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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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The Riches: Season 1

[20.Mar.08] :. This show has a fizzy, gothic atmosphere and a biting insider-outsider critique of society.

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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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And Baby Makes Two

[12.Feb.08] :. As this documentary about women who choose to be single mothers asserts, the promises and perils of the biological clock are resonating more loudly than ever with some in today's society.

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Celebrity Detox by Rosie ODonnell

[8.Feb.08] :. O'Donnell assesses the process whereby individual artists become celebrities, and what it's like when they and their audiences start to lose their sense of perspective in the midst of such intense, superficial media scrutiny.

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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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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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