Leigh H. Edwards

Reviews

TV

The Closer

[21.Jul.08] :. In The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda Johnson often walks a fine line between complex and irritating.

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Saving Grace

[16.Jul.08] :. In the second season premiere of TNT's Saving Grace, Grace's pursuit of drama took forms that were both overt and effectively repressed.

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TV

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

[18.Jun.08] :. Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List is hilarious -- and the very mixed reactions to Kathy Griffin reveal how well "Hollywood" takes the heat.

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Books

The Selling Sound by Diane Pecknold

[23.May.08] :. Understanding the 'hillbilly' image of country music: how the industry created a glamorous ideal the larger music community could identify with -- and finance.

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DVDs

Cary Grant 4-Disc Collector's Set

[28.Mar.08] :. All these films reflect the gendered assumptions of their era. But Grant emerges victorious, no matter the role. His coat of armor is his charm, and he inhabits it seamlessly.

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DVDs   The Riches: Season 1

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DVDs

Various Artists: Opry Video Classics [DVD]

[11.Mar.08] :. A must-have for serious country fans, many of these performances never before available on DVD, are knock-outs.

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DVDs   And Baby Makes Two

Books   Celebrity Detox by Rosie ODonnell

Books   Genre in Popular Music by Fabian Holt

DVDs   Schmelvis

DVDs   Johnny Cash: Christmas Special: 1976 [DVD]

Books   Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis by Charles Reagan Wilson

DVDs   The Closer - The Complete Second Season

DVDs   Runs House - The Complete Seasons 1 & 2

DVDs   Bob Dylan: World Tour 1966: The Home Movies [DVD]

DVDs   Waylon Jennings: Nashville Rebel [DVD]

DVDs   Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash - Live From Austin TX [DVD]

DVDs   Various Artists: The Best Of Hootenanny [DVD]

DVDs   Best of Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters Show

DVDs   Gene Simmons - Family Jewels - Season One

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DVDs

Misc. Artists: Outlaw Country: Live From Austin, TX [DVD]

[7.Dec.06] :. The effort to share music with fellow travelers and the appreciative Austin audience is a key part of that painful, uncertain effort to reach insight and express meaning through the music.

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DVDs   The Big Valley: Season One

DVDs   Wonder Showzen: Season One

DVDs   Charmed: The Complete Fourth Season

DVDs   Survivor Pearl Islands - The Complete Season

DVDs   Significant Others: The Complete Series

DVDs   Benjamin Franklin / John & Abigail Adams (American Experience)

TV   Get This Party Started

DVDs   Eleanor Roosevelt (American Experience)

DVDs   The Amazing Race: The Seventh Season

DVDs   That '70s Show: Season Three

DVDs   Pioneers of Primetime

DVDs   Jackass: The Box Set

DVDs   Extreme Makeover - Home Edition

DVDs   The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

DVDs   Ken Burns: American Lives

DVDs   Power Rangers S.P.D. Vol. 2: Stakeout / Power Rangers S.P.D. Vol. 3: Wired

DVDs   Drawn Together - Season One

DVDs   The Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Third Season

DVDs   The Red Tent (1971)

DVDs   Tying the Knot

DVDs   The Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Second Season

DVDs   Sacred Planet (2004) - PopMatters Film Review )

TV   Meet Mister Mom

TV   The Law Firm

DVDs   The Brady Bunch: The Complete Second Season

DVDs   Laguna Beach: The Complete First Season

TV   Average Joe: The Joes Strike Back

DVDs   Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause: Noam Chomsky, Carol Chomsky - PopMatters Film Review )

TV   Trippin'

DVDs   Dog the Bounty Hunter: The Best of Season 1

TV   Supernanny

DVDs   The Dukes of Hazzard: The Complete First Season

DVDs   Paul Robeson - James Earl Jones One Man Show

DVDs   Reba: The Complete First Season

DVDs   The Untouchables: Special Collector's Edition (1987)

TV   Wife Swap

DVDs   Death: A Love Story (1999)

TV   World Idol

DVDs   American Masters - Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea

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Consuming Consumables

The Best of Hootenanny [$44.98]

[12.Dec.07] :. This DVD captures acts ranging from The Carter Family to Johnny Cash and rafts of others who were on the folk circuit playing their hearts out in the earnest belief that folk culture is the lifeblood...

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The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1976 / 1977 [$14.98 each]

[6.Dec.07] :. These Johnny Cash Christmas Specials offer a country music time capsule from the 1970s. Belting out songs of the season with his usual suspects, Carl Perkins, the Carter Family, and the Statler...

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