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 The Domino Principle/March or Die $14.98 I bought this video because I had recently read the book "The Domino Principle" and wanted to see the movie. As an added bonus, the movie "March Or Die" was included. Both films were enjoyable to watch and I recommend them to anyone interested. Gene Hackman has always been a favorite of mine and he didn't disapoint here.  Stern Pinball CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Pinball Machine $5,999.00 Crime Scene Investigation¢ļ (CSI) Pinball puts you right in the middle of another exciting case! CSI¢ļ Pinball is a full-sized arcade pinball machine that provides non-stop excitement for the entire family. Join the action and work alongside Grissom and Catherine, using a microscope and centrifuge to gain points. Load pinballs into the eyes of a skull to start multiple ball action! Speech from Robert David Hall, who plays Dr. Al Robbins on the Las Vegas television show, tells the player what to shoot for. Dialogue from your favorite characters over eight seasons puts the player right into their favorite show. CSI¢ļ Pinball also features visuals, music, and sound effects from the original CBS hit television show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation¢ļ. CSI¢ļ Pinball includes many exciting pinball features. A mechanical Skull loads pinballs into its eyes, then rises above the playing field, thus releasing the balls and starting multiple ball play. A Microscope on the playing field catches the pinball on a magnet for examination, and releases it into multiple ball play. And a Centrifuge feature spins the ball and throws it back into play. USA Pinball is a division of Stern Pinball, Inc., which is the only pinball manufacturer in the world. The Stern family has been in the pinball business since 1947. USA Pinball is located in Melrose Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago.  The Producers: Profiles in Frustration $32.95 What is a producer exactly? In Hollywood, most people will tell you that the term has various definitions but in Luke Ford's massive exploration -- nearly seventy interviews with film and television producers, some whose name you may know, others who have been relegated to obscurity -- what emerges is a portrait of the producer as artist. Don Phillips' tale of the making of the groundbreaking "small" film "Melvin and Howard" is worth the cover price alone. Did you know that Jack Nicholson and Mike Nichols were nearly attached to the picture? (Phillips didn't want to wait a year for Jack's availability)Elvis Presley was next considered for the role of Melvin Dumar: "Elvis was on his last leg," Phillips tells Ford. "He was fat and jowly and passed out." Elvis agreed, in June 1997, to do the film after he finished his latest concert tour. Six weeks later the legend was dead. On a related note, producer Judd Bernard's anecdote about actress Annette Day -- who starred in only one film, "Double Trouble", a 1967 Elvis Presely vehicle -- was so telling about the capriciousness of show biz and life in general that I adapted the tale into my new play about an obsolete Hollywood producer, "Last Summer at the Marmont." Among the other notable names in the book -- and there are many -- are TV wizard Stephen J. Cannell (God bless "The Rockford Files" and keep it in syndication for many years to come), Jay Bernstein, and a particularly touching interview with the late Edgar J. Scherick, creator of ABC's "Wide World Of Sports." I have known Luke Ford in both a personal and professional capacity for almost seven years now. Often I have been one of his biggest detractors. "The Producers: Profiles in Frustration" is a piece of work that I would never thought an autodidact like Luke capable of, namely a book that is a must-read for anyone contemplating a career in the entertainment industry and, more importantly, the unknowing millions who believe that producers are nothing more or less than Hollywood fat cats with a cigar in one cheek and a bikini-clad babe in their lap. The interviews in this book prove that in the Hollywood food chain, producers are too often overlooked as -- dare I say it? -- fountains of creativity. |
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