Tobacco Collecting

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Item arrived on time. Not the orginal "English Breakfast" that I have on tape. It's ok. Not as enjoyable.

This may be billed for brunch, but I believe it is a lovely compilation of cheerful, classic music. I would not limit this to Sunday Brunch for sure!

Like the other Sunday Brunch CD, I located excellent reissued recordings of Scarlatti's 'Good Humored Ladies'. Both Sunday Brunch CDs are worth purchasing. They contain high quality recordings of familiar classical music.

The other reviews describe the music fairly - these are generally pleasant, familiar chamber favorites, well played in a quality recording. Played low, it's perfect background music for Sunday brunch, weekday lunch, or any venue where the conversation (and gossip) takes center stage over the food. The only thing I'd add to this recording is some muted sounds of silverware on plates, coffee being poured, and catty remarks. Just kidding. But...the real attraction for this CD is the liner notes...written by the now-notorious Martha Stewart! ("Brunch is fast becoming America's favorite informal way to entertain family and friends.") Along with a suggested menu, including three recipes! These are: Pecan Waffles With Maple Butter Red Caviar and Sour Cream Omelettes Sticky Buns Well! This is certainly something that other classical recordings can't claim! Furtwangler or von Karajan never thought of *this*! Zubin Mehta, eat your heart out, if you will pardon the expression! The music is fine. In fact, Tommasini's music from The Good Humored Ladies can be enjoyed guilt-free, secure in the knowledge that "The batter will keep for about 2 days if stored in an air-tight container in the refrigerator." Further comment seems superfluous. For the entertainer, it absolutely lives up to its billing. For the classical music aficionado, it's fine...if I could just stop thinking about kneading the dough for the sticky buns until it's smooth and satiny. Four stars.

I find this recording to be quite enjoyable. I find it is well suited for use when company comes for dinner. It sounds very nice when played in the background, as it adds a dimension to a wide variety of gatherings. Don't let the album's title fool you! It is versitile. Don't use it just for brunch! Try it any time of day. The collection is exquisite and the compilation maintains the listener's interest. This CD should be a part of everyone's collection!

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This is a sublime and joyous recording. Benita Valente's voice is exquisite and her interpretations move the soul. To add to the pleasure of this album are fellow artists Richard Goode, Lydia Artymiw, David Effron, and Alexander Schneider. My favorite track is Mozart's "Vorrei Spiegarvi o Dio!" Herr Mozart would have plotzed with pleasure. I also loved Shubert's "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen" performed at the Marlboro Music Festival with Rudolf Serkin, piano, and Harold Wright, clarinet. It has to be the best recording ever of that work. Delicious and pure delight. Bridge Records provides the increasingly rare production quality that allows Benita Valente's artistry to shine with absolute purity. Bravo Bridge! I hope you win another Grammy with this one. I went on line and ordered two more CD's as gifts today.

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Standard Hollywood buddy movie, the plot is "Borrowed" from Butch and Sundance - With Hollywood and lose remakes, The more far-fetched the better, not too many movies of the era stretch as far as this one does. Don't get me wrong it is a fun movie. Completely overboard action sequences, cheese and camp humor galore. It pays homage to every western and/or action flick ever made. The plot -- Two biking buddies team up to help an old friend save his nightclub from a banker who wants to tear down thier beloved bar and build a high-rise. After a botched robbery of the banker money / which turns out to be drugs the two friends are repeatedly confronted and hounded by the banker's henchmen. The numerous confrontations result in explosions, fights, and gunfire.

Great biker Film, Dvd, Movie. How ever you watch it. I love that movie.

I saw this movie when it first came out,at that time i was 8 years old at most and i loved it.Now even after 18 years i still can't forget it.Which i can't say about a lot of movies even made today. It has everything you may want in the normal action flick.Outlaws riding motorcycles and drinking beer you would come to love.Bad guys with automatic guns and bulletproof trench coats (fun).On top of all that add a plot about new unheard of drug and you have yourself a typical yet very very entertaining movie. Normal (standard) action flicks are made for entertainment so do not expect amazing story that fits thrillers or good drama movies because that is totally different then action based entertainment flicks. Plus as many have said before Mickey Rourke does great in this movie and fill Harley's role perfectly.I always liked him as an action flick actor and am sad for things that happened to him during his career.He is very under-rated actor and some may hate me for this but comparing him to Clive Owen he is much more entertaining to watch. Movies are all about entertainment and once you are done watching a movie and you feel unfulfilled then it simply was not that good of a movie.

this movie was here in a couple of days and i love it. great people to deal with.

"Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" was a buddy movie, with Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, that is kind of an homage to -- or a parody of "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid." It is set in the not-too-distant but still improbable future; but the main difference is that while BC & the SDK was hugely popular, and a box office smash; HD & the MM was a huge flop, and deservedly so. If you go into it expecting it to be bad, you won't be disappointed. Half the fun is just speculating how it all went so horribly awry. Was the naming of most of the characters after brand name products an attempt to be cute, or blatant product placement? Who do HD & the MM think they are? ----------------- Alexander: Judging from the data we gathered, they're dilettantes. ======================= Watch for the least successful Baldwin brother, the one they don't like to talk about, Daniel Baldwin, as Alexander, enforcer for the bad guys. He and two others are all dressed in full length black leather bullet proof jackets that make them look like Catholic Priests of Death. As they advance slowly but relentlessly spewing bullets from their machine guns you have to wonder why they don't just shoot them in the head. And they do. But by that time, you are hoping that they'll shoot us all in the head, and be done with it. ------------------------------ Alexander: You boys are good... for dilettantes. =================================== Though it tries to be like "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid," for instance, the scene when they are cornered and have to dive from a great height to escape, it is also like Patrick Swayze's "Road House." They are trying to save their friend's bar from the rich and corrupt. 'Butch' is a classic film, and 'R. House' is so bad it's good, but HD & the MM is just plain bad. M-I-C this film only if it's a choice between watching it and being pounded on the forehead with a ball-peen hammer. K-E-Y because it's lame. R-O-U-R-K. E. Mickey Rourke! Donald Johnson. Mickey Rourke! Donald Johnson. Forever let us hold our expectations low, low, low, low... ------------------- Harley Davidson: It's better to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool. ========================== I wouldn't be too sure of that, Mickey. In 2003 Mickey Rourke was Edmund in Masked And Anonymous. This star-studded yet obscure film attracted major stars for the chance to be in a movie with Bob Dylan, who played an enigmatic singer known as Jake Fate. Rourke's Edmund was the dictator of what was left of America after war and civil turbulence left it looking more like a banana republic. He has a small but pivotal role. The film was either panned or praised depending on how the particular critic felt about Dylan. Mickey Rourke was The Cook in another independent film from 2002 called Spun (Unrated Version). The Cook falls somewhere in between Harley Davidson and The Wrestler as a character. The Cook, like Harley Davidson, would NEVER have received an Oscar nomination. What did The Cook cook? Well, it certainly wasn't food. Those were very Strange Days in 1995 when Kelly Hu was Anchor Woman; and Tom Sizemore was Max Peltier. In HD & the MM, Hu was Suzie and Sizemore was Chance Wilder. In 1994 Chelsea Field was a Screen-Test Actress in a little film called I'll Do Anything. Makes you wonder how she was cast as Virginia Slim in HD & the MM. Not that she is a bad actress or anything. She is certainly not the worst. Tia Carrere was Cassandra in 1992's Wayne's World. Look for her as Kimiko in HD & the MM. In 1991 Kelly Hu (as Kelly Ann Hu) was Dorothy in Oliver Stone's movie about The Doors (Special Edition); with singer Jim Morrison played by Val Kilmer. Surrender, Dorothy. Hu was also in Strange Days, which is the title track of an album by The Doors. I'm not saying it's ironic -- just a little bit strange. Oliver Stone cast Daniel Baldwin as Vet #1 in the Democratic Convention scene; and Tom Sizemore was a Vet in the Villa Dulce scene in Born on the Fourth of July. Daniel Baldwin considers himself the troublemaker of the Baldwin brothers, with numerous stints in rehab; and Sizemore has seen his share of trouble, too. HD & the MM was like a troublemakers reunion. 1987's Barfly featured Mickey Rourke as Henry Chinaski, a nom de plume for writer Charles Bukowski. Bukowski approved of Rourke's portrayal, though he opposed it at first. He thought that Mickey was too good looking, but when he saw how willing he was to "ugly up" for it, he changed his tune. Charles Bukowski even appeared in Barfly in a cameo role. Faye Dunnaway played Wanda, another barfly -- crazy but still quite a looker. A Boy & His Dog was a quirky sci fi flick shot in 1975. It was kind of like a Mad Max movie, but instead of Mel you get Don Johnson as Vic, who carries on conversations with his much more intelligent dog telepathically. The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart from 1970 was a counter culture romp where Don Johnson was Stanley Sweetheart. Out of print, or never came out on video, let alone DVD. You had to be there in 1970 to remember how it was, and if you were there in 1970, then you don't remember. Much of anything. If you want to see Mickey Rourke a a detective in the Big Easy in a movie that got Lisa Bonet in trouble with Cos, check out Angel Heart. You'll have an epiphany. ----------------- Harley Davidson: Looks like you jumped on the wrong horse there cowboy! In case you didn't notice, you're the only cowboy in this place. Big Indian: He ain't a cowboy, he's more like a pretty boy. ==============================

