer Review: The mafia in its family disguise or Father Christmas at Easter
When the mafia becomes the argument of an action film and little more it is no longer funny, it is no longer strange, it is no longer fascinating. It is nothing but outlandish and terroristic. It takes all Jack Nicholson can give to make these characters in anyway palatable, and even so. In the Prizzi family all other considerations than the family is outlawed, except maybe for a couple of weeks and the woman concerned by this out-breeding passing passion has to submit and take the color of the wall on which she is being pinned. If she does not then she will be executed and cut off. There is no depth in that film, no subtleties or even subtlety. Get the message, bang it down on the table and then cram it down your brain. Business is business and in-breeding is the rule. I will always wonder why a hit-woman with a reputation of efficiency and effectiveness misses her husband when he intends to kill her though she manages to shoot one bullet first. Suspend your disbelief and incredulity. The cinema is the new church of the visual dominant animal man is. To see is to believe. But at times to believe is easier when you are blind, and probably deaf too. Apart from that it is interesting even if we do spend a little bit too much time in planes going east and planes going west, kind of an airlift between New York, or whatever may titillate you, and Los Angeles, or whatever it takes to please you. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

Grand Isle
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Customer Review: Surprising
There’s something very special about this movie; the book upon which it was based must have something to do with this. I saw it years ago–but it still resonates. One day I’ll get around to reading the book+
Customer Review: Restrained Mary Lambert, but not too much so
This really is a gorgeous production and it’s nice to note that the critics have been kinder to it than other Mary Lambert films (”Pet Semetary 1 and 2″ and “Siesta”, to name a few). Lambert is usually a flamboyant director and not afraid of wearing her influences on her sleeve (Ken Russell, Nic Roeg, etc.). But like her many mentors, Lambert is capable of showing restraint when needed and “Grand Isle” is a perfect example. Set in Louisiana at the turn of the century, “Grand Isle” is filled with excellent set design and costuming. The photography is drenched in sunlight and the sequences are framed by “fades to white”. In other words, an atmospheric and ambient endeavor. The musical score is quite nice. Touches of classical piano with synthesizer washes. Other reviewers have mentioned the plot, so I won’t go in to that other than mention that there are some fabulous fantasy/flash-back sequences that are lovely and thought provoking. Those looking for a classy period romance/drama will enjoy this as much as the Mary Lambert and art-house afficianados.

William Turner Paper 11 x 17 50 Sheets
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Kustom Kulture: Von Dutch, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, Robert Williams and Others
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Customer Review: Finally, some recognition…
Although the greatness of Rob’t. Williams has been admitted by a few so-called “legitimate” art critics, it’s high time to admit the genius of people like Von Dutch, Ed Roth, Gene Winfield et al. Kustom Kulture is artistic democracy in action, “The People’s Art.” This is an attractive book, with much information and great art. If you are even the least bit interested in this subject, this book’s for you. I give it an A+.
Customer Review: Roth and Dutch live on
I have followed the work of Ed Roth and the late “Von Dutch” since 1953. The word Pioneer doesn’t even begin with the work these men have done over the last 45 years. Dutch started the trend of “Free Form” pinstriping, along with painted “figures” and some very unique “Flame Painting” back in the 1950s. Roth started building some very unique vehicles, way ahead of their time. He called himsef a “speed striper” which was a rapid form of pinstriping i,e, “no following around with fine details” yet the work was quite good. This book shows the best examples of both Roth and Dutch, and contains photos that we all thought were lost years ago. “Von Dutch” (a.k.a. Kenneth Howard) was a very underrated man, who was filled with talent and skills that would revel most of today’s artists. It was a tragic loss when he died a very lonely man. Roth did a Video of Dutch in the late 1970s, which really showed the “methods to his madness.” I personally have given a tribute to both these men by building a copy of the sign painters box (made in 1919) given to Dutch by his father. Roth has pinstriped a few of these for his charity auctions. This book is a treasure to the art of pinstriping and the “Kustom Kulture” movement.

Carousel [1956]
The 1956 screen adaptation of Carousel, like its immediate predecessor Oklahoma!, boasted then state-of-the-art widescreen cinematography, stereophonic sound, a starring romantic duo with on-screen chemistry, and the Rodgers & Hammerstein imprimatur. Adding to its promise was a source (the venerable Ferenc Molnar play Liliom) that had already been filmed three times. Contributing to the lustre are the coastal Maine locations where 20th Century Fox filmed principal photography. Yet unlike the original Broadway production, and despite evident craft, Carousel proved a box-office disappointment. Why? Hindsight argues that movie-goers of the 1950s may have been unprepared for its tragic narrative, the sometimes unsympathetic protagonist, and a spiritual subtext addressing life after death.

Whatever the obstacle, Carousel may well be a revelation to first-time viewers. The score is among the composers’ most affecting, from the glorious instrumental “Carousel Waltz” to a succession of exquisite love songs (”If I Loved You”), a heart-rending secular hymn (”You’ll Never Walk Alone”), and the expectant father’s poignant reverie, “Soliloquy”. Top-line stars Shirley Jones (as factory worker Julie Jordan) and Gordon MacRae (as Billy Bigelow, the carnival barker who woos and weds her) achieve greater dramatic urgency here than in the more successful Oklahoma!. MacRae in particular attains a personal best as the conflicted Billy, whose anxiety and wounded pride after losing his job are crucial to the plot. It’s Billy’s impatience to support his new family that drives him to an ill-fated decision, which transforms the fable into a ghost story. –Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

Customer Review: Well worth going to the Carousel
Regarded by many as the best Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, it still manages to pack a punch after all these years. Most people will probably already be familiar with the hymn-like standard ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, but there are plenty of other gems here that are worth tuning in for. Fans of Frank Sinatra may recognise Billy’s ‘Soliloquy’. The scene on the beach where Gordon McRae belts it out is now a movie musicals’ classic. My personal favourite is the beautifully tender duet ‘If I Loved You’, a song so loaded with the promise of romance and deeply felt regret all at the same time - surely (or Shirley??) one of the best love songs in any Broadway repertoire.

