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No DVD extras here, only a barrel full of monkey-business jabs, slaps, tweaks, bonks and other slapstick shenanigans from Moe, Larry and Curly at the height of the trio’s crank-out-the-comedy fame. These 23 newly remastered shorts, including such classics as “A-Plumbing We Will Go,” “What’s the Matador?” and “I’ll Never Heil Again,” look better than ever—making every pie fight, eye poke and hair yank a thing of crisp, cartoonish, buffoonish, Stooge-perfect beauty.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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A coffee-table companion to the new three-part PBS American Masters documentary narrated by Clint Eastwood, this treasure trove of photos shines a year-by-year spotlight on one of Hollywood’s greatest moviemaking dynasties. Find out all about the legendary film-family tree that has nurtured Bogie, Brando, James Dean, Doris Day, Rin-Tin-Tin, Superman, Batman, Bonnie and Clyde, Harry Potter, Dirty Harry and thousands of other stars, characters and cinematic milestones over the last 85 years.
—Neil Pond, merican Profile

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Actor Anthony Hopkins will always be known for his memorable role as cannibal Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs. But this 1995 biopic gave him another juicy role in which to sink his teeth. And sink them he did, giving a riveting performance as America’s 37th president in this balanced dramatization by director Oliver Stone of Richard Nixon’s life, influences and troubled times in the Oval Office. An all-star assemblage, including Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, E.G. Marshall, James Woods, David Hyde Pierce and Mary Steenbergen, rounds out the cast, and DVD extras include a Nixon documentary, commentary by Stone and more. (Rated R)
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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The No. 1 show on the TLC network takes you inside the whirling suburban world of an ordinary couple, Jon and Kate Gosselin, raising their toddler septuplets and elementary-age twins, stretching their parenting skills to extremes most of us can only imagine. This collection of 17 full episodes, in which the Gosselins open their lives—and all the drama, laughter, exasperation and child-rearing ingenuity they entail—for the cameras, also includes an hour-long bonus special.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Once up a time, a camera and a pony were usually all it took to get a kid to smile. Saddle up and ride along with this charming collection of more than 200 vintage photos, ranging across nearly 80 years, which depict children alongside or atop ponies in a variety of seasons and scenarios. “Remember,” writes the author, “a pony is a pony, not a small horse. Which is perhaps why we love them so—because they never seem to grow up, and perhaps, if we love them enough, we won’t grow up, either.”
Neil Pond, American Profile

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Originally airing on PBS in the 1980s, this award-winning series swirled a magic wand over dozens of Hollywood’s top actors and brought them aboard for an ambitious, five-year project to bring classic children’s stories to renewed television life. You’ve never seen anything quite like it—Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Susan Sarandon, Melissa Gilbert, Tatum O’Neal, Matthew Broderick and Valerie Bertinelli, to a name just a few, throwing themselves gleefully into the adventures of Rumplestiltskin, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Aladdin and 22 other familiar fables of dashing princes, ravishing maidens, evil witches, wicked stepmothers and other time-honored storybook characters. Bonus features include a 120-page book and a never-aired episode. An all-around, all-star, once-upon-a-time delight!
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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TV’s gloriously dysfunctional workplace hums along hilariously in this collection of 14 episodes from the 2005 season. The Emmy-nominated everyday antics of Steve Carell and a terrific ensemble cast are spiced up with several DVD extras, including more than 20 minutes of flubbed lines and other contagiously comedic screw-ups, deleted scenes, commentary from cast and crew and a roundtable discussion with the show’s cadre of writers.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Blue Oyster Cult? Here. Ted Nugent? Present. Deep Purple? Yo. Let your hair down and unleash your inner rocker with this arena-rumblin’ roundup of 152 heavy-metal hits from Bad Company to Whitesnake, with a who’s who of head-bangers in between. Packaged in a metal “road case,” this deluxe collection includes a bonus DVD documentary on the ’70s, plus another with exclusive unplugged performances by Poison lead singer Bret Michaels. Hard & Heavy is a right-on roll down a monstrously rockin’ road of metal memories.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Tommy Lee Jones is riveting in this newly released “director’s cut” of the acclaimed TV movie from 1982, which depicts the last days of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who insisted on the death penalty rather than face life in prison. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Norman Mailer, it’s a sobering look at a doomed man whose deathwatch became a national media event. No bonus features, but it’s well worth the price to watch Jones’ brilliant performance, a memorable, mid-career notch in one of Hollywood’s most solid acting belts.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Just in time to usher in the third season of the hit NBC series about “ordinary” people with extraordinary, world-changing abilities, this bonus-packed collection includes every exciting season-two episode, commentary by the show’s stars and creative team, interviews, behind-the-scenes documentaries, deleted scenes and more. It’s 8 hours of twists, turns, surprises and extra goodies to whet your prime-time appetite for Heroes’ Sept. 22 return to the airwaves.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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