Anthony Burgess
The Young: Anthony Burgess
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Give My Regards To Broad Street $4.14 Critics were ruthless when Give My Regards to Broad Street was released in 1984, but the passing years have turned it into an offbeat curio from Paul McCartney’s post-Wings era. The ex-Beatle was roundly panned for scripting this empty-headed vanity project, and it still qualifies as a mistake of sorts, dubiously combining new performances of Beatles classics with a few Wings hits and tracks from … |
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Varèse: The Complete Works $24.42 For a composer who is (now) recognizably part of the 20th-century classical canon, the French émigré Edgard Varèse’s output was astoundingly meager. Just 15 compositions from his entire life (he destroyed the compositions from his early years, and was a merciless editor of his own material in general) made it out to the listening world. Varèse was caught in the chasm between the music of yest… |
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Good Rockin’ Tonight – The Legacy of Sun Records $9.99 Sam Phillips’s Sun Records will forever be best known as the label for which Elvis Presley made his timeless first recordings. But Sun earned its legendary status by also recording any number of other blues and rock & roll greats, including Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash. This 112-minute, 2001 documentary from PBS’s American Masters series features plenty of reminiscences by Sun ol… |
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Magic [VHS] $3.00 … |
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Jesus of Nazareth [VHS] $1.75 Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus’ life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn’t skimp on some of the other landmark events of this famous story either. Director Franco Zeffirelli gives more than 12 minutes screen time each to the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Passages of the Bible are quoted v… |
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Cyrano De Bergerac (translation by Anthony Burgess) [VHS] $29.98 … |
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Jesus of Nazareth $6.99 Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus’ life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn’t skimp on some of the other landmark events of this famous story either. Director Franco Zeffirelli gives more than 12 minutes screen time each to the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Passages of the Bible are quoted v… |
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Down Neck $1.99 … |
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Rocky Balboa $2.99 … |
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A Clockwork Orange $18.75 … |
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