Another of the musical’s high points comes with the opening ‘Carousel Waltz’ itself, an instrumental piece that perfectly captures the very mood of a funfair and is probably one of Rodgers’ finest compositions. It won’t leave your head for days!

While the camerawork may look a bit dated now, the story is still relevant and quite moving. Both of the leads (Gordon McRae and Shirley Jones) are well cast and the singing is excellent. Exquisite stuff indeed.

Customer Review: A Timeless Musical Masterpiece
Undoubtedly the most touching and beautifully written of Rogers and Hammerstein's movie-musicals, this film is in turns lightheartedly funny and tear-jerkingly sad. Featuring classic songs “June is Busting Out All Over”, “If I Loved You” and “You'll Never Walk Alone” and the undisputed talent of Shirley Jones and Gordon McRae, this film will leave you with tears streaming down your face long after the credits.

In 1898 the US government, led by Theodore Roosevelt (Tom Berenger) back when he was still a young, ambitious Naval Secretary, intervenes on the side of the Cuban rebels in their struggle against Spanish rule. Always ready for action, Roosevelt leaves the confines of the sidelines and forms a volunteer cavalry regiment which later became infamously known as the “Rough Riders.” Roosevelt’s regiment brings together volunteers from all corners of the nation to fight against a far superior adversary in one of the most rousing victories in American history.
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Customer Review: Roosevelt and the Rough Riders…
1997’s “The Rough Riders” was originally broadcast as a two-part television movie. Its exceptional quality and compelling story have given it a long afterlife, first on VHS and now on DVD. The United States went to war with Spain in 1898 over the status of Cuba, a Spanish colony in rebellion. Theodore Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was one of the most outspoken advocates of war against Spain. Once the war was underway, Roosevelt put his money where his rhetoric had been and helped organize a volunteer cavalry regiment for the anticipated campaign in Cuba. The regiment, thanks in part to Roosevelt’s recruiting efforts, was an unusual mixture of cowboys, desperadoes, Ivy League athletes, and some old sweats from the Regular Army. The movie follows the Rough Riders to Cuba, where they fought dismounted for lack of transport to move their cavalry mounts. The Rough Riders would distinguish themselves in the assault on the Spanish lines outside Santiago De Cuba, in the famous charge up San Juan Hill. Roosevelt’s leadership of the Rough Riders was the making of his political career. He would become, successively, Governor of New York, Vice President, and President of the United States, and would receive a posthumous Medal of Honor for San Juan Hill. The movie is extraordinarily well-cast. Tom Berenger is pitch-perfect as Roosevelt, with his boundless enthusiasm making up for a lack of military experience. Gary Busey is priceless as General Wheeler, an aging former Confederate officer who commanded the U.S. expedition to Cuba and occasionally forgot who he was fighting. Chris Noth has a brillant cameo as one of the Ivy Leaguers, quoting Shakespeare’s “Henry V” during the famous charge. Sam Elliot does his standard stalwart turn as Bucky O’Neill, one of the NCO’s who helped whip the regiment into fighting trim in time for the move to Cuba. This movie is very highly recommended both as an entertaining movie and as a painless piece of education on a largely forgotten war.
Customer Review: Rough riders indeed!
I don’t know a lot about the US-Spanish war in Cuba, but I did like this dramatisation of parts of it! Mind you, I could watch Gary Busey standing at the street corner and like it, but seriously, thought this was a good story, well told.
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Support your favorite team by wearing this NFL youth replica jersey. This officially licensed v-neck jersey is made of durable, quick-drying nylon diamond back mesh and displays the player’s number screen-printed on the chest and shoulders. The team-colored jersey features the player’s name screen-printed on a sewn down nameplate at the upper back, with his number screen-printed at the center of the back.
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William Turner is a natural white mould-made watercolor paper with 100% rag content making it highly archival. A smooth surface suits detailed work and watercolors. The printed side of this paper has been specially coated for excellent image sharpness and optimum color graduation. The coating also offers a very high level of water resistance.
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Astaire teams up with Burns & Allen to bring some good ol’ American music and mayhem to stately England. There, lovely Joan Fontaine pines for a husband and finds Astaire. Naturally, A Damsel in Distress becomes a lady in love. Enjoy George Gershwin’s last completed score, including the pensive “A Foggy Day” amd “Nice Work If You Can Get It” plus the famed Astaire-Burns-Allen fun house dance and other inspired stepping-out that earned dance director Hermes Pan an Academy Award(R). Renowned “Jeeves” humorist P.G Wodehouse writes and George Stevens (Giant, Shane) directs. Year: 1937 Director: George Stevens Starring: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine, Reginald Gardner, Ray Noble
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Customer Review: Considering the Pros and Cons of Purchase
“Damsel In Distress,” (1937) another Fred Astaire romantic musical comedy for RKO Radio Pictures, as the studio was then known, was, despite some great help - and most of the usual suspects behind the camera — the great dancer’s first box office flop. It is, therefore, not in print, I believe, and hard to find: I settled for a used videotape, and, if you really want it, you might have to, too. So let’s look at the pros and cons. Firstly, and most importantly, neither sound nor picture is what we’ve been happy to become accustomed to. However, the talent is there. Astaire himself, of course, playing Jerry Halliday, professional American dancer visiting London. The late great vaudevillians/comics, George Burns (playing George) and Gracie Allen (playing Gracie), his staff people. But someone important is notably missing: Ginger Rogers. She is replaced by Joan Fontaine, then just beginning her career, as the romantic lead, Lady Alyce Marshmorton. There are sturdy British supporting players Reginald Gardiner as Kegs, butler with a hand in many pies; Montagu Love as Alyce’s father, Lord Marshmorton, mistaken for a gardener by Astaire’s character; Constance Collier, then a very big name in the British worlds of theater, society, and sapphism, as Lady Carolina Marshmorton, Alyce’s Aunt. The talented George Stevens directed. The nine-song score is by George and Ira Gershwin, completed before production began on the picture. Confusingly enough, some sources say this was their last completed film score; others say “Shall We Dance” was. Go figure. Pandro S. Berman produced, as usual; Hermes Pan was in on the choreography, as usual. Story and screenplay, as silly as anything Astaire ever made, were by outstanding British humorist/novelist P.G. Wodehouse: Lady Alyce is of an age to marry, but can’t make up her mind, until she shares a cab with Halliday, and falls for him. Van Nest Polglase was not on hand to supply his usual gorgeous art deco sets, but it’s doubtful that that’s what caused the movie to flop. Most people lay the blame for that at poor Joan Fontaine’s door. She was just beginning work; she was supposed to