![]() How to Be a Player $9.99 "How To Be a Player" Had me rolling from beginning till the end.. Bernie Mac was Hilarious.. and the story was cute and thorough. Bill Bellamy and Natalie Desselle "his Nosey sister were good as well. I'm gonna keep this review short. BUT BABY!!! Please don't have any soda or food in your mouth when Bernie Mac Walks in right after his wife was creepin with Belamy and says.." Baby I smell somethin stank.. what is it ? and she proclaims she doesn't know what he is talking about.. so he say's it again. "I SMELL SOMETHIN STANK" by then I was already fallin out. Then he says it smells like BO-D-USSY in here .. You will find out what bodussy is and ROTF... It's always entertaining and good for some good laughs. ![]() The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series) $19.98 This is one of my all-time favorite films, a scathing, paced look at inside Hollywood that deciphers the netherworld of studio execs, producers, directors, actors and, most importantly, those over-abused prostitutes of the industry, screenwriters. Tim Robbins is Griffin Mill - smarmy, corporate and slick as cat manure on a vinyl floor. Robert Altman brought in an array of big names to lend this film their aura. Everybody was in it. Buck Henry pitches the best film idea that never happened, "The Post-Graduate", which is the sequel to "The Graduate". Grif is getting poison pen mail and he explores it a little too much, leading him to an art house in Pasadena where he accidentally kills a teed-off scribe, then into the man's ice queen girlfriend. Plot twists and studio politics intersect, and Whoopi Goldberg is insane as the cop who knows Grif got away with murder, which he does. There is no morality, just cold-hearted realpolitik. Do not miss Altman's interview at the end. Like "Sunset Boulevard", this one captivated and irritated this closed industry which still believes its press releases. Robbins is as good as it gets. This is sex and power, the ultimate aphrodisiac. The plot twist that ends it is one of the best ever devised, with Grif and his blackmailer suddenly co-producers "if the price is right..." As Matthew says in the Bible, "what does a man profit if he has the world but loses his soul?" ![]() Trombone Player Wanted $59.95 This DVD set is okay, but overpriced for the amount of information it delivers. Maybe it's just me, having seen Marcus Buckingham on a couple of TV shows, but there wasn't enough info in this to really get my teeth into. Once I've read his book, maybe I'll go back and watch it with different feelings, but it is an expensive tool that didn't really offer enough specific advice, more theory and introduction to his ideas. ![]() Baby Come Back: The Best of Player $9.98 I always loved the song Baby Come Back, and after listening to this CD in it's entirety realized I just love this band!!!! |
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