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All or Nothing at All
Billie Holiday
Polygram Records, 1995
Breathtaking music
+ Late but convincing work from Lady Day
+ fabulous late collection from Billie Holiday
+ Excellent Compilation
+ A Great Collection
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Sega Dreamcast Console
Sega Dreamcast | "Sega of America, Inc."
THE BEST GAMING SYSTEM EVER
+ Dreamcast...
+ Sega last console ;(
+ ahead of it's time, but overshadowed by the PS2.
+ Still Playing it, Still Fun
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Another Country
James Baldwin
Vintage, 1992
Interesting, Intense, Involving, Intelligent, Insightful, etc...
+ Without ?
+ Homosexuality and Interracial relationships in a not so friendly time
+ Sex and race in the American bohemia
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Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett
Bantam Classics, 1984
A towering work of criminal psychology
+ Good, but overrated
+ A masterpiece from cover to cover
+ Crime and Punishment
+ Crime and Punishment ~ Kindle eBook
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While England Sleeps
David Leavitt
Mariner Books, 1995
Sad, yet Truthful
+ How far we've come
+ It really touched my heart
I read this novel in a day and a half because I found that I could not put it down. Brian, to me, seems like an average guy who is a bit shallow and only interested in fast sex. Edward, on the other hand, is more sensitive and committed to their relationship.
Brian has a lot of fears because of ...
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt
DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2002
Woulda been a competent send-up of Thirties Screwball Comedies but kidnapped, sabotaged and deepened by Allen's personal life
+ TYPICAL ALLEN
+ Woody Allen should be an official genre
+ "It's a match made in heaven... by a retarded angel."
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Harlan's Race: A Novel
Patricia Nell Warren
Wildcat Press, 1996
Finally - the sequel !!!!
+ Second in "Front Runner" Trilogy is...
+ Stronger Kick than the original
+ A Nice Follow Up
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Woody Allen's Play it again, Sam
Richard J Anobile
Grosset & Dunlap, 1977
super-classic!
here is another allen masterpiece with a lot of sallinger influence. A MUST for everyone, the movie was great too!
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Nina Simone at the Village Gate
Nina Simone
Collectables, 1993
Classic live performance by one of the jazz world's great singer/pianists.
Recorded in 1961, at the Village Gate, when Nina Simone, at age twenty-eight, was finding great success and popularity through her recordings on Colpix Records, this live performance beautifully recreates the mood and atmosphere of a Nina Simone concert. A performer with talents in many ...
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Motherland
Natalie Merchant
Elektra / Wea, 2001
i know what you tell yourself
+ Beautiful voice
this is just such a perfect album. it's haunting and spare and creepy, like rain pattering against the roof of an abandoned farmhouse where you're waiting out the storm... the darkness and cohesiveness of Motherland lift it way above the (often-brilliant-but-unambitious) stuff she'd been doing up ...
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Love Scenes
Diana Krall
Grp Records, 1997
Diana Krall Creates A Warm Musical Romance
+ A VOICE LIKE NO OTHER...
+ This Album Is SO Smooth...
+ Relaxing to listen to
+ Beautiful!
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Creation: A Novel
Gore Vidal
Vintage, 2002
Simply the Best
+ In The Beginning?
+ Excellent historical novel
This is the best historical fiction novel written by one of the best historical novelists ever.
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Tennis 2K2
Sega Dreamcast | Sega of America, Inc.
The sisters are in it...what more can I say?
+ Great sequel, but original still best
+ Great Game!!
+ Anna Kournikova?
+ 2K2 PLEASURE
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Bullets Over Broadway
John Cusack, Dianne Wiest
Walt Disney Video, 1996
great i love this movie
+ A Wonderal Melodram with two main twists
+ The Great White Way
John Cusack was really great in this. Very great classic movie. I loved it. they were awesome.
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Nina Simone at the Village Gate
Nina Simone
Collectables, 1993
Classic live performance by one of the jazz world's great singer/pianists.
Recorded in 1961, at the Village Gate, when Nina Simone, at age twenty-eight, was finding great success and popularity through her recordings on Colpix Records, this live performance beautifully recreates the mood and atmosphere of a Nina Simone concert. A performer with talents in many ...
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