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 Young Pecan Golden Sweet Freshly Shelled US # 1 Fancy Pecan Halves * Net Weight 2 pounds (32 oz/907.2G) $12.89 A good buy. Nuts are fresh and tasty. Not all are halves, quite a few broken pieces and even some cracked shells, but overall satisfactory. I will order them again.  Today's Themes for Young Lovers/For Those in Love $13.98 This collection brings together two of Percy Faith's best recordings from the 1960's. By this time he had established his orchestra with female chorus sound that remains very haunting. Yellow Days is a perfect demonstration of this technique, with plaintive singing. I Can Hear the Music offers an opportunity for the chorus to shine up and down its register. Release Me is simply wallowed in, even more so than in Engelbert Humperdinck's hit making vocal of the tune. Mary in the Morning, by contrast, is purely an instrumental. It brings out all the wistfulness of this lovely tune. Windy, by the Association, is one of my all-time favorite songs of the '60's. Faith's rendition will have you whistling it. I Say a Little Prayer, with its bouncy rhythm, is a reminder of how well Faith dealt with Burt Bacharach's songs. This CD is by no means simple easy listening music. It is a glorious evocation of its era.  Today We Live $26.99 I first saw "Today We Live" about 8 years ago (when I was just beginning to discover the wonderful world of Miss Joan Crawford) and I watched it right after "Sadie McKee" (my very favorite movie) and figured that it would be rather similar. After all, Joan made so many pictures for M-G-M during the '30s with very similar plots and storylines, however "Today We Live" is nothing like any of Joan's other pictures. It's a complete original and I mean that in both a good and a not-so-good way. "Today We life," is not one that I'm crazy about at all. I've seen it a few times and each time I have to force myself to finish watching it because it's so boring. Was Joan supposed to have a British accent? I couldn't tell. The story is Joan's signature M-G-M love-triangle formula but it seems like someone left it on the rinse cycle a little too long because everyone's all wet. This is a war-era movie, maybe that's why I don't like it; those movies never worked out too well for Joan. Skip this and go straight to Joan's next picture, "Dancing Lady," one of her very best!! As you probably know by now, this is a DVD-R (not a movie DVD, it's a burned DVD minus R). Warner Bros. Home Video over the next couple of years will be rolling out most (if not all) of Joan's movies from their vaults that have not yet made their way onto home-video. This is great and it's also not so great. First of all, it's obscene how these crooked sellers are charging such exorbitant amounts for these movies. Keep in mind that they are not licensed or authorized to sell these movies as they are not official resellers or distributors. Second, The WB Shop (Warner Bros.' only official e-commerce site) isn't a very good company either. I have purchased from them several times and always had a rather poor experience. I recommend getting the movies on Amazon (directly from Amazon as some of the prices are starting to go down somewhat). And if that is not possible (or if you want to save some money) you can almost always find this on TCM (just do a search on tv-now dot com to find out when Joan's next picture will be on). It's unfortunate that the people who are making all of this money off of Joan's good name are not thinking about the viewers and I am certain that Joan would not be happy about this in the least as she always felt that her movies were for her public. As a fan who owns every single Joan Crawford movie I am always glad to share my collection with everyone because that is exactly what Joan would have wanted. |
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