By: preme | On: 22 Dec, 2009
Amazon.com essential video
Christmas in Connecticut is a holiday film that plays 365 days of the year. Barbara Stanwyck gives a brilliant, sardonic performance as Elizabeth Lane, a columnist for Smart Housekeeping magazine, whose enticing descriptions of the exquisite meals she prepares for her husband and baby on their bucolic Connecticut farm earns her fame as “America’s Best Cook.” A writer, she is; a cook, she is not. As she types the words, “From my living room window, as I write, the good cedar logs cracking on the fire…” the view is of clothes flapping on the line outside her bachelorette Manhattan apartment. An able supporting cast keeps her lie on life support: her editor, her stuffy and detestable architect suitor, and the wonderful “Uncle” Felix (S.Z. Sakall), an English-garbling Hungarian chef who provides the recipes that fill her column. Cut to Jefferson Jones, a sailor adrift at sea for weeks after his destroyer is torpedoed. Memories of the food desc (more…)
By: preme | On: 03 Nov, 2009
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade K?Appealing watercolor illustrations, spare text, and lift-the-flap surprises make Corduroy’s Halloween a nice laptime selection. Preschoolers will delight in following along as the endearing bear selects the perfect pumpkin; buys decorations, a costume, and treats; and has a Halloween party. There’s lots to see on each page, and while the story doesn’t hold a candle to Freeman’s books, it makes a colorful holiday treat for the youngest patrons.?Denise Furgione, Atlantic County Library, Mays Landing, NJCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
Young readers can follow the latest adventure of the adorable bear created by Don Freeman as he chooses a Halloween costume, joins a window-painting contest, goes trick-or-treating, and bobs for apples. BOMC.
(more…)
By: preme | On: 26 Oct, 2009
From Publishers Weekly
In Corduroy’s Best Halloween Ever! based on Don Freeman’s popular character, illus. by Lisa McCue, the fellow gets ready for a Halloween party. His inventive use of a tablecloth earns him costume kudos and extra treats. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Don Freeman was born in San Diego, and moved to New York City to study art. He began writing and illustrating children’s books in the 1940s, and he is the author and illustrator of the original Corduroy, published in 1968. END
(more…)
By: preme | On: 25 Oct, 2009
Amazon.com Review
It’s refreshing when you find a Batman story that both is epic and successfully explores the core of a resolutely explored character. Taking as its catalyst a sub-plot from the seminal Batman: Year One, the story revolves around murders occurring on national holidays, the victims connected to Mob boss “The Roman.” Dubbed “Holiday,” the killer uses an untraceable handgun and leaves small trinkets at the scene. Plenty of suspects are available, but the truth is something the Dark Knight never suspected. This series scores two major coups: it brilliantly portrays the transfer of Gotham rule to the supervillains and charts the horrific transformation of Harvey Dent from hardened D.A. to the psychotic Two-Face. Both orbit around the sharply portrayed relationship between Dent, Commissioner Gordon, and Batman: a triumvirate of radically different perceptions of Justice. It is always great to see the formative incarnation of Batman, drenched in noir here.Jeph (more…)
By: preme | On: 22 Oct, 2009
Release Date: 23 October 2009 Genre: Action Cast: Tony Jaa, Sorapong Chatree, Sarunyu Wongkrachang Director: Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai Writers: Panna Rittikrai Studio: Magnolia Pictures Plot: A young Thai boxer learns the skills and inner meaning of martial arts