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OUR FIRST CONTEST!!!!!!!
Our pals at ABC Studios noticed that we just don’t run enough contests around here and generously provided us with two copies of “Eli Stone-The First Season” on DVD to feed the fire and have our first contest. Ok, so now we have the prizes, what hoops will we make you jump through to get them? How about a good old fashioned essay contest? In 50 words or less, tell us why you should win a copy of Eli Stone. Entries must be received by Sept 13 to be considered. Neatness counts. Judgment of the judges is entirely subjective. Every bit of legal mumbo jumbo that ever been written about contests that covers our butts is incorporated by reference whether you’ve ever read it or not. Now start submitting!
DVD SUPPLEMENT
ABC STUDIOS
BROTHERS & SISTERS The Complete Second Season: When Sally Field was about to go zebra with Danny Glover it looked like this sprawling prime time family was about to put the funk in dysfunction, but she chickened out. Maybe if Field was attracted to Ashy Larry instead of Danny Glover, it would have given Calista Flockhart the chance to win an Emmy just for disapproving face making. Beyond that, the Walkers are the feel good family of the airwaves, they make you feel good about your own family. Gay brothers that fall for strays, lousy marriages, bastard children that become part of the scene and might turn out to be not related after all…the sturm and drang just doesn’t quit with this crew, and the writers know how to keep the ladies glued to the set as the weekend winds down on Sunday evening. With the kind of extras that gets fans to shell out for the dvd on board, this is a dandy tv/dvd package specially made for people that automatically think family = high drama.
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SAMANTHA WHO? The Complete First Season: Out of all the reviews that make a point of saying how the show was hurt by the writers strike, this show is the one that probably was hurt the most. Christina Applegate returned to tv and proved that it’s her métier medium and something to be proud of. Moving Kelly Bundy into early middle age and letting her have a Mulligan because of amnesia, Applegate is delightful as a girl about town that keeps running into her past without knowing what to make of it. Taking a slim, hoary premise and breathing real life into it, this is what sitcoms were about when they were in their glory days before they devolved into product to attract eyeballs for advertisers. What can we do but wish Applegate a speedy recovery to bring this show for more laughs and more seasons where she magically makes more of the same into something else.
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PRIVATE PRACTICE Complete First Season Expanded Edition: After the high drama of “Grey’s Anatomy”, it felt like a let down to find Addison Montgomery being all laid back in California and just being an observer to other peoples drama where her worst problem wasn’t much more than being naked in front of an open window. A nicely formatted programmer that falls right inside the evening soap margins, this show could have been about anybody, but the “Grey’s” over hang created a lot of expectations that would have been hard for any show to live up to. You want some doctors in California and good looking middle aged people acting like they’re still in high school? Well then cowgirl, this is just what the doctor ordered.
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PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS GO TO THE MOVIES-Daytona Jones: Alvin never got to be this psycho in the original 50s cartoons. Here we get to find him going over the top in this movie parody trilogy where he gets to play Daytona Jones, the Jokester (he really does trump Heath Ledger) and Robomunk. Simon as the Caped Crusader? Well, Alvin needs to get the meatiest part always, doesn’t he? Delightfully cracked fun for kids of all ages.
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EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS The Third Season: In which we see that Chris Rock is not only one of the funniest cats around, he has great taste in music as evidenced by the use of “Soulful Strut” in the season opener. In much the same way that it’s cool how the Simpsons don’t get any older, here it’s cool to see the kids grow into the parts as they get older in unstoppable, off camera, real life and handle it in the episodes accordingly. In lesser hands, a show like this would have jumped the shark in season two, but season three just finds it getting better as adolescence is freely acknowledged and story lines fall right in line with the times the depicted in real time. If each of these 22 episodes doesn’t convince you that Time Mag is pretty close when the call Rock the funniest man in America, you probably don’t get it why Stewie and Brian are so funny either. Certainly this is the family comedy for the rest of us. Keep it coming.
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Volume 31/Number 312
September 7, 2008
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