Hyde Pierce

Napa Uncorked with DAVID HYDE PIERCE
$19.95
Napa Uncorked is a -CD ( minute) audio travel guide narrated by actor DAVID HYDE PIERCE (Niles Crane on the hit show FRASIER). Its brimming with Napa-wine -related history, mystery and tips about places and tastes and includes a map of the area. Napa Uncorked captures PIERCES sense of humor, wit and flair and his pitch perfect delivery. Also available Napa Sonoma Uncorked with DAVID HYDE PIERCE Box Set ( copy each) ISBN ---X . Napa Uncorked with DAVID HYDE PIERCE Pre-Pack ( copies) ISBN --- . Napa Sonoma Uncorked with DAVID HYDE PIERCE Double Tier Pre-Pack ( copies each) ISBN --- .

Sleepless in Seattle
$7.99
Sleepless in Seattle is a great movie on many levels. It is basically parody on "Love Story" with a few changes. Naturally if you notice the cast you already have half of the formula figured out. But the beauty in this movie is in the details.

A recent widower Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) and his son (Ross Malinger) moves across the country to Seattle to get away from old memories. His kid tells the father's story on a Christmas talk radio show and says that his dad needs a new wife. You hear heartstrings of women listeners twanging and more than a few closes in for the kill.

Star Trek: 30 Years & Beyond [VHS]
$14.95
Counting the WORST episodes of DS9,Voyager or Enterprise combined,this has to be THE WORST of all Star Trek related material in existance,by no means to be compared to the brilliant Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special from five years earlier.This special represents the very worst of what happened to Star Trek after Gene Roddenberry died;the emphasis on a the financial francise results in this whole affair being total self parody.The whole affair is set in an award show format,already a warning sign for trouble and largely functions as a lot of canned jokes,lame parodies and 'First Contact' movie footage all delivered by teleprompter.Aside from a mildly campy "Frasier On Voyager" skit nothing on here is interesting or funny.Some of my opinion could be personal;I rate 1995-96 as one of Star Trek's worst periods creatively;saw the beginning the the creative decline of DS9,a lull in Voyager's and the release of what I believe is the worst Trek movie ever 'First Contact'.Personally while watching this I wanted to throw a rock at the TV.So.....if you are one of those people who hate Star Trek and want see a mean spirited parody this is for your.'30 Years & Beyond' is for the Craig Kilborn loving,Wesley Crusher hating,Dominion War LOVING Star Trek fan of the 90's.It's in the Trek related literature of the period too.So for many positive minded Trekkers such as myself who enjoy Star Trek for it's sense of hope rather then as a financial institution,this will only be a reminder of dark days for Star Trek.

Chain of Fools
$3.99
Until recently, anyone who wanted to see cult heist comedy "Chain of Fools" would have to go to Australia or the Phillippines to find a copy. Now Americans can also get to experience this hilarious, Tarantinoesque little movie, with its oddball characters and screwball story. Just be glad Americans can get it now.

Barber Kresk (Steve Zahn) is a loser -- he isn't good at his job, he's been tossed out of his home, and his wife just dumped him for the marriage counselor (isn't that a breach of professional ethics?). Now he's depressed, and contemplating suicide. And yes, things get worse: a criminal named Avnet (Jeff Goldblum) has stolen three priceless coins, and decided to blackmail Bollingsworth (Tom Wilkinson), his billionaire partner in crime. After Kresk overhears this, he almost gets shot -- and Avnet ends up impaled on a pair of barbers' scissors.

Now Kresk is in a considerably nastier situation, so he steals the gun and the coins. But things take a sharp turn when he hires a hit man named Mikey (Elijah Wood), and discovers that the hit man is only seventeen and emotionally traumatized by his parents' suicide. And that Kresk is falling for the cop/Playboy model Sgt. Meredith Kolko (Salma Hayek), and that his nephew Scottie (Devin Drewitz) has now swallowed the coins. Now Kresk is in over his head, and has to deal with the strange and sometimes dangerous people around him.

"Chain of Fools" is one of those glorious little cult films that takes forever to get the attention it should have -- it languished on the shelf for four years before getting released. Maybe Warner Bros. dawdled because it's hard to classify -- it's not art-house yet not mainstream. But whatever you consider it to be, there are few movies that so perfectly balance out humor and heists the way this one does.

For your information, "Traktor" is not a person. It's seven persons, from Sweden, who have masterminded over three hundred commercials; two of them handle the direction of this film. And besides being good at romance and action, Pontus L���wenhielm and Patrick Von Krusenstjerna proves that they are also outstanding at black comedy. Black comedy is a hard thing to do, since most directors cross the line into grotesque or stupid.

In "Chain of Fools," the line is never crossed -- one particularly hilarious scene has two hit men arguing over who will kill a comatose man, only to have their victim lurch awake, then drop dead, thus dealing with their dilemma. The hit men, with their victim dead, saunter off to watch a musical, now the best of pals. And there's a distinctly Tarantinoesque flavor to the proceedings. For example, Mikey recounts three times how he bumped off a congressman -- the first two portray him as a butt-kicking fighter, but the third tells it how it really happened.

The cast of characters actually is quite quirky, and the actors do a bang-up job of bringing them to life. Steve Zahn is likable and laughable as a down-on-his-luck barber who desperately takes matters into his own hands, and Elijah Wood is equally good as the teenage hit man who cries in front of clients, loves "Cats" and has never actually killed anyone. Salma Hayek gets to play the can't-get-no-respect Kolko, a woman with a body AND a brain, and Orlando Jones has a small but entertaining part as a drag queen.

Fans of dark comedy will adore "Chain of Fools," a wonderfully warped comedy about priceless coins, Playboy bunny detectives, death by scissors, gun-toting teenagers and wild chases through a hospital. Definitely worth a look.