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Standard Hollywood buddy movie, the plot is "Borrowed" from Butch and Sundance - With Hollywood and lose remakes, The more far-fetched the better, not too many movies of the era stretch as far as this one does. Don't get me wrong it is a fun movie. Completely overboard action sequences, cheese and camp humor galore. It pays homage to every western and/or action flick ever made. The plot -- Two biking buddies team up to help an old friend save his nightclub from a banker who wants to tear down thier beloved bar and build a high-rise. After a botched robbery of the banker money / which turns out to be drugs the two friends are repeatedly confronted and hounded by the banker's henchmen. The numerous confrontations result in explosions, fights, and gunfire.

Great biker Film, Dvd, Movie. How ever you watch it. I love that movie.

I saw this movie when it first came out,at that time i was 8 years old at most and i loved it.Now even after 18 years i still can't forget it.Which i can't say about a lot of movies even made today. It has everything you may want in the normal action flick.Outlaws riding motorcycles and drinking beer you would come to love.Bad guys with automatic guns and bulletproof trench coats (fun).On top of all that add a plot about new unheard of drug and you have yourself a typical yet very very entertaining movie. Normal (standard) action flicks are made for entertainment so do not expect amazing story that fits thrillers or good drama movies because that is totally different then action based entertainment flicks. Plus as many have said before Mickey Rourke does great in this movie and fill Harley's role perfectly.I always liked him as an action flick actor and am sad for things that happened to him during his career.He is very under-rated actor and some may hate me for this but comparing him to Clive Owen he is much more entertaining to watch. Movies are all about entertainment and once you are done watching a movie and you feel unfulfilled then it simply was not that good of a movie.

this movie was here in a couple of days and i love it. great people to deal with.

"Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" was a buddy movie, with Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, that is kind of an homage to -- or a parody of "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid." It is set in the not-too-distant but still improbable future; but the main difference is that while BC & the SDK was hugely popular, and a box office smash; HD & the MM was a huge flop, and deservedly so. If you go into it expecting it to be bad, you won't be disappointed. Half the fun is just speculating how it all went so horribly awry. Was the naming of most of the characters after brand name products an attempt to be cute, or blatant product placement? Who do HD & the MM think they are? ----------------- Alexander: Judging from the data we gathered, they're dilettantes. ======================= Watch for the least successful Baldwin brother, the one they don't like to talk about, Daniel Baldwin, as Alexander, enforcer for the bad guys. He and two others are all dressed in full length black leather bullet proof jackets that make them look like Catholic Priests of Death. As they advance slowly but relentlessly spewing bullets from their machine guns you have to wonder why they don't just shoot them in the head. And they do. But by that time, you are hoping that they'll shoot us all in the head, and be done with it. ------------------------------ Alexander: You boys are good... for dilettantes. =================================== Though it tries to be like "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid," for instance, the scene when they are cornered and have to dive from a great height to escape, it is also like Patrick Swayze's "Road House." They are trying to save their friend's bar from the rich and corrupt. 'Butch' is a classic film, and 'R. House' is so bad it's good, but HD & the MM is just plain bad. M-I-C this film only if it's a choice between watching it and being pounded on the forehead with a ball-peen hammer. K-E-Y because it's lame. R-O-U-R-K. E. Mickey Rourke! Donald Johnson. Mickey Rourke! Donald Johnson. Forever let us hold our expectations low, low, low, low... ------------------- Harley Davidson: It's better to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool. ========================== I wouldn't be too sure of that, Mickey. In 2003 Mickey Rourke was Edmund in Masked And Anonymous. This star-studded yet obscure film attracted major stars for the chance to be in a movie with Bob Dylan, who played an enigmatic singer known as Jake Fate. Rourke's Edmund was the dictator of what was left of America after war and civil turbulence left it looking more like a banana republic. He has a small but pivotal role. The film was either panned or praised depending on how the particular critic felt about Dylan. Mickey Rourke was The Cook in another independent film from 2002 called Spun (Unrated Version). The Cook falls somewhere in between Harley Davidson and The Wrestler as a character. The Cook, like Harley Davidson, would NEVER have received an Oscar nomination. What did The Cook cook? Well, it certainly wasn't food. Those were very Strange Days in 1995 when Kelly Hu was Anchor Woman; and Tom Sizemore was Max Peltier. In HD & the MM, Hu was Suzie and Sizemore was Chance Wilder. In 1994 Chelsea Field was a Screen-Test Actress in a little film called I'll Do Anything. Makes you wonder how she was cast as Virginia Slim in HD & the MM. Not that she is a bad actress or anything. She is certainly not the worst. Tia Carrere was Cassandra in 1992's Wayne's World. Look for her as Kimiko in HD & the MM. In 1991 Kelly Hu (as Kelly Ann Hu) was Dorothy in Oliver Stone's movie about The Doors (Special Edition); with singer Jim Morrison played by Val Kilmer. Surrender, Dorothy. Hu was also in Strange Days, which is the title track of an album by The Doors. I'm not saying it's ironic -- just a little bit strange. Oliver Stone cast Daniel Baldwin as Vet #1 in the Democratic Convention scene; and Tom Sizemore was a Vet in the Villa Dulce scene in Born on the Fourth of July. Daniel Baldwin considers himself the troublemaker of the Baldwin brothers, with numerous stints in rehab; and Sizemore has seen his share of trouble, too. HD & the MM was like a troublemakers reunion. 1987's Barfly featured Mickey Rourke as Henry Chinaski, a nom de plume for writer Charles Bukowski. Bukowski approved of Rourke's portrayal, though he opposed it at first. He thought that Mickey was too good looking, but when he saw how willing he was to "ugly up" for it, he changed his tune. Charles Bukowski even appeared in Barfly in a cameo role. Faye Dunnaway played Wanda, another barfly -- crazy but still quite a looker. A Boy & His Dog was a quirky sci fi flick shot in 1975. It was kind of like a Mad Max movie, but instead of Mel you get Don Johnson as Vic, who carries on conversations with his much more intelligent dog telepathically. The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart from 1970 was a counter culture romp where Don Johnson was Stanley Sweetheart. Out of print, or never came out on video, let alone DVD. You had to be there in 1970 to remember how it was, and if you were there in 1970, then you don't remember. Much of anything. If you want to see Mickey Rourke a a detective in the Big Easy in a movie that got Lisa Bonet in trouble with Cos, check out Angel Heart. You'll have an epiphany. ----------------- Harley Davidson: Looks like you jumped on the wrong horse there cowboy! In case you didn't notice, you're the only cowboy in this place. Big Indian: He ain't a cowboy, he's more like a pretty boy. ==============================

