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TV’s make-believe family band continues its merry misadventures in the re-release of the show’s 1973 season. In between spreadin’ the musical sunshine in these 25 episodes, dreamboat Keith (David Cassidy) struggles to pass his high-school sex-ed class; big-sis Laurie (Susan Dey) falls for a charming young man of the cloth; and the family dresses up in feathery chicken suits to make a TV commercial. Extras include two shortened episodes, or “minisodes,” of two other shows of the era, Charlie’s Angels and Diff’rent Strokes. To quote a Partridge Family song—C’mon, get happy!
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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For almost a century, Vanity Fair has chronicled the rich and famous. This stunning collection of more than 300 large-format color and black-and-white portraits from the magazine make for a star-studded stroll across time with an A-list cast of movie stars, pop tarts, politicians, writers, business titans and others from all walks of celebrity life. Your coffee table will look like a VIP stage just by having Portraits sitting on it.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Kids of all ages will enjoy being “read to” again with this hefty collection of beloved tales, which turns your TV into a cozy story-time alcove full of faithfully animated versions of Where The Wild Things Are, Make Way For Ducklings, Curious George and many more childhood-lit armchair favorites. A read-along option encourages younger kids to follow the printed words, and celebrity narrators, including James Earl Jones, Sara Jessica Parker and Cyndi Lauper, add warmly familiar tones to the timeless tales.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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What are life’s most important lessons? Photographer and filmmaker Zuckerman logged 65,000 miles to pose the question to dozens of well-known people over the age of 65, all of them trailblazers in their respective fields. The result: this landmark coffee-table book of large-format portraits and first-person essays from Nelson Mandella, Henry Kissinger, Billie Jean King, Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Buzz Aldrin and 45 other iconic contributors, plus an accompanying DVD. If you could bottle up the been-there, done-that between these pages, you’d have an elixir for the ages.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Paul Newman’s no longer with us, but his legacy will live forever—and a newly re-mastered DVD release of this gritty 1967 prison drama is a reminder of the many ways he could light up a movie screen with his sky-blue eyes, million-dollar smile and rougish, rascally charm. Extras include commentary by a Newman expert and a new featurette about the making of Cool Hand Luke that explores Newman’s acting technique and the movie’s dynamite cast, which also included George Kennedy, Joe Don Baker, Harry Dean Stanton, Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper and Ralph Waite, who would become TV’s John Walton a few years later.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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More than just a handsome coffee-table book, this “museum in a box” is super-packed with photos, artwork and more than 25 removable archival reproductions—like a Wonder Woman mask and a Justice Society decoder ring from 1942—that unfold the colorful history of the hands-down granddaddy of all comic book companies.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Robert Downey Jr. is terrific as a wealthy munitions supplier who has a change of heart and begins fighting—in a high-tech, impenetrable metal suit—the criminals he inadvertently helped create. Iron Man soared into theaters earlier this summer but was eclipsed at the box office when another crime-buster spread his dark Bat-wings. Here’s a second chance to spend some quality time with a heavy-metal superhero worth his weight in good-guy gold. The nearly four hours’ worth of extras include a seven-part making-of documentary, Iron Man’s comic-book history and additional scenes.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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One of TV’s most unique shows—in which a human and his robot sidekicks provide running comedic commentary to laughably bad B movies—celebrates an anniversary milestone. This special edition includes a collectible figure of the show’s “mascot” robot, Crow, and finds the funny in four otherwise unmemorable chunks of Hollywood cheese about aliens, werewolves, desert mutants and slave-hunting dinosaurs. It’s the next best thing to going to the drive-in with a car full of your wittiest wisecracking buddies!
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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One hundred experts from all walks of life share tips for doing all sorts of things quicker and more efficiently. Billionaire business mogul Richard Branson tells you how to apply for a loan. Oprah Winfrey’s favorite event planner, Colin Cowie, advises on throwing a dinner party. Broadcaster Hannah Storm offers her tips for getting going in the morning. Practical, entertaining and bearing the stamp of authenticity from a wide spectrum of people who certainly know what they’re talking about, this Guide has something for just about everybody.
Neil Pond, American Profile

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This 1987-89 TV series depicted the relationship between Vincent, a noble subterranean “man-beast” (Ron Perlman), and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), the above-ground New York district attorney he loved—and lived to protect. Loosely based on the fairy tale of the same name, it was a big hit with women, who loved the show’s gothic overtones of secret, forbidden and frequently misunderstood romance. This hefty box set brings all 55 episodes together for the first time, along with several bonus features, including 12 video “love letters” from Vincent and an interactive trivia game.
Neil Pond, American Profile

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