Produced as PBS specials, Broadway’s Lost Treasures I, II, & III feature legendary stars—including Patti LuPone, Nell Carter, Jerry Orbach, Gwen Verdon, Ethel Merman, Kristin Chenoweth, Angela Lansbury, Joel Grey, and many more—performing musical numbers from legendary shows—including Anything Goes, Man of La Mancha, Guys and Dolls, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, Fosse, Miss Saigon, Crazy for You, and many many more.
The Best of the Tony® Awards–The Plays features acting greats, such as James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Annette Benning, Kevin Kline, and Morgan Freeman, performing key scenes from 19 celebrated plays, including The Great White Hope, The Heidi Chronicles, Fences, Hamlet, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
For theatre lovers, it doesn’t get any better than this!
The second and third volumes feature newer, fully staged performances that are almost indistinguishable from an actual show, including scenes from splashy, high-energy revivals such as Anything Goes (Patti LuPone and company performing the title tune) and Guys and Dolls (the fabulous "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat"), and new shows such as Grand Hotel (Michael Jeter and Brent Barrett in a gloriously exuberant "Take a Glass Together"), Les Miserables ("One Day More"), La Cage aux Folles (George Hearn solo and with a chorus line in drag in "I Am What I Am"), Ragtime (the opening number), and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Kristin Chenoweth's "My New Philosophy"). The new generation of splashy dance-oriented musicals are also represented by the likes of the 42nd Street revival (the title tune and "We're in the Money"), Fosse ("Sing, Sing, Sing"), and Crazy for You ("I Can't Be Bothered Now").
The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays features 19 of the dramatic and comedy excerpts showcased on the Tony Awards telecasts between 1969 and 2001. From 1969 are James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope and Art Carney in Lovers, and other performances include Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzack in Lettice and Lovage (1990), John Lithgow and B.D. Wong in M. Butterfly (1988), Joan Allen and Peter Friedman in The Heidi Chronicles (1988), and Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver in Speed-the-Plow (1988). The performances aren't specifically organized by date or performer, but the collection concludes with four excerpts from August Wilson works followed by three Shakespearean works. The excerpts are brief, lasting 2-3 minutes each, and even though each segment is introduced by a narrator, this format clearly works better for musicals than it does for plays. Regardless, it remains a rare chance to see stage performances that for the most part are not available on home video. Collectors who already own the three musical volumes, however, will have to weigh how badly they want The Plays when they consider mostly duplicating their purchase with the Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection. --David Horiuchi
Beyond Lost
 Lost: The Complete First Season |  Lost: The Complete Second Season |  The Lost Chronicles : The Official Companion Book by Mark Cotta Vaz |
 Lost: Music From the ABC Television Series by Michael Giacchino |  Lost: Season Two Soundtrack by Michael Giacchino |  Bad Twin by Gary Troup |
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Unfortunately, you do have to sit through a lot of aforementioned nuisances to get there. Season 3 kicks off with Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) held captive by the Others; Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Sun (Yunjin Kim), and Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) on a mission to rescue them; and Locke, Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) in the aftermath of the electromagnetic pulse that blew up the hatch. Spinning the storylines away from base camp alone wouldn't have felt so disjointed were it not for the new characters simultaneously being introduced. First there's Juliet, a mysterious member of the Others whose loyalty constantly comes into question as the season goes on. Played delicately by Elizabeth Mitchell (Gia, ER, Frequency), Juliet is in one turn a cold-blooded killer, by another turn a sympathetic friend; possibly both at once, possibly neither at all. (She's also a terrific, albeit unwitting, threat to the Kate-Sawyer-Jack love triangle, which plays out more definitively this season.) On the other hand, there's the now-infamous Nikki and Paulo (Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro), a tagalong couple who were cleverly woven into the previous seasons' key moments but came to bear the brunt of fans' ire toward the show (Sawyer humorously echoed the sentiments by remarking, "Who the hell are you?"). By the end of the season, at least two major characters die, another is told he/she will die within months, major new threats are unveiled, and--as mentioned before--the two-part season finale restores your faith in the series.