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This 4 disc set included "The Pope of Greenwich Village","Desperate Hours and 2 lesser films. All played well and were pristine. It's a great value and shipped quickly. Well worth it.

MGM is commemorating its 85th anniversary this year with a large group of star collections. The only problem is, MGM no longer owns its own films made prior to the year 1986. Thus the stars involved in these collections are not the ones you traditionally associate with MGM. Instead, MGM owns the film catalog of United Artists and the Sam Goldwyn Company, and this is where these films are coming from. This is one of the more modern collections in the group featuring Mickey Rourke, who was a long time out of the public eye until his come-back role in "The Wrestler". There he displayed sensitive charm underneath an often battered exterior that first made him a star. Unfortunately, these are not his best films. The Pope of Greenwich Village is probably the best in the group, but the other three are not that great, although Rourke gives a good performance in all of them. Disc 1: Desperate Hours - (1990 - MGM) - Directed by Michael Cimino costarring Anthony Hopkins. Rourke plays a criminal who escapes during his trial along with two of his cohorts. In the course of their escape they take a family hostage that has problems of their own. Disc 2: Pope Of Greenwich Village (1984 - United Artists) - Directed by Stuart Rosenberg costarring Eric Roberts - character study involving a heist the profits of which are to go to betting on what is believed to be a sure-fire winner at the race track. Disc 3 Side A: Prayer for The Dying - (1987 - Sam Goldwyn company) - directed by Mike Hodges costarring Bob Hoskins. A rather overly complicated plot involving two crimes that go wrong with only bad options involved in escaping either of them. Hodges actually wanted his name removed from the direction credits because he was unhappy with the final product. Disc 3 Side B: Prayer for The Dying Disc 4: Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man (1991 - MGM)- Directed and written by Simon Wincer and costarring Don Johnson. The weakest film in the bunch and the one that makes the least sense to me. A bank stands in the way of a man keeping his bar and he and his friend decide to rob the same bank to get the money they need. They make a mistake and wind up with the wrong shipment - one belonging to the mob. The low price and the fact that four discs are being used rather than just two is because this is a repackaging of stock, not new releases.