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John Adams (HBO Miniseries)
$59.99
This is an amazing series that the whole family needs to watch. Very entertaining but also educational. I learned things that I had either forgotten or never been taught.

A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
$17.95
Bartlett Giamatti's essays provide you with a delightful dimension of the national pastime which you will find in no other source. It reflect's one man's eloquent love of the game before and beyond the hoopla, hype and heavy hand of greed. It is a very refreshing, quick read worthy of your investment of time and a few dollars less than a movie ticket!

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American Splendor (Slip) [VHS]
$26.98
Creating something real, unreal, familiar yet completely original; directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini pulled out all the stops with `American Splendor', one of the most innovative and unforgettable biopics I've ever seen. Ingeniously mixing real life with reel life, `American Splendor' may turn off a few viewers, but for those of you willing to give it some time it will truly open your eyes to the endless possibilities of cinema. With brilliant casting, stunning script work and truly remarkable craftsmanship, `American Splendor' will definitely be an unforgettable cinematic experience.

Who ever thought that comic books could be so influential?

The life of comic book hero Harvey Pekar is told with vivacious tenacity in this multilayered biopic that exposes his human personality as well as his alter ego. With a knack for fleshing out the truth in life, Pekar created something that no one else had even attempted, and in the process he created a following I don't think he even understood. Starting with the conception of his comic and moving forward through his strange marriage and odd social skills, not to mention some inevitable health issues; `American Splendor' never loses its grasp on what makes this film so fresh and whimsical.

Thanks to some inspired casting, this film nails just about every punch.

Let's talk about Paul Giamatti for a minute. I remember in 2004 when `Sideways' was released and everyone started screaming Oscar and talking about how Giamatti's performance was just too good. I remember seeing the film and falling out of my chair (figuratively) because for the first time the hype was correct. He was `that' good. Then the inevitable snub came and it wasn't until the following year when he hammed it up for Ron Howard that he received an Oscar nomination (please note that, while I say `hammed' it up, I am not really insulting his performance, which I enjoyed, but merely stating that sometimes you have to create a caricature for Oscar to pay you any attention). Around that time I started hearing about this film. Personally I hadn't heard anything about it until then, and honestly I didn't see the film until last weekend, but the seed was planted.

This performance, believe it or not, is even BETTER than the one he delivered in `Sideways'.

Capturing this man in all variations of his persona (and brilliantly meshing with the `real' Pekar who appears in the film as well as the animated versions), Giamatti is a full-figured representation of a truly inspired characterization. He understands the lows, the highs and everything in between, completely realizing his characters potential. He's so good that I barely noticed the rest of the cast, even when they were working magic as well (especially Hope Davis, who is criminally underrated in the world of cinema).

As a whole I strongly recommend this film to any fan of the biopic, the human drama, the dramedy, Giamatti or comic books...UGH, I recommend it to everyone since this is really what cinema is all about.