Walt Disney Treasures - The Mickey Mouse Club Featuring the Hardy Boys
September 24, 2008
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB’S magical mix of entertainment was so captivating to television’s first generation of children, watching it became a daily ritual. And so the first day of the show’s second season, millions thrilled to the debut of a new adventure series, THE HARDY BOYS: THE MYSTERY OF THE APPLEGATE Treasure. All the cliff-hanging suspense unfolds right here, including the entire MICKEY MOUSE CLUB episode that introduced the series. Plus, you’ll get clued in to the truth behind the novels’ author Franklin W. Dixon, and you’ll witness the reunion of Tim Considine (Frank Hardy) and Tommy Kirk (Joe Hardy) at the scene of the crime — Stage 2 at the Disney Studio.
Customer Review: My Favorite of the MMC Serials
Disney’s “The Hardy Boys”: “The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure” (1956) is based on Franklin W. Dixon’s (aka Edward Stratemeyer) “The Tower Treasure”- the first of many “Hardy Boys” books. It was the first of two “Hardy Boy” serials produced by Disney for its “Mickey Mouse Club” show; which was broadcast from 5PM-6PM each weekday. The one-hour show was broken into four segments with this sort of serial taking up one of these 15-minute segments. The “Spin and Marty” serials were also used for this purpose.
As in the books, Frank (Tim Considine) and Joe (Tommy Kirk) are the teenage sons of Fenton Hardy (Russ Conway), a private detective. Following in their father’s footsteps the two boys are looking for a pirate’s treasure supposedly hidden in the Applegate Mansion in their neighborhood. The series has a cool theme song (see below). Despite the song there are no pieces of eight. They were one ounce Spanish silver coins, worth 8 reales, or half of a gold dubloon.
Frank and Joe are assisted by Joe’s girlfriend Iola (Carole Ann Campbell) and hindered by their Aunt Gertrude who is looking after them while their father is out of town.
The Applegate mansion is a spooky looking house and when the boys finally meet the owner he confirms that there really is a treasure, given to his grandfather by LaFitte the pirate as repayment for when he burned the Applegate plantation. His grandfather hid the treasure and no one has been able to find it since.
The story has gold doubloons and crooks, and Iola gets a lot of scream queen moments. “Applegate’s Treasure” was my personal favorite of all the MMC serials. The only drawback is that it was a rather complex mystery with a lot of misdirection, and having to watch it in a cliffhanger serial format was extremely frustrating. No sooner had they cleared up the suspense from the last episode than something would happen and they would break off- telling you tune in for the next episode. But we were hooked and faithfully tuned in day after day. A lot of family plans were altered during this time so as to not interfere with daily viewing.
Watching it now I was pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the performances by the child actors; especially Campbell and Sands. The serial is definitely several notches above “Spin & Marty” in what was demanded of the cast, and for the most part they come through.
The DVD has some nice special features including a 2006 interview with Considine and Sands in the Disney Studio where the serial was filmed. Also included is the entire (hour-long) MMC episode in which it premiered. It was a Monday, which was “Fun With Music Day”, and Darlene does a lengthy song and dance number with Bobby.
Then again, what do I know? I’m only a child.
“Gold dubloons and pieces of eight, handed down to Applegate? From buccaneers who fought for years for good dubloons and pieces of eight. Handed down in a pirate chest, the gold they sailed for east and west. The treasure bright that made men fight, till none were left to bury the chest. So now the gold and pieces of eight all belong to Applegate. The chest is here but wait…now where are those gold dubloons and pieces of eight?”
Customer Review: The Original MTV!
MOUSE TV! That was great stuff!
I want to say up front that these five stars are for BABY BOOMERS ONLY! And I have a lugubrious, tiresome story to tell in relation to this product so don’t bother reading this review unless you have absolutely nothing to do for awhile and love wasting your time. If you want the answers about the product that you’re buying, scroll down to the last few paragraphs where your product questions will be answered in as much detail as I could garner.
Now, if you think that you’re going to buy this DVD for your children and that they’re going to love it just like you did as a kid, then you’re fooling yourself and out-of-touch with reality. If your kids are 5 or older, where they’re now socializing with peers, “The Hardy Boys” is going to be laughable to them. You should go get them some “Spongebob Squarepants” cartoons if you really want them to be happy and entertained.