The extras are as well-stocked as a Dharma Initiative food pantry on this seven-disc set. Commentaries by producer Damon Lindelof, show writers, and numerous cast members reveal a whole lot of juicy trivia; plus, the DVDs even provide a subtitle track for the commentary (rarely seen other than on foreign-language director's commentaries) so you won't miss a thing. "Lost Book Club" goes through the parallels between what characters are reading and the show's storylines (The Wizard of Oz and Stephen King are heavily referenced). "Lost: On Location" gives a lot of insight to some of the biggest episodes, and "Lost in a Day" gives a 24-hour glimpse at the drama's arduous production. If you're a Lost fan who gave up during this season, the bonus features alone might lure you back for the next round. --Ellen A. Kim
1941. America had just entered World War II, but terrifying unseen weapons were stalking US targets, sinking over 400 ships just miles from American shores in the worst naval defeat in United States history. The stealthy predators were German U-boats, Hitler’s deadly warships of the deep. It was cataclysmic—with bodies and wreckage washed ashore on the eastern seaboard. But the Allies ultimately triumphed, sinking over 700 enemy submarines.
Fifty years later, the personal drama behind this wartime state of siege resurfaced when a team of divers discovered an unidentified German U-boat deep in the waters off the New Jersey coast. What boat was it? And what secret mission brought it there? The divers embarked on a dangerous, six-year quest to uncover the secret of the mysterious wreck. Three divers lost their lives in the search, but the clues uncovered have shed remarkable new light on the struggles and triumphs from this undersea war.
There’s more in this spectacular two-hour video journey. Trace the history of submarines and undersea warfare from the American Revolution through World War II, and tour the sophisticated—and cramped—interior of a captured U-boat. Dive in dangerous waters with deep sea detectives as they attempt to retrieve clues that will reveal the decaying U-boat’s identity. See how the breaking of secret Nazi codes by the Allies altered the outcome of the war—and helped unravel the mystery behind this German U-boat. And finally, travel to Germany with the divers as they rewrite a part of World War II history, bring closure to families of the lost crew and discover how one man’s life was spared.
- Discover how the fearsome, mechanized marvel known as the trebuchet catapulted warfare in different directions in Medieval Siege
- See how ancient Egyptians used nautical experience, ingenuity and unwavering faith to raise 500-ton granite monuments in Pharaoh’s Obelisk
- Unlock secrets behind the massive "moai" statues on Easter Island and learn how this vanished civilization may have carved its way to extinction
- Discover why the intimate luxury palaces of Roman Bath remain such an impressive achievement today
- Return to the Song Dynasty in China Bridge where the revolutionary Rainbow Bridge reveals intricate mysteries of China’s inventive past
The five episodes in this boxed set take you around the world and through time. Medieval Siege explores warfare of yore, as a team attempts to build a trebuchet, a giant weapon used to impregnate fortresses. Easter Island travels to a remote island in the South Pacific where giant human forms, sculptures called moai, dot the landscape. Discover how approximately 900 moai were carved over a period of 500 years by ancient people who had only stone tools hewn from volcanic rock. Pharaoh's Obelisk looks back 3,500 years to the time of Hetshepsut, as a team tries to build the giant stone obelisks that helped the pharaoh control her people. Roman Bath attempts to re-create those infamous places of community and hygiene, despite the lack of blueprints and information. Finally, in China Bridge, experts endeavor to raise a wood-and-bamboo bridge over a river near Suzhou, China. A mixture of science, history, and cultural studies, this series is a delightful exploration into the mysteries of centuries long past. --Jenny Brown
Lost Peace revisits the popular hopes and experience in the years following World War I—and the looming threat of a new nationalism: despite Woodrow Wilson's promise of a "people's peace," old prejudices refused to die and nationalist passions again began to rise. Defeated nations were left out in the cold, resentful and unreconciled. Fascism and militarism spread while pacifist movements fought an increasingly unsuccessful rearguard action to preserve the dream of peace. By the late 1930s, people had to choose between avoiding war at all costs, or talking up arms to resist aggression. Fifty-five million lives were about to be lost in a second world war.
The people remember: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations, Yankee isolationism, German reparations, American volunteers fight the Spanish Civil War, invasions by Mussolini and Hitler.
Spanning the years 1919 to 1936, this compelling episode of the Emmy Award-winning People's Century series chronicles how the elation following the cease fire ("the prettiest piece of paper I ever saw," states one American soldier) inexorably dissolved as the world rearmed itself for a war that would claim the lives of 55 million.
The narrative of the failure of the League of Nations to stop the rise of fascism is interwoven with the memories of a diverse group of eyewitnesses from around the world. Recalling the United States' retreat into isolationism, one American soldier remembers returning to his farm after the war. "We wasn't interested in any foreign countries," he states. "We was interested in our own selves and home."
We experience the springtime of hope that greeted the birth of such new nations as Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. One Czech woman recalls her mother weeping, "We have freedom."
