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Jefferson in Paris
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 28
Average rating: 3.0 of 5
Editorial Review:
While American history buffs and Gwyneth Paltrow fans will want to own this movie just because, it actually compels the viewer to examine the life of our third president a little more closely. Jefferson focuses on the mid-1780s, when widower and pre-presidency Jefferson (Nick Nolte) replaces Benjamin Franklin as the U.S. representative to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. A lively period, to say the least. And lively, too, is Jefferson, keeping time with a married woman (Greta Scacchi). Also in Paris is one of Jefferson's six children, his eldest daughter Patsy (Paltrow), who went on to have 12 children of her own--remarkable for the time. When another daughter dies back in Virginia, Jefferson sends for his youngest, who brings along her slave, Sally Hemings (a luminescent Thandie Newton), then 15. As nearly everyone knows now, Jefferson allegedly had a long relationship with Hemings and, reportedly, several children with her. This Merchant-Ivory production, written by frequent collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, languidly attempts to depict a complete portrait of the obviously complex and conflicted Jefferson, who kept slaves but penned the Declaration of Independence.Initially, Nolte may seem an odd choice--he doesn't resemble the familiar visage on a nickel (or $2 bill). Still, Nolte's performance and his contemporary feel lend a credibility and immediacy to the fascinating story--however true or apocryphal it may be. --Nadine Mendoza
JOEY THE COMPLETE SEASON 2
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- The COMPLETE Season 2
- New Sealed 4 diisc set
- Episodes 25 - 46
- Final 8 Episodes NEVER Aired
- Collector's Item
Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 29
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Who's your buddy, who's your pal? Joey! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.
I'm so glad this 2nd season was finally released. Don't get suckered into buying the $100 bootlegs in Amazon's Marketplace, or even the $60 + $15 shipping originals on ebay. Go to Amazon.ca and get the originals there. With International Priority shipping I paid something like $50 total, and got it in about 5 days. This show is hilarioius. Ever since Friends I always thought Joey deserved his own show, and I'm glad they did it, if only for 2 seasons. I really like both seasons, but the 2nd season featuring Zack and Jimmy are hilarious. Joey's friend Zack has incredible dialogue delivery with amazing timing, and just about cracks me up everytime he opens his mouth. Michael's father Jimmy (who had a couple episodes on Friends as Chandler's crazy temporary roomate) has the insane ability to get enraged and worked up about everything and generally finishes off a conversation whilst screaming and storming out of the room. Good, good stuff, Definately a must have for any Matt LeBlanc fan!!!!!
Editorial Review:
Joey says goodbye to a time when his friends were his family and welcomes the chance to turn his family into his friends. After reuniting with his high strung sister Gina, a strong and sexy hairdresser, Joey moves in with her genius 20-year-old son, graduate student Michael, who literally is a rocket scientist. What Joey lacks in book smarts, however, he more than makes up for with his people skills, making him the best new friend his nephew could ask for. This is the COMPLETE Season 2 of Joey with episodes 25 - 46. The Final 8 episodes have not ever aired, making this FINAL Season of Joey a Collector's Item.
Judy Garland Christmas Show
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Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Editorial Review:
Spend a December evening with Judy Garland!
This episode from her CBS - TV show, recorded December 6, 1963 captures the great entertainer and her kids, Liza Minnelli and Lorna and Joe Luft, in a one-hour songfest taking place in the family living room. Garland is mostly a spectator, encouraging the 17-year-old Liza and the younger kids, Lorna (who displays a big voice on "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" and went on to have her own performing career) and the less-assured Joe (who sings one of the many non- seasonal selections, "Where Is Love," during which an anxious Garland can be glimpsed mouthing the words along with him). But she does sing two of her most memorable film songs -"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "Over the Rainbow"- plus "Little Drops of Rain" and she can still kick up her heels. Even one of her flubs produces one of the best moments: she joins Mel Tormé at the piano for his "Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," and when she botches the lyric, he gently chides her, "Close!" Also on hand are Liza's "beau," Tracy Everitt, a dancer on the series, and clean-cut pop star Jack Jones, who sings his Grammy-winning hit "Lollipops and Roses" as well as a nice a cappella version of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" with Tormé.