And on that note, here’s my story: When my pals and I were seniors at my small rural high school, during the Spring of 1971, we often looked forward to “fun days,” those days where we were given the privilege of goofing off in the name of some purported special activity. Our principal was good for this sort of stuff - he liked seniors a lot for some unknown reason and if he got to feeling magnanimous, he would send a few of us out on some dubious errand, (e.g., washing the driver’s ed car, sodding the football field, etc.), so that we would not have to spend a beautiful sunny afternoon sadly gazing out through a grungy window of some dreary classroom. A good guy, in other words, and a fellow whom we THOUGHT really had his finger on the pulse of our often dubious activities. He was a very solemn and quiet guy and it never occurred to any of us to interpret this to mean that he was either whacked out on Valium, or stupid, or both.
So, one beautifully sunny afternoon, this revered gentleman announced over the loudspeaker system that all students (about 300 of us, all total) would assemble on the bleachers in the gymnasium after lunch for “a very special treat”. I was sure that The Rolling Stones had found my high school and were about to regale us with a free concert! Or, at least maybe Bob Dylan. The world is small when one is young and everything seems possible. So, anyway, when the appointed time arrived, my pals and I grabbed seats right down at the front, on the floor level.
The old boy (no, out of respect for the dead, both then and now, I’m not going to relinquish my principal’s name) had a big smile on his face and you could just tell that he was really pleased with himself, big-time. He strode pompously and proudly to the podium, wiped some imaginary dust from his suit sleeve, and made some semi-humorous comments about recent school sports events and THEN he got down to the meat of it: “Today, I have a great surprise for you all. I’m giving you all the afternoon off so that we can have…. A SOCK HOP!!!”
The assemblage went completely silent for about 10 seconds as the resident school retard, at the behest of our principal, walked over to a cheesy home record player which was sitting on the stage and set the needle to the vinyl. It was worse than I ever could have imagined - The Mills Brothers…. “Glow Worm”.
But I was still befuddled, as were my peers - I turned to a young scoundrel beside me and queried, “What the hell is a [profane expletive deleted] sock hop?!?” He didn’t know either. None of us knew, but we could quickly discern that not one of us were going to like whatever it was so about six of us grabbed a couple of the class bad girls and covertly egressed out the back doors, leaped in to our cars and headed out for the local carry-out, and then for the nearest secluded hilltop to engage in grappling Hillbilly pseudo-love.
Now, I shared that grueling saga with you so, if you’re a Baby Boomer, (or even older), that you will understand why your kids (or grandkids) will probably disrespect you in some heinous manner if you try to force them to watch this great old B&W version of Disney’s Hardy Boys. So, if you want to remain in the high esteem of your spawn, just don’t do it!
Now, here’s what YOU will get out of it, Baby Boomers: This DVD is PURE 1956-57 NOSTALGIA. It’s clean and it’s moral, and cloying, and Eisenhowerish. In the introduction, one of The Hardy Boys even set our minds at ease by assuring us that there were NO MORE PIRATES to worry about - that they were all dead (which, like all the Eisenhower propaganda, was not at all true. Modern-day pirates were, and still are, even more vicious and ruthless than the original ones!). It’s all about as “true” as the name Franklin W. Dixon, the pseudonymish ghostwriters’ sobriquet of the original Hardy Boys series.
But we still love our Hardy Boys. Here are examples of what you will see: ultra-clean streets with no cigarette butts or McDonald’s trash; white picket fences; Aunt Gertrude with an apron; lots of checkered shirts; china and silver table settings for breakfast, no Cheerios box on the table; a thug/scoundrel/bad guy with really nice teeth; “conformity wallpaper” that repeats itself every 3 inches to avoid waste; Fenton Hardy’s perfect gig line; and lots more Ozzie and Harrietish gooey parallels. What you won’t see is any black actors, typical of Disney. But that was true of a lot of period TV shows so I won’t beat him up for that anachronistic omission. But black people aren’t much going to watch this show as a result and I wouldn’t blame them a bit.
