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Lloyd Eisler
 Brasseur & Eisler: To Catch a Dream $27.95 I don't understand how they demonstrated leadership qualities. What are there leadership qualities? How were they influenced by positive or negative leadership. SO someone e-mail me at amber_tara69@hotmail.com and answer my questions for me please.  Lenya: Her Complete Recordings From 1929-1975 $310.49 This box set on the great Austrian born, German and later Broadway star Lotte Lenya collects almost everything she ever did in front of a microphone. From the first recordings she made of the iconic "Threepenny Opera" ("Die Dreigroshenoper") to the erzatz James Bond theme song "Youngblood", and even her appearance on Dick Cavett (commenting on his attire as "you look like a pimp") where she sang "I'm A Stranger Here Myself" arranged down to a three note range. Besides the 11 CDs with many very rare or unreleased recordings, the box includes a book with extraordinary photographs (particularly the set shot on the docks in postwar Germany, one of which was used for the German "Happy End" LP cover, stunning). Particularly welcome is the score of "Mother Courage" extracted from a television production. Lenya as she depreciated herself had a limited instrument yet always did unforgettable things with it. As a record of her extraordinary role in reviving her late husband's reputation, her part in the great theater of the Weimar republic and her later role in bringing its influences into the work of Kander and Ebb via "Cabaret" and American theater, this is a monumental edition. About the only thing left out (naturally) is her stellar performances in such films as "From Russia With Love", "The Appointment" and "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone". That she ended her career playing a Rolfing therapist treating the backside of Burt Reynolds through unconventional means is a joke she probably enjoyed a lot. Anyone who is completely smitten with "Threepenny" should love this, however steep the price. Note: one of her friends assures me her most Lenya-like performance is on the DVD of the television production of Tennessee Williams' "Ten Blocks on the Camino Real", the first drama PBS ever produced.  Halloween on Ice $9.95 I was disappointed in this CD. I'm a follower of figure skating, having been in competition myself at the time when dinosaurs were still around. But this movie has some tremendous skating, but for the most part the costume and make up of he skaters are so dark that it's really a distraction. And Nancy Kerrigan does too much talking between scenes, and she's not a very good 'public speaker. |
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