MTV Jackass, Vol. 2
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
Editorial Review:
When Andy Warhol made his prophetic comment about fame, he could not possibly have anticipated the lengths some would go to get their 15 minutes. Consider Johnny Knoxville and his posse of merry pranksters. These are America's funniest home videos, a generous and representative sampling of segments from the notorious MTV series Jackass, which capture men behaving very badly, and very stupidly. Knoxville and company are mostly content to do injury to themselves and each other (their poor and battered groins alone must be eligible for combat pay). Other segments have a demented Candid Camera quality. In one, Chris Pontius dons a werewolf suit and runs amok through London. In another, two hockey players continue their "fight" inside a store. Throwaway bits, such as the popping of a blackhead, cleanse the palate between stunts. As one observer notes: "You'd have to be an idiot to try this." Watching this, however, is another matter. And by the way, there is no volume 1; go figure. --Donald Liebenson
The Jetsons: The Complete First Season Disc 1
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Total reviews: 1
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Editorial Review:
The Jetsons (1962) was the third primetime series from the Hanna-Barbera Studio, after The Flintstones (1960) and Top Cat (1961). Although the show was cancelled after its first season, it proved a durable Saturday-morning favorite, running for more than 14 years on all three networks.Like The Flintstones, The Jetsons borrowed heavily from live-action sitcoms, notably The Donna Reed Show and Hazel. The 21st century became a Futurelux vision of a '60s suburb. George Jetson (voiced by George O'Hanlon) pushed buttons for the penny-pinching Mr. Spacely (Mel Blanc). Judy (Janet Waldo) was a typical teenager with a crush on rock & roll singer Jet Screamer. Elroy (Daws Butler) was a bright little boy whose experiments always blew up. Astro (Don Messick) was one of the first anthropomorphic dogs that became a Hanna-Barbera standard. Jane (Penny Singleton, basically reprising her role in the Blondie films) kept everyone and everything on course. The Flintstones used rocks and animals to approximate everyday appliances; The Jetsons had high-tech gadgets that invariably malfunctioned and clobbered George. The Jetsons hardly ranks as great animation, but for anyone who grew up during the '60s and '70s, it's the comforting video equivalent of a slice of yellow cake with fudge frosting and a glass of milk. (Rated G: alcohol and tobacco use, minor cartoon violence) Note: This item is disc 1 (seven episodes) of the four-disc season 1 set. --Charles Solomon
MTV Jackass, Vol. 3
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 9
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
i messed up 5 out of 5 stars.
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i just did the huge all-chapter review...tandem biking is not a chapter its between bottle skating and poo switcheroo (it says tb is a chapt. on the card in the dvd box)...when you watch bottle skating wait after and you'll see tandem biking, and 43. is 90 year old man #3. sorry!
Editorial Review:
Volume 3 is everything you want in a Jackass compilation, and more: more arrested adolescent behavior, more outrageous stunts and pranks, more "poo." Pogo-stick skateboarding, ice-block downhill skating, and backwards bull-riding are representative of the way-extreme stunts that have made Johnny Knoxville and his posse folk heroes to Generation BMX. But Jackass turns it up to 11 with its fearless forays into public performance art. In one of the more benign segments, Rick Kosick shaves his head and dons a frightful toupee, which he proceeds to drop in front of people. Funnier are the bits with Knoxville convincingly costumed as a 90-year-old man. In a more grisly segment, Knoxville and a partner subject an unsuspecting carpet cleaner to a bloody scene of escalating mayhem. And it wouldn't be Jackass without frontal assaults on the groin. Guaranteed to get the party started, this volume, at 78 minutes, has tremendous shock value. --Donald Liebenson
Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Third Season
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 17
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Editorial Review:
When he realizes that Honoria Glossop may once again have her sights set on his precious bachelorhood, Bertie Wooster sets sail for the New World. In spite of the change of scene, our hero continues to get into the most terrible scrapes, and it falls to the faithful Jeeves to save the day, frequently.The first three episodes of this third season of Jeeves & Wooster take place in Manhattan, where Bertie helps old pal Tuppy to make a business deal. At the same time he has to keep Motty Malvern on the straight and narrow, while helping two writer friends deceive their prying relatives. The final straw comes in the shape of Cyril Bassington-Bassington, the stage-struck son of Aunt Agatha's closest friend. Back home in England, Bertie and Gussie Fink-Nottle switch identities, the lunatic Roderick Spode reappears, Bertie is forced to commit burglary (again!), and there's a spot of trouble with a tin of treacle and some communists. The unflappable Jeeves is Bertie's only hope.
Although the humor in this collection sometimes feels a little less assured than in earlier episodes and the new actor playing Gussie is a disappointment, the central performances of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are as good as ever. Few actors have ever brought such beloved characters so convincingly to life. --Simon Leake
Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Fourth Season
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 15
Average rating: 3.5 of 5
Right ho! 4 out of 5 stars.
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The fourth season of "Jeeves and Wooster" has the same problem as the third -- half of it takes place in America, and these are probably the weakest of the series. But the series has a solid finale as the pair return to England, and several romantic subplots are wrapped up for good.