The story? There’s a rumor around the Hamlet of Bayport that Old Man Applegate’s family came into a big chest of pirate treasure (gold dubloons!) and that the curmudgeony old devil has it buried somewhere on his vast, spooky, and deteriorating estate. Several ne’er-do-wells are after the booty, including a thief, (a stereotyped IRISH one, of course!), The Hardy Boys, and their female friend, Iola Martin. The boys and Iola set out to unearth this very cozy mystery. Iola is a typical Disney pedaphile’s dream. She (played by Carol Ann Campbell) looks like a mini-fully formed woman, the height of a young girl and with a Munchkin voice. She has supple lips, big dark cow-eyes, long eyelashes, a perfect nose, and a slightly weak chin to emphasize her prospective submissiveness to Alpha-males. The Hardy Boys live with their dad, Fenton Hardy, (the younger Hardy Boy runs outside and actually HUGS his dad when he arrives home from work!) and with their Aunt Gertrude. Why no mom? Because the boys disobey her with some frequency and, in that era, encouraging youths to disobey their moms would not have gone over so good… but an AUNT can be disobeyed to a degree without much social consequence. Anyway, that’s pretty much the entire basis for the story.
There were ultimately only two Hardy Boys stories, parceled out in episodes, on The Mickey Mouse Club; this one and “The Mystery of the Ghost Farm,” which ran later. This entry, “The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure,” aired in 1956-57 over four weeks. There is an introduction plus 19 episodes (each is about 10 minutes). The particular Mickey Mouse Club episode which introduces this Hardy Boys story is included in its entirety, (we get to see Annette Funicello’s chubby little legs!), albeit, you have to bring it up via “features”. There is also a contemporary interview with Tim Considine (who was also in “Spin and Marty”) and Tommy Kirk about the series. Finally, this two-disc set additionally includes a “photo gallery” and some photos of Hardy Boys memorabilia. Disney has grossly over-packaged the DVDs in a regular plastic case which is housed within a metal, pop-apart case, making it inconvenient for storing on your DVD shelf. I recommend throwing away the tin case. This is a LIMITED EDITION (a nasty Disney marketing trick) and so 65,000 of these DVD packages are being issued for now. So if you MUST have one, you’d better go ahead and order it before the scalpers gain control of the pricing. The package also includes a cardboard mini-cover from a Dell Hardy Boys comic book and an informational booklet which mostly promotes other Disney DVDs.
The crystal clear black-and-white image is full-screen and all the opening sequences (episode openings) were snagged from the movie “Treasure Island”. Almost ALL of this series was shot inside of Disney’s Studio #2 at Burbank, California. This is affirmed when you see Fenton Hardy enter his home and his shadow is cast against the face of the house (away from the viewer) while the shadow from the picket fence is cast upon the sidewalk in front of the house, (toward the viewer) in the opposite direction! You’ll get pretty sick of hearing the “Gold Dubloons” introductory song, sung ad nauseum by the same guy who did the voice of Tony the Tiger. Each of the 19 episodes offers this introduction with full credits also being scrolled each time.
Yes, I’m poking a little fun here at Disney’s expense and someone is going to get mad at me and comment, “I showed this film to my kids and they LOVED it, you idiot!!!” Well, maybe, if you live in an Iowa farm hamlet where they still have a drug store on the town square that serves root beer floats and hot Dr. Pepper with a lemon slice *.* Anyway, once you get past the Disney packaging fluff, this is a very nice presentation that anyone who fervently watched this series when it originally aired will love. If you have any more questions about the product, just pose them in “comments” (below), and I’ll try to field your queries.
