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Beryl Bainbridge
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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard / Marks, Grey, Opera World $8.36 The foreboding Tower of London provided a suitably somber setting for one of Gilbert and Sullivan's more serious works. Joel Grey stars as jester Jack Point, who fears he will lose the beautiful Eloise when she agrees to a "marriage of convenience" with doomed Tower prisoner Colonel Fairfax. With Elizabeth Gale, Alfred Marks. 115 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo.... |
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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard / Marks, Grey, Opera World [VHS] $3.98 The Yeomen of the Guard, one of Gilbert & Sullivan's least satiric and most charming works, largely stars its rich, operatic score. The story, set at the Tower of London during Tudor times, is also beautifully constructed, with terrific pseudo-Shakespearean language. For such a vibrant piece, this video (part of the Opera World series of Gilbert & Sullivan works, made for the BBC in 1982) is ... |
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Awfully Big Adventure [VHS] $3.00 A star-struck teenager finds herself in the grown-up world of the theater.... |
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Sweet William $29.99 Stars Sam Waterston, Anna Massey, Geraldine James, Jenny Agutter A British-American production, Sweet William is an R-rated movie about sexual relationships that focuses on the flings of an untamed Scotsman named William (Sam Waterston). William has had two marriages and many affairs, and he approaches more romantic adventures without feeling any guilt. His next target is a sensitive and naïve Lo... |
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Hugh Grant Collection 4 Film Favorites (Music and Lyrics / Two Weeks Notice / Mickey Blue Eyes / An Awfully Big Adventure) $5.99 Set in Liverpool after World War II, "An Awfully Big Adventure" (1995) focuses on a ragtag theatrical troupe which includes a cruel, effete director (Hugh Grant) and an enigmatic, motorcycle-riding lead actor (Alan Rickman). An orphan girl gets involved in the unpredictable backstage world and experiences the joys and pains of first love. With Georgina Cates, Rita Tushingham. Two-disc set also inc... |
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Every Man for Himself $7.28 If ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it is here. The fated voyage of the Titanic, with its heroics and horror, has been dramatized many times before, but never by an artist with the skills and sensibility of Beryl Bainbridge. Bainbridge vividly recreates each scene of the voyage, from the suspicious fire in the Number 10 coal bunker, to the champange and crystal of the first-c... |
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The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot dress and a one-way ticket. In an America recently convulsed by the April assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent urban riots, they begin a search for the charismatic and elusive Dr. Wheeler- sage, prophet an... |
