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"Our Picks" provides reviews of new DVDs, CDs and books that our readers would enjoy.
Tornado Hunter
By Stefan Bechtel with Tim Samaras
Hardcover, 272 pages ($24)
While most people take shelter from a storm, a handful of others try to get as close as possible—especially when it involves the most violent, freakish windstorms on Earth. The United States has more tornadoes than any place in the world, and "tornado hunters" are passionate in their quest to learn more about them. Come along for the windy ride with these wild tales of close encounters with funnel clouds, a look at the men who chase them and an explanation of what makes tornadoes so destructive, deadly...and fascinating.
—Neil Pond, American Profile
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Live at the Meadowlands
Frank Sinatra
CD ($18.98)
One of Ol' Blue Eye's most sought-after live recordings, never commercially available until now, has finally been re-discovered, re-mastered and released by his estate. Taped in 1986 in front of a revved-up "homecoming" crowd inside New Jersey's legendary Meadowlands arena, it's a tuxedo-smooth, jazzy-snazzy swagger through "You Make Me Feel So Young," "New York, New York," "For Once in My Life," and 16 other tunes spanning a career that by then had stretched across four decades—a Sinatra smorgasbord!
—Neil Pond, American Profile
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American Originals
DVD ($99.95)
They're part of a new breed of hero-men whose "extreme," dangerous jobs have made them stars on reality TV. This muscular box practically oozes testosterone with 14 DVDs featuring the entire first seasons of the History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers," "Ax Men" and "Tougher in Alaska," plus eight episodes of "Dangerous Missions," which profiles rescue swimmers, hostage negotiators, U.S Marine Raiders and others who put their lives on the line for the greater good. As the tag line says, America's frontier never closed—it just got tougher.
—Neil Pond, American Profile
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The Norman Lear Collection
DVD ($159.95)
What do "All in the Family," "Good Times," "The Jeffersons," "Maude," "One Day at a Time," "Sanford and Son" and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" have in common? They were all created by legendary producer Norman Lear, whose master's touch broke new prime-time ground with controversial subjects, unforgettable characters and some of TV's most memorable moments of the '70s. This television treasure trove includes all first-season episodes of all seven of those Emmy-winning shows, plus six hours of interviews and featurettes, and the never-released "All in the Family" pilot. Those were the days, indeed.
—Neil Pond, American Profile
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The title says it all. This new re-packaging celebrates the 1969 landmark rock concert with all the hippie hoopla it deserves. In addition to a remastered version of the Oscar-winning three-hour theatrical documentary, it also includes two additional hours of never-released bonus concert footage, an hour of featurettes, and festival souvenir recreations like a 60-page reproduction of "LIFE" magazine's commemorative issue that chronicled the musicians, the mud and all the groovy countercultural merriment. Far out!
—Neil Pond, American Profile
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By Warren Dotz & Masud Husain
Softcover, 176 pages ($16.95)
Colorful and classic advertising characters line this breezy walk down a memory lane of Madison Avenue creations that captured the imagination—and the marketplace—in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Nostalgia buffs and baby boomers will enjoy becoming re-acquainted with such icons as Tony the Tiger, the Dutch Boy, the Orkin Man and hundreds of other lesser-known mascots that put a friendly, goofy or helpful "face" on hamburgers, hot dogs, breakfast cereal, bubble bath, bathroom cleaners and a store-stocked spectrum of other products.
—Neil Pond, American Profile
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DVD (Blu-ray $39.95)
"King of Queens" TV star Kevin James puts another notch in his growing comedy belt as an overzealous security guard who finds himself answering the call to become a hero when a hostage situation develops on his watch. James shines as a one-man slapstick show, and a load of bonus features take you behind the hilarity and into the intricacies of filming inside a real shopping mall. (Rated PG)
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DVD $39.99
A Disney-Pixar collaboration from 1998, this computer-animated comedy by director John ("Toy Story") Lasseter hips up the age-old Aesop fable of the grasshopper and the ant with the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere from TV's "Heroes," Dennis Leary, David Hyde Pierce, Kevin Spacey, Phyllis Diller and Roddy McDowell. Generous special features on this new Blu-ray edition include a making-of documentary, character interviews and a classic Walt Disney theatrical cartoon from 1934.
—Neil Pond, American Profile
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The Tom Houston Orchestra
CD ($14.95)
Fans of big band music and classic country will love this roundup of well-known honky-tonk tunes "dressed to kill" with the full orchestrations of a jazzy, snazzy stage ensemble, a la Glenn Miller, Count Basie or Duke Ellington. Bandleader and clarinet virtuoso Tom Houston leads his first-class, 14-man band of saxophones, trombones, guitar, piano, upright bass and drums in "Crazy," "Faded Love," "I Fall to Pieces" and 17 other elegantly styled, uptown fusions of barroom and concert hall. (Available from tomhoustonorchestra.com)
—Neil Pond, American Profile
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By Tony Bill
Softcover, 216 pages ($8.95)
You'll sound like a real Hollywood insider when you throw around terms like "Doris Day Parking," "brodkin," "honeywagon" and "rough cut"—and actually know what you're talking about! Written by an award-winning producer, this handy-dandy A-to-Z guide also includes descriptions of the jobs behind all those cryptic credits that run at the end of a film, like grip, gaffer, best boy and wrangler. Fun, fact-filled and full of insight into the backstage world of filmmaking, it's a must-have for any movie buff!
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