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Minstrel Show (sound recording)

Material Type: All, Music — Posted on December 19, 2008 at 9:27 am

By: Kuhn, Joseph

This is a magnificent selection including “Preacher and the Bear” and “Asleep in the Deep” Warren Biggs (Basso) was perhaps the finest bass singer in the history of this “Pre-Politically Correct” format. I’ve got an original copy (still) in good condition. Some of the jokes I still use — the best involved a Hair Restorer.

Reviewer: James Thurber

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Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday papers, 1985-1995

Material Type: All, Books — Posted on December 15, 2008 at 8:33 am

By: Watterson, Bill

This book is like totally kewl and it is soooooooooooooooooooooo funny :D

Reviewer: Longhorn Reviewer

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American Wife: A Novel

Material Type: All, Books — Tags: — Posted on December 12, 2008 at 8:57 am

By: Sittenfeld, Curtis

The summary says most of what you need to know about plot, leaving out only that this is a novel about sphinx-like first lady Laura Bush. What *must* she think of it all? The bulk of the novel, and the best part, deals with the early life of Alice Blackwell, the LB-surrogate, in the days before her husband became first a governor, then POTUS. Sittenfeld gives some sympathetic insight into how someone could find herself living a life “in opposition to itself.” This novel will make you want to read bios of Laura Bush, as well as more fiction by Curtis Sittenfeld.

Reviewer: tonstant weader

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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

Material Type: All, Books — Tags: , , , , , — Posted on December 11, 2008 at 9:14 am

By: Harris, Mark

Any serious or casual movie buff should read this book. It interweaves the stories of five movies nominated for Best Picture Oscar in 1967: “In the Heat of the Night”, “The Graduate”, “Bonnie and Clyde”, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, and – most improbably – “Dr. Dolittle”. These disparate films, with their long, tortured development and production histories vividly described, represent a watershed moment in the history of the US film industry. The old Studio System, dominated by moguls and super-producers like Jack Warner, Joe E. Levine, Stanley Kramer, Walter Mirisch, and the like, was tottering on its last legs, consumed with turning out expensive “road-show” musicals and epics like “Cleopatra”, “The Sound of Music,” and “The Bible” – which, if successful, could put a studio in fine financial condition. But if they failed, which they began to do with shocking regularity in the mid-60s, they could break a studio and end careers.

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Reviewer: David Flaxbart

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Favre

Material Type: All, Books — Tags: , , — Posted on December 3, 2008 at 11:44 pm

By: Brett Favre and Bonita Favre with Chris Havel

This autobiography of Brett Favre is heartwarming. When you read on what he has gone through in his life and the challenges he has faced, it’s just unreal how badass of a football player he is. He’s played sick, hurt, cold, hot. He’s incredible. My biggest role model in life. I would highly recommend this book.

Reviewer: Josh

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