be the second lead, and help carry the picture, but she couldn’t. She was then rather colorless for starters, and she couldn’t dance. She was given only one brief dance with Astaire, and the haste with which she sits down in the nearest chair, as soon as that’s over, is still telling after all these years. Supposedly, as Fontaine, sister of Olivia De Havilland, sat at the movie’s premiere, watching herself try to dance, a woman behind her loudly said “Isn’t she awful.” The actress always said she thought this movie set her career back four years. She would eventually succeed, of course: she was nominated for an Oscar for the well-known 1940 film “Rebecca,” in which, you’ll recall, she, in character, couldn’t ride or sail, either. She lost Oscar that year, oddly enough, to Ginger Rogers, who’d gone on to better things, in “Kitty Foyle: Natural History of a Woman.” But she won the Oscar in 1941 for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion.” She always said she considered Astaire a notable exception among her male co-stars, in that he cared more about the film than himself. Well, Astaire cared about the movie, and the studio did too: that’s why they brought Burns and Allen in after production began. These seasoned performers actually could both sing and dance pretty well, in addition to being funny. They do a nice job together on “Stiff Upper Lip.” The pair, and Astaire,(both men in spats), dancing to an instrurmental number, do an infectious, enjoyable funhouse romp that most people consider the picture’s highlight. Finally, I’ve always loved Astaire’s versions of “A Foggy Day in London Town,” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” so I just plain wanted the picture. You might, too.
Customer Review: What could be better: Fred Astaire, George Burns and Gracie Allen, and the Gershwins. Everyone to the fun house!
From 1933 with Flying Down to Rio to 1939 with The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, Fred Astaire made 10 movies. All except one had him partnered with Ginger Rogers. By 1937 he decided he wanted a break, and the result was A Damsel in Distress. Who was his new partner? Well, he didn’t really have one. The closest in the film would be George Burns and Gracie Allen. Joan Fontaine, who was the love interest, simply doesn’t register strongly. Probably deliberately, Astaire chose Fontaine because she couldn’t sing and couldn’t dance. She was the antithesis of Rogers. At 20, she was sweet, shy and attractive. She makes a pleasant love interest, but the movie works as well as it does because of Astaire, Burns and Allen, and some great George and Ira Gershwin songs. Lady Alyce Marshmorton (Fontaine) met an American she thinks she loves, but her mother is having none of it. Lady Marshmorton is determined Alyce will mary Reggie, a proper British twit. She’s keeping Alyce closely watched at the the family manse, Tottleigh Castle. But Alyce runs off to London with the family’s butler, the obsequious Keggs (Reginald Gardiner) in pursuit. In London, Alyce meets Jerry Halliday (Astaire), a famous American dancer who has been promoted into a heart throb by his publicity agent, George (George Burns), assisted by George’s secretary, Gracie (Gracie Allen). One confusion leads to another, with Jerry, George and Gracie arriving at Tottleigh Castle. Then there are misunderstandings, reconciliations and leaps from a balcony. Things aren’t helped by a pool set up by Tottleigh Castle’s servants to pick who will eventually win Lady Alyce’s hand. Kegg and a young houseboy, Albert, are determined each of their own candidates will be the winner and win the pot for them. They take turns stirring the pot. However, is there any doubt who eventually wins the lady’s hand? Joan Fontaine doesn’t sing a note in the movie. Only briefly and cautiously does she share a simple but elegant dance with Astaire. She was probably the most obviously non-dancer he ever worked with. The most complicated steps she’s called upon to do are a few simple, graceful jumps. In every case Astaire is there guiding her with his hand or an arm around her waist. For a young woman with no dancing ability, it must have been a petrifying experience for her. But with Burns and Allen, two pros, Astaire has one excellent routine and one classic. With the “I’ve Just Begun to Live” theme (there’s no song), the three of them do a complicated and amusing three-way dance that is part soft shoe, part tap. The classic is danced to “Stiff Upper Lip” and takes place in an art deco fun house. The number was put together by Hermes Pan, who won an Academy Award for it. The three of them dance on and with every device Pan could think of for a fun house: Moving walkways, collapsing stairs, slides, turning tunnels, rubber doors, distorting mirrors and a circular turntable. It’s inventive, surprising and great fun to watch. And pay attention to Gracie Allen. She and her husband were one of the great comedy teams in America. At best they probably are only faded memories now. Gracie, however, was not only a skilled comedienne, she was a very good dancer. She used small gestures and never lost the ability to look “lady-like” while dancing. She could be almost as funny dancing has she was delivering her ditsy lines. The Gershwins wrote five songs for the movie and there’s not a clunker among them. The songs are smart, amusing and clever. Even the one romantic song, “A Foggy Day,” is best appreciated by literate lovers: A foggy day in London town, Had me low, and had me down. I viewed the morning with alarm. The British Museum had lost its charm. How long, I wondered, could this thing last. But the age of miracles hadn’t past. For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere. The songs are: –”I Can’t Be Bothered Now,” a fast tap number that takes Astaire into the London streets. He turns his umbrella into an animate object. The number is shot with daytime fog swirling around. –”Stiff Upper Lip” is a collection of amusing cliches, sung by Gracie. It sets up the fun house number. What made good queen Bess Such a great success? What made Wellington do What he did at Waterloo? What makes every Englishman A fighter through and through? It isn’t roast beef, or ale, or home, or mother. It’s just a little thing they sing to one another. Stiff upper lip, stout fella, Carry on, old fluff. Chin up, keep muddling through. Stiff upper lip, stout fella, When the going’s rough. Pip pip to old man trouble And a toodly-oo, too. Carry on through thick and thin If you feel you’re in the right. Does the fighting spirit win? Quite, quite, quite, quite, quite. Stiff upper lip, stout fella, When you’re in the stew. Sober or blotto, this is your motto, Keep muddling through. –”Things Are Looking Up,” sung by Astaire to Fontaine and then danced by them by the streams and trees of Tottleigh Castle. –”A Foggy Day.” Astaire sings of the first meeting he and Fontaine had while she watches him from her balcony as he strolls and dances in the fog-swept woods. –”Nice Work If You Can Get It,” is a close harmony rendering sung as entertainment at a party at Tottleigh Castle. Astaire joins in. It morphs into a fast tap and drum number for Astaire at the close of the movie, just before he and Fontaine sweep arm and arm out of the castle. The movie can be located on VHS. The copy I have looks very good. For Astaire fans, it’s a must have. The fun house number alone justifies the purchase.
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The Accidental Tourist [1988]
Customer Review: Baltimore books
Great movie and book is even better. Set me off on pleasurable trail of reading all Ann Tylers Baltimore series. Favourite so far “Dinner at the Homesick restaurant”