But it was short-lived. In 1935 Italy defied the League of Nations and invaded Ethiopia. Germany annexed Austria. Japan conquered Manchuria. The storm clouds of war were on the horizon, and the world once again raced to arm itself. "I would never have thought that we would be stupid enough to go to war again," remarks a former French soldier. "I never thought I would be called again 20 years later." --Donald Liebenson
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A remarkable number of story threads found their way into season 3. Starting with a two-parter concerning the kidnapping of a newborn baby belonging to J.R. (Larry Hagman) and Sue Ellen Ewing (Linda Gray), problems just keep on sprouting like weeds. First, there's Sue Ellen's emotional deep-freeze and refusal to nurture her child as a healthy mom should, which in turn prompts the childless Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) to free her maternal instincts toward J.R.'s son, much to the chagrin of J.R.'s brother, Bobby (Patrick Duffy). Meanwhile, teenager Lucy (Charlene Tilton), abandoned daughter of missing Ewing son Gary (David Ackroyd), threatens to teach J.R.'s son, one day, to turn against the Ewing clan, inspiring J.R. to escalate plans to get rid of Lucy any way possible. (Gary, by the way, kicks into gear a famous Dallas spin-off by moving to Knots Landing, California.) Matriarch Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes) faces a mastectomy, making her worry that husband Jock (Jim Davis) will stop loving her, though he faces problems of his own when a skeleton found buried on Ewing property turns up near Jock's missing handgun. (Whoops.) Finally, J.R.'s almost Shakespearean manipulation of the sale of Asian oil fields to old family friends, just before those fields are nationalized, is brilliantly wicked stuff. His actions have enormous, grievous ramifications--not least of all for J.R. --Tom Keogh
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How very nice, all good reasons to watch Tim Allen "Home Improvement" series, of which this collection was the last season to be remembered. Under the good reasons are more fun, writing character-oriented, a focus on a healthy family, affectionate and reasonably well adjusted, the estimate occasionally hilarious tumble physical ... and I've always liked the rather clever transitions. They were small, throwaway bits, but still. He said the world of entertainmentthat such care and creativity, with more than a relatively small detail.
That said, was seeing a little 'shock, has become as much the boy was the first season to season eight, but obviously he was eight years old. The father of eleven bright, and adoring pre-schoolers is a newcomer and an average of college students have until the end of everything. And I think we should hide all the possible and impossible means half of the nearby Wilson workedTake in all the circumstances. But do not destroy the ability Toolman, appliances and gadgets of all kinds, which, like Wily Coyote genius of creative destruction, was a fountain that never went dry Tim, as in the bonus round "The Home Improvement Users' Guide for be demonstrated. A sequence of this special meeting characterized by a series of explosions barbecue grill, dishwasher and souped revolving Christmas trees shedding sparks and clouds of smoke ... It 'been so much fun we playeda couple of times we laugh every time the tears. All in all, a series that was very good, especially compared to the current crop of situation comedies on the broadcast networks.
The rest of the season goes up and down, suffering from some pointless celebrity appearances (Morgan Fairchild, Jay Leno, Oprah Winfrey, magicians Penn & Teller) and stunt-casting (Playboy playmate Jenny McCarthy as a mechanic Tim flirts with), and the departure of Jonathan Taylor Thomas (whose teen heartthrob career never quite launched) throws off the long-established family dynamic. But even otherwise rote episodes have satisfyingly funny moments (in a Halloween episode, there's a nice bit of slapstick when Tim, dressed as a flying monkey from The Wizard of Oz, can't get his wings through a doorway). The comfortable interplay among the seasoned cast ensures that longtime fans will find much to enjoy. The extras include some brief interviews, a blooper reel, and a retrospective special. --Bret Fetzer
FUNimation has done an outstanding job on the dubs for Dragon Ball Z, but she seemed to hurry through the GT-Dubs. They do not stop and think: "How Cheesy is that the sound" or "Wait ... is not that Pan 15?" No, FUNimation just an old used set of entries in Z, and tried to do a show. This is not working well. Add the rap / rock song, and you have a strange sight. The biggest thing is wrong with the dub of absaence Schemell Sean (Goku adult), who takes away so much. There arealso too few appearances by Christopher Sabat (Vegeta, Piccolo).
But the Japanese version is perfect. The voices are great, the dialogue is well written and funny and the music is excellent. FUNimation and gives us perfectly on this DVD. Unlike the DVD-Z, where it is held that the tone sounds in mono and 50 years. (Even if Z and GT are both pretty old) the sound is great and is as good as the English dub.
