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William Crawley Meets Melvyn Bragg ( part 1 )
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The Who: The Kids Are Alright (Deluxe Edition) $8.77 Explosive rockumentary look at one of pop music's greatest bands, The Who. Follow the rise of Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey, and Keith Moon through concert clips, vintage TV appearances and interviews, and more. All your favorite Who songs--including "My Generation," "Baba O'Riley," "Won't Get Fooled Again," "Pinball Wizard," and "Who Are You"--are featured. Standard; Soundtracks: ... |
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The Who - The Kids Are Alright (Special Edition) $29.98 Half its members may be dead and its leader may be keeping a low profile, but the Who remains enormously popular. Devotees who haven't availed themselves of Jeff Stein's thrilling, self-mocking 1979 documentary about the group shouldn't wait another minute now that the film has been painstakingly--perhaps heroically--restored to its theatrical-release length from original elements. The sound is cl... |
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The Who - The Kids Are Alright (Deluxe Edition) $22.98 Half its members may be dead and its leader may be keeping a low profile, but the Who remains enormously popular. Devotees who haven't availed themselves of Jeff Stein's thrilling, self-mocking 1979 documentary about the group shouldn't wait another minute now that the film has been painstakingly--perhaps heroically--restored to its theatrical-release length from original elements. The sound is cl... |
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Jesus Christ Superstar [VHS] $4.25 Ted Neeley makes for a wimpy looking Jesus in Norman Jewison's screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice "rock opera," which was a smash on stage in the early '70s. Jewison (Other People's Money) adds some good exterior settings in the desert, but Webber and Rice's dialogue-free story (everything is sung, as in a real opera), with its quasi-profundities about the inner demons of princi... |
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Isadora [VHS] $9.98 Vanessa Redgrave stars in this film biography of the free-spirited modern interpretive dancer Isadora Duncan. Trained in classical dance, Duncan shattered the traditional conformities in her art and her personal life. The film begins at the end of her life as she recalls the past while dictating her memoirs to her male secretary. Her uninhibited sexuality and insistence on personal freedom and exp... |
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Jesus Christ Superstar [VHS] $3.47 Ted Neeley makes for a wimpy looking Jesus in Norman Jewison's screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice "rock opera," which was a smash on stage in the early '70s. Jewison (Other People's Money) adds some good exterior settings in the desert, but Webber and Rice's dialogue-free story (everything is sung, as in a real opera), with its quasi-profundities about the inner demons of princi... |
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The Adventure of English $52.74 Spoken by one-third of the world's people, the English language has grown and evolved in fascinating and unpredictable ways from its earliest beginnings. This fascinating documentary miniseries examines the power and impact English has had around the world in matters of commerce, culture, and diplomacy. Author/broadcaster Melvyn Bragg interviews Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, John Barton of the Roy... |
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The Music Lovers $16.85 Studio: Allied Vaughn Release Date: 09/27/2011... |
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language $8.82 “The ideal tour guide . . . both entertaining and informative.”—BooklistHere is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent adventure, full... |
