Press Releases: Conference on Asian American historical experience in the historical experience of the South East U.S. South Asia Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in Washington, DC September 29, 2010 MODERATOR: I want to move to Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke. The Vietnam War was the focus of Ambassador Holbrooke earlier this year in public service. He joined the Foreign Service in 1962 and served in Vietnam from …
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Musicals Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection $9.16 Musical Classics 50 Movie MegaPack – Fabulous Dorseys Calendar Girl Sunny Swing Hostess Dixiana Palooka Glorifying the American Girl Check & Double Check Paradise in Harlem Duke is Tops Reet Petite & Gone Killer Diller Delightfully Dangerous Private Buckaroo Stage Door Canteen Career Girl Second Chorus Trocadero People Are Funny Doll Face Great Baggo Dancing Pirate Road Show Hi Diddle Diddle Rock… |
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Juice $3.07 Spike Lee’s longtime cinematographer, Ernest R. Dickerson, made his directorial debut with this violent story about four Harlem teens whose lives are changed when a store robbery goes wrong. The film has been likened to an urban The Wild Bunch, but it is far too artificial for that. With Dickerson’s eye, Juice understandably looks great, but at the end of the day it is only a slightly better versi… |
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Ray (Widescreen Edition) $2.88 Jamie Foxx’s uncannily accurate performance isn’t the only good thing about Ray. Riding high on a wave of Oscar buzz, Foxx proved himself worthy of all the hype by portraying blind R&B legend Ray Charles in a warts-and-all performance that Charles approved shortly before his death in June 2004. Despite a few dramatic embellishments of actual incidents (such as the suggestion that the accidental dr… |
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The Civil War – A Film by Ken Burns (Boxed Set) [VHS] $21.81 The most successful public-television miniseries in American history, the 11-hour Civil War didn’t just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the “Ken Burns approach,” its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically a… |
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Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance [VHS] $14.98 Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s was the scene of a passionate outburst of creativity by African-American visual artists. This documentary tells how black artists triumphed over the prejudice and segregation that kept their work out of mainstream galleries and exhibitions, and recalls the vibrancy of Harlem in the roaring twenties. You’ll view over 130 paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures, a… |
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The Blind Side $5.80 The life story of Baltimore Ravens left tackle Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is told in this stirring drama. Lifted out of the poverty of a Memphis ghetto by his talent on the gridiron, the withdrawn teen finds acceptance and a chance to better himself when he’s taken in by sassy socialite Leigh Anne Touhy (Best Actress Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock) and her loving family while he attends college. Ba… |
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Dance Fitness for Beginners with MaDonna Grimes: African Beat – Latin Heat $4.79 Standard and Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; bonus footage; photo gallery; trailers…. |
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Something the Lord Made $4.19 The genesis of heart surgery is recalled in this powerful true story. In 1940’s Baltimore, Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) attempt to create a procedure that could save the lives of babies born with heart ailments. But when their work is threatened by racism and bureaucracy, the pair struggles to keep their dreams of revolutionizing medicine alive. With… |
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