Tag Archives: Video

My family owns (basically worthless) land in the high desert near Victorville, CA, so I have been to the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum out there. My grandfather was a cowboy and Western buff, and he took me to meet Roy when I was a wee lad – I …

Most discount stores now have DVD sections priced between $5-10. There were over 1100 DVDs released last year with a list price under $10: * Most Wal-Mart stores are now selling older films for as little as $5.88. The selection at one Oceanside, Calif., store included such movies as Hush, …

Citing an undisclosed assault arrest from last October, finalist Corey Clark was disqualified by American Idol: the network said on Monday it was expelling another finalist, Corey Clark, who is facing trial on misdemeanor charges of battery against his sister and resisting arrest. Fox said in a statement that Clark …

Hitachi introduces new new optical disc drive that can record on all types of recordable DVD and CD: The drive is different from some of the multiformat DVD drives that have been announced recently by companies such as Sony because it also handles DVD-RAM discs. These are used in several …

War is different: that’s all I can come up with to justify my internal battle between free speech – the public’s right to know – and my extreme discomfort with the 24-hour barrage of images and verbiage about the war, that, cumulatively, I find depressing and dispiriting. (I will not …

MTV sees itself as far too hip, brimming with too much integrity to allow overt product placement in music videos: In her recent music video, rapper Ms. Jade is swerving on a dark city street to the beat of her song “Ching Ching.” She’s behind the wheel of a sparkling, …

"Like the Kennedys - only without the money!"

David Hardy analyzes Michael Moore’s Bowling For Columbine as a “documentary” per the Academy’s own rules and finds it wanting: The Michael Moore production “Bowling for Columbine” just won the Oscar for best documentary. Unfortunately, it is not a documentary, by the Academy’s own definition. The injustice here is not …

When I was a kid my family would use the holidays as a special time to watch classic movies. For my family, musicals were always the top choice. Something about an engaging story that broke out into song and choreography every ten minutes or so just struck my fancy. Other …

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