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The private love letters of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: A new book reveals intimate details of their romance
Along with the high drama of their two marriages and two divorces, the Burtons’ relationship brought with it all the modern accoutrements of celebrity: relentless paparazzi, yachts and private jets, grand hotels, fabled jewels and glittering parties.
Angelina Jolie – Greek Bio Video
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Rembetiko: Special Edition $17.70 Studio: Facets Multimedia Release Date: 09/25/2007… |
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Jimi Hendrix [Region 2] If any artist deserved a hagiography it was Jimi Hendrix, and Joe Boyd’s 1973 “authorized” tribute adequately sanctifies the legend. Perversely for a documentary, it achieves this simply through well-chosen concert footage rather than through the insights of the various talking heads. Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, and Germaine Greer are all wheeled out to wax lyrical ab… |
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Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen [VHS] $9.98 This 1965 Canadian documentary captures Leonard Cohen just as he was poised to translate his notoriety as a novelist and poet into a parallel identity as a singer-songwriter. If the latter role would bring him his broadest and most enduring audience, these glimpses of a still youthful Cohen underscore the Montreal native’s prevailing literary sensibilities–even when his poetry readings verge on s… |
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Love In the Ancient World [VHS] $19.99 ” Throughout recorded history, man has devised countless ways to control the urge for sex. This one-of-a-kind exploration ventures back to the great civilizations of the past for a titillating look at LOVE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD.From the wild excess of the fabled Roman orgies to the blistering sands of Egypt, the diverse and fascinating sexual practices of the ancient world are unveiled. Rarel… |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen [VHS] This 1965 Canadian documentary captures Leonard Cohen just as he was poised to translate his notoriety as a novelist and poet into a parallel identity as a singer-songwriter. If the latter role would bring him his broadest and most enduring audience, these glimpses of a still youthful Cohen underscore the Montreal native’s prevailing literary sensibilities–even when his poetry readings verge on s… |
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Elizabeth [Blu-ray] $15.49 One of the big Elizabethan-era films of 1998, Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth serves up a brimming goblet of religious tension, political conspiracy, sex, violence, and war. England in 1554 is in financial and religious turmoil as the ailing Queen “Bloody” Mary attempts to restore Catholicism as the national faith. She has no heir, and her greatest fear–that her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth will as… |
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The Greek Gods , Gods And Goddesses : The History Channel 2 Pack Collection $19.96 This sweeping look at the legendary gods of ancient Greece includes footage of some of the most beautiful artwork ever created. Their exploits were recorded in stories passed down from generation to generation, their images the basis of some of the most beautiful artworks ever created, and their names echo through history to this day. From their mythical home high atop Mount Olympus, the great … |
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The Fathers Speak: St Basil the Great, St Gregory of Nazianzus, St Gregory of Nyssa $15.35 As we, Christians of the twenty first century, study the Fathers of the Church, their writings (often in an unreadable English produced by clumsy translators) appear to us as foreboding, verbose, and somewhat closed within a world where theological contemplation replaces everyday reality. The Greek Fathers in particular have this reputation among students because they wrote relatively little about… |
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Middle School Learning System 2007 (Win/Mac) $10.95 Middle School Learning System 2007 is Self-paced, interactive software with multi-sensory instruction approach: use of pictures, text, and audio benefiting all types of learning styles. It provides various levels of difficulty motivates, stimulates, and challenges your students, practice tests and activities to reinforce and assess comprehension, and the ability to print test sheets to monitor yo… |
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Symposium (Oxford World’s Classics) $5.77 In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests–including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato’s mentor Socrates–each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates’ famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain… |