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W.A.S.P. - The Sting: Live at the Key Club LA
September 24, 2008
STING,THE - LIVE AT THE KEY CLUB L.A. (WASP)
Customer Review: Outragous Shock Rock
Ever wonder why W.A.S.P. was so controversial? Check this DVD and you’ll see why! From the opener, Helldorado, this is a solid concert performance with a good live set list. Such classics as: Chainsaw Charlie, Wild Child, Animal, The Real Me, I Wanna Be Somebody, only the creepy stage show this time around is perfectly matched with the energy of the offensive songs. See Black Lawless shoot a cod piece and drink blood as the band prances around stage like it was an 80s heavy metal party only updated into the 80s updated for the year 20000. It’s so offensive you can’t help appreciate it as high art as they put a lot of money intgo this tour and live stage show. People giving bad reviews of W.A.S.P. are fans of sell outs like Inside the Electric Circus and about half of The Headless Children. Don’t listen to those people. They don’t know what they were talking about. W.A.S.P. finally recovered from sellouts like Inside the Electric Circus with this DVD and live CD which I thought great when I found it at the local store. This DVD is totally killer, don’t miss W.A.S.P.’s return to form as gory shock rockers. Buy from here…
The Saddle Club, Vol. 2: Storm at Pine Hollow
September 24, 2008
Lisa takes a beautiful, but violent, foster horse named Storm to be rehabilitated at Pine Hollow. Storm has been abused and, having not responded to previous training, is scheduled to be put down. Stevie and Carol notice that Drew seems more than preoccupied with Pine Hollow operations, but are even more concerned that Lisa is heading for an emotional fall if efforts to re-train Storm are unsuccessful. When Stevie & Carol are cleaning up Drew’s office they discover the source of his concern: bank loans are due and Pine Hollow is in deep financial straits. With the banker demanding payment, Red decides to sell the surrounding land and riding trails. The Saddle Club girls must help save Pine Hollow and the magnificent horse, Storm.
- Based on a bestselling book series by Bonnie Bryant
- One of the most successful PBS launches ever! Buy from here…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Today Show Book Club #13)
September 24, 2008
Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order, and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher’s mind.
And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.
“Mark Haddon’s portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy.”
IAN McEWAN, AUTHOR OF ATONEMENT AND AMSTERDAM
“I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon’s funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won’t want to lend yours out.”
ARTHUR GOLDEN, AUTHOR OF MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
“The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it’s a lot of fun to read.”
MYLA GOLDBERG, AUTHOR OF BEE SEASON
Customer Review: autism
A wonderfully written book. Very poingnent It gives a lot of insight to a child with a disability.
Everyone should read this.
Customer Review: A Fun Read!
I read this book years ago, and I have purchased many copies since then as gifts for others. I am an avid reader, but I have never read a book that was narrated in such a fresh and creative way. I give this book five stars, but I cannot say the same for Haddon’s other books… in fact, I don’t think I would even give “A Spot of Bother” ONE star. That’s okay though, because I am glad that Haddon was able to capture my interest with “the curious incident”! Buy from here…
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
September 24, 2008
A scientist is driving around with his gorgeous girlfriend and everything’s hunky-dory until he wrecks the car and her head goes flying off. Not to be discouraged, he wraps the decapitated noggin in his jacket and scurries off to his lab, where he keeps the poor woman’s head alive in a developing tray with some coils and tubes running in and out of it. With his girlfriend’s still-conscious cabeza back at the lab, the good doctor drives around shopping for bodies, ogling women who might make likely candidates for reattaching the head. Finally he finds a model with a gorgeous bod (and leopard print bikini), but a scarred face. He convinces the young woman that he can fix her looks with plastic surgery and convinces her to go back to the lab. Meanwhile, his girlfriend-head (silenced by a strip of duct tape over her mouth) has developed telepathy and a nasty grudge. This movie used to regularly leave late-night TV audiences aghast and scare the bejabbers out of the young’uns. Decades later, it’s an indispensable trash classic, complete with a catfight, a pinhead monster, a deformed assistant, and even a spatter of gore. Make no mistake; this incredible, sleazy gem is a must-see for any self-respecting fans of camp cinema. They just don’t come any better, and they definitely don’t make ‘em like that anymore. –Jerry Renshaw
Customer Review: Sometimes Unintentionally Funny
The plot to this movie sounds humorous, and it kind of all goes downhill from there. However, this movie has some redeeming moments.
Dr. Bill Cortner (a fixture on television for four decades) has a great life. He has a fast car, a thriving medical practice and hot girl friend Jan Compton (Virginia Leith, whose career went downhill quickly after this movie - perhaps she should have quit while she was a head, or before she was one). How quickly life can turn tragic in horror movies, both for the actors and for the audience. While driving his fast car with his girlfriend - neither of whom was wearing a seatbelt (it was the early 60’s) - Dr. Cortner loses control of his car and his girlfriend dies.
As many fans of horror and science fiction films know, there are many degrees of dead. In this movie, Dr. Cortner has a process for sustaining life in a head, which he uses on his girlfriend while seeking a new body for her.