Bertie "Returns to New York" and the comforts of the more laid-back America, only to have Aunt Agatha and his prodigal cousins Claude and Eustace turn up. Unfortunately, the cousins only pretend to leave for South Africa, because both are now madly in love with a nightclub singer. To make matters worse, Bertie has to help his pal Tuppy win back a high-strung girlfriend.
"The Once and Future Ex" Florence Craye comes to New York, and shows an uncomfortable interest in Bertie. That doesn't sit well with her violence fiancee Stilton Cheesewright, a cop bent on enforcing Prohibition. Unfortunately when the two break up, Florence gets her claws into Bertie, and her cold-hearted American cousin begins blackmailing him. Can Jeeves save the day at a costume party?
"Bridegroom, Wanted" when Bertie's first ex-fiancee Honoria Glossop arrives in New York, determined to marry somebody -- even Bertie. Bertie tries to enlist a starlet to pretend to be his fiancee, but it backfires when the girl's agent insists he marry her for real. Bertie's only means of escape? A round-the-world escape with Jeeves!
But he can't escape his exes even when he gets back to England. "The Delayed Arrival" causes problems when Bertie accidentally breaks up Stilton and Florence. To make matters worse, Aunt Dahlia's magazine is for sale, and Jeeves has to impersonate an American lady novelist to impress a potential buyer. The problem is, Stilton finds Jeeves-in-drag maddeningly attractive...
"Trouble at Totleigh Towers" starts when Madeleine becomes a vegetarian, and says Gussie has to be too. The problem is, it makes him grumpy, and it's putting a strain on their engagement -- especially since he is falling in love with the chief. And the Machievellian Stiffy Byng blackmails poor Bertie into stealing an African totem from her uncle, believing that there's a curse on it.
"The Ties that Bind" begin to choke people when Bertie arrives at Totleigh Towers, thinking that Florence and Madeleine are safely engaged. Unfortunately when local politics go awry, Roderick Spode decides to run for office -- and Madeleine breaks their engagement. Now Bertie is engaged to two horrible women at once... unless Jeeves can save him from a fate worse than death.
It's hard to wrap up such a scattered series, but the fourth season of "Jeeves and Wooster" manages to do a good job. The first few episodes are the weakest of the entire series, since it seems like the scriptwriters simply didn't know what to do when Bertie and Jeeves are cornered.
But after that, things get wild and hilarious, with both our heroes in (ugly) drag and more mad antics at Totleigh Towers. And though Jeeves always saves the day, whether by blackmail or masks, the explosive finale is an absolute stunner. Exploding baptismal fonts, kangaroos, and a stolen book of scandals are just a few of the things that turn up.
The cast is STILL in flux, since Sir Roderick, Aunt Agatha, Florence and Stiffy all undergo cast changes again. Some are good, some are bad. But the vacant-eyed and helium-voiced Madeleine, painfully hearty Honoria and the violent ex-Nazi Roderick Spode are the same as always. And Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are, as always, wonderfully funny as the hapless aristocrat and his brainy manservant.
While the first half is rather weak compared to the rest of the series, the last half makes up for this. And while it's sad to see the hilarity end, Season Four is a fitting finale to a wonderful comedy series.
Editorial Review:
Jeeves is the ultimate gentleman's gentleman, a silent, cerebral and engagingly protective butler with a steadfast dedication to his master. Wooster is the classic British young man of means, blessed with a touch too generous a heart and a slight deficit in the noggin department. Their adventures together, chronicled in P. G. Wodehouse's classic tales, have charmed generations of readers. And the TV adaptations of these enchanting stories, starring Hugh Laurie (Black Adder, Sense and Sensibility) and Stephen Fry (Wilde, Cold Comfort Farm) won dedicated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. The acclaimed JEEVES & WOOSTER programs have finally come to DVD. This eagerly anticipated set includes these exquisite escapades:Return to New York
The Once and Future Ex
Bridegroom Wanted
The Delayed Arrival
Trouble at Totleigh Towers
The Ties that Bind
The Dick Van Dyke Show/Petticoat Junction/Jack Benny Show/Groucho Marx
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Greg Garrison Presents The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts: Men of the Hour: George Burns and Jack Benny
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Total reviews: 1
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
entertaining 5 out of 5 stars.
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Enjoyed rewatching the Dean Martin Roasts. Watched them orginally in the seventies. Laughed all the way through them.
Editorial Review:
1970s era tv show with dean martin as emcee and featuring comedians of the era poking fun at greats: george burns and jack benny...the jack benny roast is from 1974...the george burns roast from 1978