Editorial Product Review: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008 Run time: 119 minutes Rating: R essential video:A sensitive yet humorous adaptation of the stage play, this 1970 film directed by William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is one of the first films to openly address gay issues in a matter-of-fact style that largely avoids stereotyping. Shot on one set and featuring a birthday party as the festive setting, a group of friends assemble to celebrate, reminisce, and discuss their lives and the travails of being gay, even as one friend insists ...
Editorial Product Review: :Film adaptation of the george abbott broadway musical about a washington senators fan who makes a pact with the devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Tab Hunter Jean Stapleton Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Nr Director: George Abbott/stanley Donen :America's pastime gets a Faustian twist in this 1958 studio musical, which recounts the ballpark bargain struck by an aging Washington Senators fan obsessed with helping his team trump the Yanks. With echoes of the real-life 1919 Shoeless Joe Jackson ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Richard Burton stars in this exciting story of the stubborn, courageous men who held Rommel at bay in North Africa despite hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941, and Rommel has the British in full retreat. All that stands between him and the Suez Canal is the fortress of Tobruk, manned by a small army of Australian troops who are ordered to hold this vital position at any cost. Many of the men are green recruits, and it falls to Capt. MacRoberts (Burton) to whip them into shape. A bold tactician who realizes ...
Editorial Product Review: :Mini series Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: 08/31/2004 Starring: Robert Mitchum Hart Cochner Run time: 690 minutes :The second half of this massive miniseries covers events from the last two years of World War II with members of our fictitious family--the Henrys--scattered throughout the world. Pariah 'Pug' Henry (Robert Mitchum) visits Russia and England as an advisor--and proposes to his much-younger lover, Pamela (Victoria Tennant)--before retuning to the Pacific theater to join his son Byron (Hart Bochner), a submariner, in battling the Japanese. Meanwhile, Byron's wife, Natalie (Jane Seymour), and ...
Editorial Product Review: :Mini series Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: 08/31/2004 Starring: Robert Mitchum Hart Cochner Run time: 810 minutes :The ambitious TV event War and Remembrance was the final opus in the golden age of the maxi-miniseries. This six-disc set offers the first half (seven episodes) of ABC's mammoth 30-hour production of Herman Wouk's bestseller--itself a sequel to the landmark Winds of War--mixing fictional and real characters around the events of World War II. It starts a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor and abruptly stops in July 1943 with the ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Beyond intercourse, beyond intimacy lies the world of Tantric sex. Ancient philosophers believed sexual energy was one of the greatest forces of humankind. In just 60 minutes the viewer will learn to harness this sexual energy to increase their lovemaking potential. Attractive couples demonstrate the techniques that take orgasm out of the genitals and into the five senses for a long-lasting, full-body experience. Breathing, massage, and romantic ambiance enhance pleasure. Movement, erotic positions, and relaxation expand sexual awareness. The viewer will learn to prolong his or her orgasm, finally merging with their ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:In this light-hearted wartime comedy, three WWII Navy men orchestrate a 4-day leave for themselves in San Francisco. Once ashore, they immediately set out to make it a swinging celebration - to last as long as possible! Chief among the party-bound is Commander Andy Crewson (Cary Grant). Desperate to keep the men on the straight and narrow, Lieutenant Walter Wallace (Werner Klemperer) commits the trio to becoming spokesman at a local shipyard that's owned by a local tycoon. But before long, the rowdy Crewson is courting the shipmaker's voluptuous daughter (Jayne Mansfield) ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Back and better than ever, the heroic Three Musketeers deliver rollicking good movie fun in the action-adventure tradition of THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK! Sexy international star Sophie Marceau (FIRELIGHT, BRAVEHEART) plays Eloise, the beautiful daughter of renowned Musketeer D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret -- CINEMA PARADISO). When she discovers a murderous conspiracy to overthrow the King of France, the feisty Eloise calls upon her father and his famous ... though now retired ... brothers-in-arms to reunite in the name of justice! A wildly entertaining story of courage, love, and betrayal -- you're ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Aten-hut, dudes. Fall in with the cadets of Sheldon R. Weinberg Military Academy, where the new arrivals have decided that anything goes. So the first things to go are the rules. In the tradition of Stripes and Police Academy, Up the Academy deploys film-debuting Ralph Macchio and company in a series of raunchy, madcap maneuvers. Barbara Bach as a fully-armed armaments expert, Tom Poston as an instructor whose favorite subject is bedcheck and Antonio Fargas as a sadistic soccer coach provide choice comic moments under the direction of Robert Downey (Putney Swope, ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Sybille, a rebellious girl, bets a publisher that she can write an erotic masterpiece. Reading her work, he agrees and contracts to publish her book, promising that she can be anonymous. Sybille's chief problem is that she is a virgin. So she undertakes lots of 'research,' observing others and finally seducing her publisher. The book is a best seller - and he betrays her - intimating he was instrumental in the writing of the book and dumping her for her older sister. And of course, she's hopelessly in love with him. So ...
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.