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The Lost Episodes is onlyEpisodes 1-15, that FUNimation not before. Now they are all here, what defines all 64 episodes of GT. GT is in itself a good series, nt as good as Z, but keep the same spirit. Akira Toriyama, Japanese author of Z must be strong in the spin-off of short Z., buy this, then the volumes 2-5, and then buy the afflictions generations have to do.
And do it in Japanese.
This is the first season DVD set of the "new" Twilight Zone, aired during the 1985-86 season. The unique stories of the original series is the new standard with many stories of many famous science fiction writer wrote conducted. The video quality seems to have seen the series on television in 1980 (on a high definition TV, there is a clear and sharp sound). As another reviewer mentioned, the video archives of the TV series onlycomposed of old videotapes and no negative film and video transmission quality was limited. However, this DVD is packaged very well, which is a summary booklet of sequence and each of the six DVDs on a plastic support separate page, which provides excellent protection in any DVD player. Two episodes of what I consider to be the best in this series in this series - "A Message from Charity '(episode 6) and" Her Pilgrim Soul "(episode 12). For older viewers, it's Danny KayeFeatured in an episode before he died - "Paladin of the Lost Hour" (Episode 7). The DVD set is the audio commentary from the stars and production crew that the discussions of each episode, which has only the value of the cost of the DVD set details. Even if Rod Serling was not alive to see this remake of his original series, I'm sure he agreed.
A year after Powell's death in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Grand Canyon and declared it to be "a natural wonder absolutely unparalleled in the world . . . one of the great sights every American should see." The Grand Canyon would come to be embraced like no other natural place in America, a national shrine for those following in the footsteps of John Wesley Powell. This American Experience film is an account of the dramatic quest to explore one of the most unforgiving, and breathtakingly beautiful, places on earth.
I bought this DVD at the same time I bought a lot cheaper Groucho Marx: You Bet Your Life - 14 classic episodes.
I love this DVD. I love Groucho. I have all the MP3 files from "You Bet Your Life", radio broadcasts, and I want a complete set of the TV series was available.
But, the other DVD was simply a much better value. Now I want to be "The Lost Episodes", or at a discounted price, but the 18 episodes here are no better (or worse) that the 14 episodes ofabove reference to "bargain" DVD. I have to admit that packaging is much better on this set, and there are some extra OK, but not much to add value to these shows, you can do without the extras.
This is a great product, do not get me wrong. But in terms of bang for the dollar, falling behind the DVD-14 episode referenced above.
Groucho Marx is arguably the most famous, iconic comedian of all-time. It's funny to think that for all the great films and stage appearances he made throughout his career both in the Marx Brothers act and solo, Groucho seemed to prefer this modestly-produced TV series above all others. Groucho was the emcee and star of this filmed quiz show and though it was ostensibly a game show, the series' most important asset was the humor injected by Groucho into the interviews he did with the contestants You Bet Your Life ran on television from October 5, 1950 - June 29, 1961 (423 episodes), one of the longest running shows in the history of television. (There were also 105 episodes that aired exclusively on radio.) The program was renamed The Groucho Show during its last season and has been seen in syndication as The Best Of Groucho for the last 40 years.
While there was a modicum of preparation before these shows were filmed, most of Groucho's one-liners and snappy comebacks are impressively off-the-cuff, hilariously demonstrating the mastery of humor that Groucho--still vital in his well-heeled sixties--had honed over decades of live performance. His frequently nervous contestants are equally amusing, sometimes giving as well as they got from their rapier-witted host. They are also occasionally exceptional: professional baseball umpires; super-athlete Bob Matthias; a decorated Korean War hero; a Mr. And Miss Universe; a celebrated mystery writer; TV comedian Ernie Kovacs; British "hipster" comic Lord Buckley; and even Gary Cooper's mother appear as contestants. With a revealing glimpse of '50s popular culture, these well-produced DVDs also include a wealth of You Bet Your Life artifacts: the "stag reels" showcase Groucho's deft handling of "mature humor" edited from the original broadcasts; a behind-the-scenes film reveals the show's inner workings and primary staff; and ads for Plymouth/DeSoto dealers (the show's sole sponsor) are quaintly charming by latter-day standards. Best of all, Groucho's original radio audition is included, along with a priceless 10-minute radio clip featuring Groucho and Bob Hope--a comedy gem that led to Groucho's long-term employment on television. For Marx Brothers and Groucho fans, this is a treasure trove of smile-inducing nostalgia. --Jeff Shannon