To take on the system, she first must take it off. Demi Moore is a single mom who turns to stripping to acquire the money she needs for a custody suit involving her child. Year: 1996 Director: Andrew Bergman Starring: Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames Special Features: Scene access Video Format: A: Standard; B: WidescreenSound: English, French: Dolby Surround 2.0; Subtitles: English, French Region Coding: 1 (U.S. and Canada)
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Customer Review: Been to the circus lately?
PT Barnum said it best, well… you know what he said, and this movie says it from start to finish; proof? -you watched it! -not because you wanted to fulfill your hungry, starving intellect ( save the denial speech ) but to satisfy your lustful libido. -there, I said it; you just wanted to see Demi’s new boobs! Once all you ‘high-and-mightys’ out there get past that BS facade you’ve dragged throughout the reviews, you can get honest for a change and admit you got your moneys worth in eye-candy… and she was well worth whatever time and money was spent! If seeing Demi as beautifully displayed as you heard she’d be, then I highly recommend buying and watching this movie. Lets face it; Howard Hughes didn’t profit in mad money selling the sensational hit THE OUTLAW to the public because it was a standard production of a western, but because of the advertised The Outlawspecially made bra to be worn and displayed by Jane Russell!
Customer Review: Demi: 10, everything else: 3
I just watched Striptease last night. Demi looked amazing! I don’t care how she got that way but her body was incredible. The dance sequences were great and using the Eurythmics/Annie Lennox songs was a perfect choice. As for the movie itself it was just an excuse to showcase Demi - the plot, characters, everything was just muddled and confused. Ving Rhames’ character was pretty cool though - very Marcellus Wallace-lite. All in all this movie is okay if you watch it while having a few margaritas!
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A 310 g/m2 version of William Turner watercolor paper. Opacity jumps to 98.8% and it is over 24 mils thick. Its natural white color also has an ISO brightness rating of 88.6. Ideal for traditional or photographic fine-art reproduction destined for presentation. 13×19 , 20 sheets.
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The creators of the original AIR BUD score once again with this all-new, hilarious heartwarming hit! This time out, Buddy, the hoop-shooting, hotshot canine, tackles a new sport — football. When his teenage owner reluctantly becomes the school’s new quarterback, Buddy catches the spirit and joins the team. Soon, the two find themselves leading the Timberwolves to the state championship. But victory hopes are sidelined when two sinister Russian circus owners take a bite out of everyone’s plans and dognap Buddy for their star attraction. So give three cheers for Disney’s AIR BUD: GOLDEN RECEIVER. Full of outrageous fun and adventure, it goes the whole nine yards for family fun.
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Customer Review: Is Tim Conway in this movie?
If anyone saw this movie it says Tim Conway from the “Carol Burnett Show” is in this movie. Can anyone tell me?
Customer Review: Dogs don’t play football
Dogs do not play football people play football. I think this movie is mocking those young athletes saying that “A dog can play sports better then you, so give up you failure”.
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Customer Review: Awesome
I loved the music on this cd. Thank you so much. My brother and I listen to it all the time.
Customer Review: Disney Always Rocks
Yeah looks like it’s a great get, if you haven’t already got every CD by disney. Didn’t know the song You’ll be In my Hear was a Tarzan track. Must be a spin off to You’ll be in My Heart. Its all good.
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Richard Rodgers always considered Carousel his favorite score, even though it didn’t generate the number of popular hits of some of the other shows he produced with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. Their adaptation of the Ferenc Molnar play Liliom is marked by three especially sublime moments. “The Carousel Waltz,” Rodgers’s alternative to the traditional Broadway overture, serves as an orchestral backdrop to the opening scene and is one of the best miniatures ever written for the theater. “If I Loved You,” which establishes the romance of carnival barker Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae, a late replacement for Frank Sinatra) and nice girl Julie Jordan (Shirley Jones), is a musical minidrama in which the pair’s discussion of how they are not in love reveals just how much they are in love. “Soliloquy” is Billy’s powerful solo that foreshadows the action to come in Act II. Add the inspirational anthem “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” and you have Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most extraordinary, near-operatic score. On the soundtrack for the 1956 film, MacRae and Jones are in exceptional voice (following their success in 1955’s Oklahoma) and the orchestra sounds glorious, but unfortunately some of the numbers were shortened, most notably “If I Loved You.” Extensive production notes, an interview with Jones, and a synopsis are included. –David Horiuchi
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Customer Review: So perfect
My father beat me once for a misdeed, and I resolved then and there that Iwould never cry under his beltings again. He whipped me ’til his belt broke and I would not give him the satisfaction of one tear. But this music…and this movie… draws out what the belt could not. It gets me every time. I fight it and the tears well up on their own…what a perfect tragedy this movie is, how haunting the music. Gordon McRae was such an artist. His singing is perfect and inspired in these songs — and Shirley Jones complements him so well. I fell in love with her Julie at first sight. If you haven’t got this music or this movie, you are missing out on one of life’s greatest treasures.
Customer Review: Complete Version
Since the 1970’s newer copies of Carousel Have tracks that are edited Thank God this version has a lot more music including the complete seven minute version of The Carousel Waltz I believe the movie itself doesn’t play the whole waltz
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Ars Brittanica - Old Hall Manuscript, Madrigals & LuteSongs

Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
It’s the start of a Boo-tiful friendship when Scooby-Doo and Shaggy get up-close-and-spooky with some supernatural siblings in this all-new animated movie! After Shaggy’s uncle leaves him a fortune in hidden jewels, Scooby and Scrappy join him for the ultimate scavenger hunt through the trap doors and tunnels of the haunted old Beauregard mansion! Terrified by the ghost of Shaggy’s uncle, the gang calls in reinforcements — the wild-and-ectoplasmic Boo Brothers, a phantom family of ghoul-chasing ghosts! Join them as they unravel the mystery in the all-new movie, SCOOBY-DOO MEETS THE BOO BROTHERS!
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Customer Review: A childhood favorite of mine, still plenty of typical Scooby Doo fun.
The premise is that Shaggy inherents a spooky, decaying mansion from his Uncle Beaureguard, and the movie begins as he, Scrappy-Doo, and Scooby-Doo are en route to the mansion. The whole estate is pretty spooky and decayed looking, replete with swamps and forests surrounding the house, a perfect setting for mystery and mayhem. At the mansion they are greeted by a sinister butler with a humorously overdone but still jarring laugh in Farquard. This does nothing to alleviate the nervousness Shaggy and Scooby are feeling, and with the introduction of the ghost of Uncle Beaureguard, an escaped ape (pursued by Sheriff Buzby, your typical thick-drawled, incompetent, and overweight Southern sheriff stereotype) they’re ready to leave, when they find a message from Uncle Beaureguard that says Shaggy must solve a series of riddles to locate his treasure. To deal with the ghosts, they call in “ghost exterminators” - the Boo Brothers, who indeed are a knock-off of the Three Stooges in every way. With the treasure beckoning, and the fact that their truck is incapacitated, they stick around, despite Uncle Beaureguard’s ghost, a skeleton ghost, a headless horseman, the ape, the bumbling sheriff, the Boo Brothers doing more interfering than helping, a hillbilly girl who has fallen in love with Shaggy and takes every opportunity to press her unwanted affections, and her hillbilly brother who “protects” his sister by hunting Shagggy and the gang and shooting at them. Well, treasure usually isn’t easy to come by. The riddles lead the gang around various areas of the esate - to the attic, basement, graveyard, caves, etc. One of the things that appealed to me as a kid (and still does) was the neat idea of this vast, spooky estate you could explore, with the fearful crumbling mansion at the forefront. There’s secret passages to be found, and the skeleton and Confederate ghost (Uncle Beaureguard) to be found at every turn, or more mundane foes to be avoided. The idea of the riddles, that solving the first riddle leads you to the location of the second one, and so on, was something I thought was very cool as a kid, though it’s an old idea. I think the animation and look of the show is pretty well done, considering the time, budget, and technology. The mansion and its grounds do give off a spooky air of decay and mystery; the setting is excellently accomplished. The supporting characters are mostly old stereotypes played out for humor but that works well for what it is. The ghosts are suitably menacing for this sort of thing, and Scrappy-Doo isn’t as obnoxious as he’s been on other occasions (though I’d like to have seen what this movie would’ve been like with the original Mystery, Inc. gang). The suspense of getting to the treasure is nicely built up, and there are some fine revelations along the way to keep viewers interested. In conclusion, this movie isn’t rocket science or anything complicated. In fact, to your average modern audience there probably isn’t a whole lot ot recommend this film. But, for whatever reason, it clicked with me growing up and even now. It’s got a classic gothic ghost story set-up, which usually appeals to me, along with some slapstick and typical Scooby-Doo humor. It’s fun, moves quickly, and shows more than just perfunctory thought and effort put into it (as opposed to later Scooby-Doo movies). I give it five stars because it succeeds for what it is.
Customer Review: excellence
I ordered this for my grandchildren as I live in England and they are in the states.Both myself and my Son were delighted with the product.Well done,I will certainly use you again.Thank you