This movie degenerates rapidly from here. Dr. Cortner begins visiting sleazy bars and tracking down beautiful women to find a suitable body for his girlfriend. The seeking of the body seemed to be an excuse for showing scenes which might have been risqué in 1962, but are now often tedious. Other than seeing what people thought was risqué in 1962, these scenes add little to the movie.
While Dr. Cortner is out gawking at bodies, Jan in the Pan is talking with the Thing in the Closet (I know, I usually explain stuff like this, but maybe you should find out more about this one yourself). Jan is having psychotic episodes (who wouldn’t, being a head in a pan that looks suitable for doing oil changes?) and developing a rapport with the Thing in the Closet. You know that no good will come of this.
Before I forget I have to mention Dr. Cortner’s assistant with the shriveled hand. The hand looks like something I would have created with stuff you find around the house. I could see why his assistant was upset with his hand; even Frankenstein’s monster had a better hand, even if it did come from a dead guy.
This movie probably made rounds as the third feature at drive-ins in the early 60’s. This movie has appeared on television, though with the supposedly risqué elements and the violence partially removed. This movie is one of those that you either find hilarious, particularly if you are a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, or you thought it was tedious, awful and campy.
In spite of the campy moments in this film, Jan in the Pan was done reasonably well. I also thought the idea of the Thing in the Closet was interesting, though overdone. I also wish Jan in the Pan would have talked less. Jan babbled on and on in every scene in which she was awake, and her idea of a mental bond with the thing in the closet was just her running her mouth. The Thing in the Closet had good ears, and probably wished it didn’t.
You should be able to figure out whether this one should make your play list.
Good luck!
Customer Review: Horror Classic
I saw this movie on late night TV when I was around eight years old. I loved it then and I love it now.
I don’t know what kind of effects they used on the womans voice (post decapitation) but it still creeps me out when ever she speaks.
I would have given it three stars for the battling voluptuous strippers scene alone. But all in all it’s a great low budjet horror film. I still find the talking head to be quite profound in her enlightened view of the world (once again, post decapitation). Buy from here…
Graceland (Today Show Pick January 2005)
September 22, 2008
“A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.”–T. Coraghessan BoyleThe sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Nuanced, lyrical, and pitch perfect, this is a remarkable story of a son and his father, and an examination of postcolonial Nigeria, where the trappings of American culture reign supreme.
Customer Review: Coming of age in Nigeria
This is a powerful coming-of-age novel, spanning the life of Elvis Oke from age 5 to age 16. Elvis is an Igbo boy from Akikpo, Nigeria who moves with his father to Lagos in 1981 after his father’s bankruptcy and his mother’s death from cancer. Nigeria is in turmoil after the tragedy of the Biafran war and a series of brutal dictators. Elvis lives in the slums reading Rilke and dreaming of becoming a dancer (he’s already a creditable Elvis Presley impersonator). The distance Elvis travels to become a man is far greater than the 800 miles between Akikpo and Lagos: it’s the distance between his largely traditional culture with its rhythms of the soil and the rain and the urban ghetto lifestyle he confronts in Lagos.
Lagos has everything and nothing for Elvis. He watches his father disappear into alcoholism. He is ignored and even starved by his father’s live-in lover. He tries legal and illegal employment. But above all we see the chaos that is Lagos under one dictatorship after another. The police brutalize the citizenry. The government bulldozes the slums, crushing all underfoot. There is even a frightful trade in human organs. And through it all there is music: African music, western music, eastern music, Hound Dog.
How can a sensitive 16-year old find his way amid all this disorder? Where can he find guidance? Despite the harsh realities Elvis faces this book gives us a gentle, even poetic, portrait of a sensitive young man in an intolerable situation. I found it deeply moving and highly readable. Highly recommended.
Customer Review: A Master Storyteller - A Masterful Rendering
Chris Abani ranks right up there with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka in my book. He peels away the glossy shell of life and dives right into the soft underbelly where life and death compete side by side.
Graceland took my breath away with its vivid rendering of Lagos and Nigeria, it’s compassionate protagonist, and its heartfelt stuggle to do more than merely survive. Abani writes with such passion and insight that I was easily swept away with every sentence.
I used to work in Nigeria, and it all came rushing back to me with this book - the sights, the sounds, the smells, the pace . . . it’s all there. Raucous music mingling with car horns. Burning tires overpowering the barbeque chicken. Palm wine and beer. Overfilled jitneys. Waterlogged slums. Bar Beach Market.
