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 Porn Star Reality $1.99 Very disappointed. This behind the scenes documentary is nothing more than the rambling home video of an actress with too much time on her hands on a video shoot. A complete lack of structure or editing provides 20 minute uncut segments of hair and makeup, set decorating, shots of the craft services table, shallow interviews and some discussion of the thin plot of the movie they are actually shooting. The beautiful yet ditsy hand held host does appear naked for 5 seconds, the only redeeming quality of this wreck. Two website addresses were plastered across the screen for the first 20 minutes not that there was anything interesting to see. You really couldn't give this flick away.  Madam, Have You Ever Really Been Happy?: An Intimate Journey through Africa and Asia $26.95 A 58-yr-old mother of 5 grown children, a writer, inveterate hiker, traveller, well-educated daughter of a Methodist preacher, Meg Peterson is not simply a skilled travel writer, she is also a gifted observer of the human condition. This is easy, fluent reading at its best. Having reached the point of realizing she can longer live the way she has been, she determines to make a life of her own choosing, not dominated by men. She divorces her alcoholic husband, opts to spend eight months travelling alone through Africa and Asia with only a backpack, passport, travellers' checks and her camera. She can describe the history and breathtaking beauty of the Taj Mahal, and in the next sentence painfully examine with great empathy the lives of the deprived children. That Meg loves people, and is loved in return, is evident in the joy and excitement of meeting new and old friends. She writes of these things in a natural, open, honest manner that made me feel I was accompanying her, watching her develop a new emotional life. A romantic episode in Nepal challenges her resolve, but she holds true to her new ideals. Her personal magnetism and versatility are clear. As one of her acquaintances remarks, "Meg, you are some woman." And this is some book, a real joy. |
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