The Virginian
The Virginian leaves the state of his birth to make a new life for himself on the frontier of the American West. He falls in love with Molly Stark, a schoolteacher also new to Wyoming, and becomes the foreman of a successful cattle ranch, hoping to make good in her eyes. But he is forced to resort to violence when he must protect the ranch against the treacheries of a rival rancher and the betrayal of a former friend.
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Customer Review: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
There are no words to describe how SLOW this movie was from beginning to end, but let me try anyway so as to give people a fair chance to avoid it and thus try and prevent their day/evening from being ruined: the film deals with the story of a schoolteacher from New England who meets a Virginian cowboy on the plains of Wyoming. The presence of Bill Pullman and Diane Lane did very little to alleviate the pain of watching this slooow and boooring mooovie… In addition, Diane Lane’s character was way to pushy/bossy/feminist for late 19th century, making it rather unrealistic. As for the supporting characters, this film does not seem to be their thing, and subsequently they look like they are out of place. In relation to the plot and the dialogues, they are way beyond “below average.” With the exception of the setting, (the plains are indeed breathtaking!) everything else is nothing to write home about. In conclusion, the potential for a decent movie was there if only the writers had the ability to… write! A shame really… Rent or buy at your own risk.
Customer Review: Love this movie.
I love westerns. Simple, clean, classic stories of moral dilemas. This is one of my favorites.

Afros & Bellbottoms
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Customer Review: OMG, Sinbad’s SO crazy
I saw A&B on HBO live in ‘93 and I laughed so hard, it was the kind of laugh that doesn’t have volume; it build up like a ballon although it’s trying to get out, until finally it erupted in a massive wave of racket (so said my downstairs neighbors). I LOVED IT. A TOTAL SCREAMER. Which is why I don’t go to comedy clubs. If it’s funny, I’ma laugh so hard, I’ll draw attention to myself so much so someone like Sinbad would have a field day with me. Sinbad gives me hope in comedium in that you can be funny and not necessarily need to cuss, although I DO enjoy it as well. Sinbad’s a comic genius and what’s more, he comes across as honest in his musings. I have only one complaint: for God’s sake, WHY AIN’T THIS ON DVD?!? If there is a DVD, someone PLEASE tell me how I can buy a copy (NO BOOTLEGS!!) If there isn’t a DVD yet, I hope one will be created complete with sidebars from Sinbad. He is SO, da man.
Customer Review: Sinbad’s the Best!!!
Afros and bellbottoms was great! Sinbad had the whole family cracking up. It’s nice to hear such great humor without the usual cuss words that so may comedians think is neccessary. Great job,Sinbad!!!!

Roy Williams Signed White Custom Jersey - Dallas Cowboys NFL Football Sports Memorabilia
Roy Williams signed white jersey (Sz 52). All name and numbers are sewn-on. Item comes with the Tri-Star Productions certificate of authenticity (COA), and tamper-proof numbered hologram that can be verified online.
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A Portrait of Sir Adrian Boult