I have read this book twice already and am still not tired of it. In addition, I’ve read his poetry in “Daphne’s Lot” and “Kalakuta Republic” and found them to be as melodic and memorable as “Graceland.”
I definitely recommend that you buy and read this book. It will earn a place in your heart and your top ten fiction list.
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Londons Times Religion Heaven Hell Cartoons - Ancient Book-Of-The-Month Clubs - Trivets
September 22, 2008
Ancient Book-Of-The-Month Clubs Trivet is measuring 8w x 8h x .75d. Made of solid wood with padding on back that protects your furniture. Framed trivet comes with 6w x 6h ceramic gloss tile attached to the wood frame. Buy from here…
Jessi & Stolen Secrets
September 22, 2008
Customer Review: Jessi Ramsey: Baby-Sitter by Day, Detective by Night
Hey there everyone!! Lauren here. How are you? Good I hope. I love this movie!! It is one of my favorite BSC Movies next to “Stacey’s Big Break” and “Baby-Sitter’s Special Christmas”!!
In “Jessi and the Mystery of the Stolen Secrets”, Jessi is thrilled when Matt Braddock, a kid who is hearing impaired, learns how to read lips. But suddenly, rumors and secrets are being spilled about everyone from Charlotte Johanssen to Jackie Rodowsky! In order to figure out what’s going on, the BSC recreate their sitting jobs and what they were doing with the kids they sat for, hoping it will help them solve the mystery. What they find out is really amazing!!! I’m not going to give away the ending, but let’s just say someone learns a valuable lesson about repeating what they’ve “overheard”. Can the members of the BSC figure out what’s going on before they lose the trust of everyone they care about?
This movie is really cool and very heart warming. I like it because it shows a lot of Stacey and Charlotte, who are two of my favorite characters!!
I recommend this movie for anyone who likes the books and wants to watch a memorable book series come to life!!
Lauren
Customer Review: Great Baby Sitters’ Club Movie!
I liked this movie because it was interesting when the baby sitters spied on people. The actors really bring the book’s characters to life in a fun way. If you like the Baby Sitters’ Club books you’ll love this movie. Buy from here…
Mary
September 22, 2008
After a three-year break from studio releases, the queen of hip-hop soul returns with her fourth. From the Fulfillingness’ First Finale-style groove of the opening “All That I Can Say” to the replayed “Bennie and the Jets” sample on “Deep Inside,” these tracks are perfect matches for Blige’s update of classic R&B values. –Rickey Wright
Customer Review: Average At Best
I know I’m probably gonna get blasted for saying this but I just don’t get all the hype about Mary J. Blige. I’m sorry, but being “street” and “ghetto-fabulous” don’t equal talent. Her vocal range is limited and on the majority of her songs she sings in one pitch. I put her in the category of a talk-singer. She’s not really singing in the true sense of the word. I don’t think her voice is horrible but its definitely not great either. I think people like her more for her lyrical content than her actual talent. She’s very relateable if you’re into that kind of stuff and I have nothing against Miss Blige as a person. I get the feeling she’s a wonderful human being. I bought her debut album - 411, which to be fair to Miss Blige was a descent album. But since then I haven’t heard anything to make me wanna rush out and buy any of her material. Sorry folks, we’re just gonna have to agree to disagree on her. Mary J Blige is a wonderful person but an average singer.
Customer Review: oh mary mary mary!
Simply one word a “CLASSIC”. My favorite album of all time. Any woman who has been in love and has lost it can relate to this album. Buy from here…
ArtisanStreet’s Blue & White Purse: Children Playing. Kids Play Ball on Blue Background Combined with Geometric Pattern. Red Handles and Red Button Closure Complete the Tote. Handcrafted, One of a Kind.
September 22, 2008
An artistic blend of function and fashion. The image of children playing ball on a blue background is combined with a geometric pattern in blues and white. Both the red handles and the red button closure pick up the reds in the fabric. The lining has a floral print with blue, white and yellow and the pocket is the same geometric pattern as on the front. This charming accent piece goes great with casual clothing but goes especially well with jeans. Price includes free ground shipping within the continental United States. Buy from here…
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