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Customer Review: Not exactly the best book of Turner’s work.
This book provides basic background information on Turner’s progression as an artist, and it does contain a nice selection of Turner’s landscapes. However, the reproductions are poor in quality, hardly doing the authentic works justice.
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Customer Review: One of the best in the series
This last installment in Naxos’s Barber series collects together some of Barber’s lesser known and hard-to-find pieces. The Fadograph of a Yestern Scene and the Canzonetta are achingly beautiful and not often recorded. My major complaint with this release is the placement of A Hand Of Bridge. Being a somewhat erratic vocal piece, it does not belong in the middle of the CD where it breaks the meditative flow of the other five instrumental pieces. It either belongs as the last selection on the CD, or better still, paired with Knoxville, Summer of 1915, another Barber vocal composition. That other CD, was also poorly programmed by Naxos by their inclusion of two of Barber’s three orchestral Essays. These lovely pieces shouldn’t have been tainted by their proximity to the vocal piece. That is, an all-vocal Barber CD would have been welcomed by all. At 52:28, the skimpiest offering in Naxos’s survey of Barber’s work.
Customer Review: A Great Final Disc
This is the final disc in Naxos’ series of the orchestral music of Samuel Barber, and it ends with more great performances. The Capricorn Concerto (named for the home in Mount Kisco that Barber shared with Gian Carlo Menotti) is not often recorded but deserves much more attention. The concerto is greatly influenced by Igor Stravinsky and is a triple concerto for oboe, flute and trumpet - a neo-classical re-working of Bach’s Second Brandenburg Concerto. The concerto is an engaging work in three movements that explores the virtuosity of the three solo instruments. The surprise on this disc is the pocket-opera A Hand of Bridge where two couples playing cards think indulgently on their obsessions. The libretto is by Menotti and has quite a biting wit to it, however, the performance recorded here is only adequate. The earlier recording by Vladimir Golshman and the Symphony of the Air has a better balance and better singing overall. The voices on this recording are sometimes not clearly heard over the music and the soprano sometimes does not maintain control. Still, this is performance will be of interest to those interested in Barber rarities. There is no libretto, which would have been a welcomed addition. The Mutations from Bach is a late work for brass instruments and was meant as a tribute to Barber’s favorite composer. The famous Intermezzo from Vanessa, from Barber’s first and very successful opera, depicts the spurned heroine, connecting two scenes and providing emotional context. The Canzonetta for Oboe and Strings was to have been a concerto but the ailing Barber was only barely able to produce this short piece, an elegiac and romantic close to a distinguished career. The depth of feeling in this recording is beautifully expressed. Fadograph from a Yestern Scene is a tribute to Barber’s interest in James Joyce. This is a later work when the composer was living as a recluse and composed little. The inspiration for this short piece is Finnegan’s Wake. It is a quiet, impressionistic work, commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony, and was the last orchestra piece that Barber completed. This is a remarkable disc that anyone interested in the music of Samuel Barber will want to have. Marin Alsop has proven to be a remarkable interpreter of Berber’s music and her series of recordings with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra will be the ones that all newcomers are compared against.
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Leap into a fantastically monstrous world where hijinks become high art, curfews and chores vanish from sight, and a wacky, irrepressible monster can become your best friend! Eleven-year-oldBrian (Fred Savage, “The Wonder Years”) knows that there’s a monster under his bed. And when he sets a trap for ithe captures an experience beyond his wildest dreams! Led by Maurice (Howie Mandel), a horned, blue-green prankster extraordinaire, Brian discovers the vast subterranean hideout of the “Little Monsters”and the best friendship he’s ever had. But soon, Brian realizes he’ll have to shut the door on this dream come true…or risk the nightmare of becoming a Little Monster himself!
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Bought it for my younger brother, as it was a favorite of mine and my older brothers. Features Howie with horns and ratty clothes, not a suit and beautiful women.
Customer Review: kids movie
I bought this movie years ago for my children, and they loved it. I was pleased to find it again on Amazon, so I could purchase it for my nephews. It’s an enjoyable movie for adults and kids. My youngest nephew who is usually afraid of certain movies loved this one.
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If you have not noticed it lately…Pirates are hot!! So, don’t be left out in the cold! This new cutlass sword has everything a brave pirate needs to fight those angry mutants. Equipped with a 29 1/4″ blade constructed from steel with an authentic aged finish. The classic black handle is accented with cast zinc guard and pommel. The wooden scabbard features a cast metal throat with pirate emblem. 38″ overall
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Roy Williams signed Wilson Official NFL Duke Game football. This was signed at our Private Signing and comes with a Schwartz Sports certificate of authenticity (COA) original of which was signed by him, photo of him signing, and matching tamper-proof holograms.
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Byrd - Gradualia, Vol.1: The Marian Masses

Dating all the way back to the 17th century, this saber mirrors those widely used during Pirate battles and raids. The saber, or short sword, was ideally constructed with a shorter, fatter blade allowing it to handle increased tension from close quarter combat. Equipped with stainless steel, 22 1/4″ blade with rounded by cast metal basket allowing for superb hand protection. Includes leather sheath. 28 1/4″ overall
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Customer Review: Best sword for the money
Looking for a pirate sword, look no further. Ordering was hassle free and I got it within five days of ordering it. Very nice blade, slight edge, basket was nice on the outside but slightly unfinished on the inside ( some rough edges). Scabbard had nice design and looks good hanging at your side. All in all for the price it can’t be beat. My son loved it!
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This is a great story. Best Billy the Kid ever and written by Gore Vidal. After about one week of filming, Val Kilmer was really into his character and actually looked like the picture of William Bonney. I was there. I was the Location Manager on this film. It was shot at the Old Tucson Studios in Tucson, AZ. Gore played the Preacher in the Cemetary. You can check it out of IMDb.
Customer Review: Not a big budget movie, but good entertainment.
This is not a glossey high amp western with a great sound track like the Young guns set. It doesn’t even cover much of the Lincoln county war. What it does have though is a somber and gritty realism. What it covers of the kids life is historically pretty accurate.I gave this film four stars because of the fine portrayal of the kid by Val Kilmer. He shows him as a some what awkward troubled adolecent with a wry sense of humor. And when he has the famous portrait done,with that toothy grin, he really could pass for William H. Bonney.I recommend this movie for those who don’t require constant action and would enjoy a good historic story.
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Hahnemhle s mould-made William Turner paper has 100% rag content making it highly archival. Its smooth surface is perfectly suitable for detailed work and watercolors. (20 Sheets of 11 x 17 William Turner paper)
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In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil companies don’t want the competition. Now he has to try and keep them from getting his idea, and somehow get it published.
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Customer Review: A Film That Holds Water
An interesting yet sad allegorical story set in the depression era by David Mamet. There is some truth simmering underneath a plausible plot. THE WATER ENGINE stars William H Macy as Charles Lang who invents an engine that runs entirely on water. When he tries to get get backers to help him patent the engine, he finds himself in a web of deceit,threats, betrayal and murder. There is no happy ending in this film because the minute he tries to reveal his invention, everything snowballs to less than positve results. Any help Lang tries to obtain, there seems to be a network of law enforcement to media (i.e. newspapers) that can’t or won’t help him. The point to the story is obvious as the power of the oil and auto industry are entities not to be reckoned with and that sometimes (or most of the time) the little man will lose to the big corporations.
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A fine little movie based on a play by David Mamet. It maybe gets a little carried away with itself towards the end, and suffers from its “made for television” aesthetic, but it’s still well-performed, gripping, and dark.
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Goldau Fine Art Poster Print by William Turner, 14×11
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After the box-office success of Phenomenon, John Travolta continued to charm audiences with this 1996 comedy-fantasy in which he plays a grubby angel who’s got one last good deed to do before heading back to heaven. Living peacefully in the rural Iowa home of an old, friendly motel owner (Jean Stapleton), the winged Michael (Travolta) is hardly the image of a perfect angel. He’s scruffy, unshaven, eats sweetened cereal by the box-full and chain-smokes all day long. But when tabloid reporters (William Hurt, Robert Pastorelli) learn of Michael’s alleged existence and head to Iowa to check him out, Michael soon realizes that it’s his task to see that Hurt falls in love with an “angel expert” (Andie MacDowell) and breaks free from his habitually cynical attitude. There’s more to the story, of course (and Chasing Amy fans will recognize Joey Lauren Adams as a waitress who charms the angel), but Michael is more about the effect that this enchanting angel has on the earthbound humans around him. Whether he’s chipping away at Hurt’s skepticism or attracting a crowd of women on a truck-stop dance floor, Michael is an enchanting figure, and Travolta plays him with just the right tone of humor, reverence, and effervescent charm. Sure, it’s lightweight fluff, but director Nora Ephron specializes in lightweight fluff, and Michael is the kind of feel-good movie that never wears out its welcome. –Jeff Shannon
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One of John Travolta’s best movies. It’s old but enjoyable. One that can be watched several times.
Customer Review: Michael
Three tabloid journelists go in search of an angel and find more than they thought possible.John Travolta as always fills the screen, in more ways than one. Three lost souls and an angel on the road (also in more ways than one), to understanding, redemption, and love. This is a funny, heart warming and very satisfying journey for any age.
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Traveling the back roads of North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, Charles R. Mack spent the summer of 1981 talking with the potters who produced the face jugs, mugs, and plates that had skyrocketed in popularity in the late 1970s and collecting examples of their wares. He was, in effect, taking the pulse of a southern folkway on the brink of transition.

With the benefit of a quarter century of hindsight, Mack has now gathered these interviews into Talking with the Turners, a single volume that documents the world of southern pottery as it shifted from the production of utilitarian wares to the aesthetic realm of folk art. In their own words the turners, most of whom are now deceased, explain what it means to be a potter, to be part of a profession that passes from generation to generation, to experiment with new designs while continuing to produce traditional forms of ceramics. Arranged thematically, the interviews emerge as an open dialogue among the participants—the type of backroom shoptalk that collectors and scholars are rarely privileged to share.

In addition to the centerpiece interviews—many of which are also featured on an accompanying audio CD—Mack includes numerous color and black-and-white photographs of the potters, their shops, and their wares. Mack’s extensive commentary sets these particular potters in the context of the larger American ceramics tradition, explains pottery techniques, and summarizes recent changes in pottery making.

Talking with the Turners is augmented by an introduction by Lynn Robertson, director of the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina, and a foreword by William R. Ferris, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
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Customer Review: A remarkable achievement
A remarkable achievement. The included audio CD is worth the purchase price alone! As a self-taught potter, I particularly appreciate this book. Of the hundreds of items I’ve purchased through Amazon, this is the first time I’ve felt really compelled to offer a review. Anyone even marginally serious about making pottery on the wheel or better understanding its Southern roots in the United States will benefit greatly by reading this book and listening to the candid interviews of humble rural craftspeople who did this work simply because they discovered its value and it became their life. This is a wonderful book, and Mr. Mack has captured some real wisdom here that now will be available for many generations to come.
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William Turner is a natural white mould-made watercolor paper with 100% rag content making it highly archival. A smooth surface suits detailed work and watercolors. The printed side of this paper has been specially coated for excellent image sharpness and optimum color graduation. The coating also offers a very high level of water resistance.
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Who are queers and what do they want? Could it be that we are all queers? Beginning with such questions, William B. Turner’s lucid and engaging book traces the roots of queer theory to the growing awareness that few of us precisely fit standard categories for sexual and gender identity.

Turner shows how Michel Foucault’s work contributed to feminists’ investigations into the ways that power relates to identity. In the last decades of the twentieth century, feminists were the first to challenge the assumption that a claim to universal identity—the white male citizen—should serve as the foundation of political thought and action. Difference matters. Race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality interact, producing a wide array of identities that resist rigid definition and are mutable. By understanding the notion of transhistorical categories—woman, man, homosexual, and so forth—feminist and gay male scholars launched queer theoretical work as a new way to think about the politics of gender and sexuality.

A Genealogy of Queer Theory probes the fierce debates among scholars and activists, weighing the charges that queer readings of texts and identity politics do not constitute and might inhibit radical social change. Written by a historian, it considers the implications of queer theory for historical inquiry and the distinction between philosophy and history. As such, the book will interest readers of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender studies, intellectual history, political theory, and the history of gender/sexuality.
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Customer Review: A Genealogy of Queer Theory
From experts to beginners, Bill Turner provides the key to knowing how queer theory began and evolved. This historian and queer theorist maps the various themes and directions the major writers took while founding his book on the essential thoughts of Michel Foucault. This book helps keep my studies on track. I would help a novice gain a perceptive overview.
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The Fighting Temeraire Fine Art Poster Print by William Turner, 28×23
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