Editorial Product Review: :Anne Lamott is your run-of-the-mill recovering alcoholic and drug addict, born-again Christian, left-wing liberal, and single mother who just so happens to have written New York Times-bestselling books, including the inspiring writing guide Bird by Bird. Very ordinary. This hour-long video follows Lamott around for a year as she gives readings, raises her son, and participates in church. Topics great and small are covered, from the difficulty in doing anything with her kinky hair and how she became the class clown to her nightly ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:He is the archetype of the leading man. Off-screen, he has embraced challenge and worked hard to leave the world a better place. Paul Newman is justly famed for his good looks and piercing blue eyes, but he has never been just a pretty face. This sweeping BIOGRAPHY; follows the dynamic star in front of the camera, onto the racetrack and in his role as the head of one of the largest charitable organizations in the nation. See rare screen tests, behind-the-scenes footage and ...
Editorial Product Review: :It's hard to make a lively documentary about someone who's been dead so long that everyone who knew him is dead, too. But A&E succeeds by having an actor read excerpts from Poe's stories, poems, and letters, as well as sharing anecdotes that reveal a more intimate side of this macabre genius. In this video, we see Poe the doting husband, who played games in the yard with his young wife and later cared for her during her prolonged battle with tuberculosis; Poe the ...
Editorial Product Review: :Though Shakespeare is heralded as the world's most influential and admired writer, little is known about the man himself. That didn't stop A&E Biography from weaving together a substantial birth (in 1564) to death (in 1616) portrait from spotty documentation, historical accounts, and interpretations of the master's work itself. It won't give away all the video's surprises to reveal here that Shakespeare was born into privilege, started out as an actor, had an unhappy marriage to an older woman--in his will, he specifically left ...
Editorial Product Review: :The legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine blazed across tracks and into America's consciousness before meeting a tragic death in an auto accident at the age of 24. In this tribute to 'Pre,' narrated by writer Ken Kesey, a number of his contemporaries speak movingly of him as an athlete and a person. After setting high school running records in his native Oregon, Prefontaine went on to the University of Oregon, where as a freshman he began to dominate the American track scene and appeared ...
Editorial Product Review: :The legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine blazed across tracks and into America's consciousness before meeting a tragic death in an auto accident at the age of 24. In this tribute to 'Pre,' narrated by writer Ken Kesey, a number of his contemporaries speak movingly of him as an athlete and a person. After setting high school running records in his native Oregon, Prefontaine went on to the University of Oregon, where as a freshman he began to dominate the American track scene and appeared ...
Editorial Product Review: :The legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine blazed across tracks and into America's consciousness before meeting a tragic death in an auto accident at the age of 24. In this tribute to 'Pre,' narrated by writer Ken Kesey, a number of his contemporaries speak movingly of him as an athlete and a person. After setting high school running records in his native Oregon, Prefontaine went on to the University of Oregon, where as a freshman he began to dominate the American track scene and appeared ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:A poor, simple boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, he would change the course of popular music and culture forever. Yet his bizarre personal life would become as legendary as his hit songs. This unique biography traces the private Elvis, from his unusually close boyhood relationship with his mother, through his courtship and marriage to Priscilla, to his strange, nocturnal life at Graceland. Fact-filled and exhaustive, it includes interviews with members of his inner circle, called the Memphis Mafia, and rare home movie footage. It's a ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:His flamboyant lifestyle epitomized the glittering excess of the roaring twenties. His classic stories made him one of the most important American authors of the century. In books like Tender is the Night, and The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the mood and manners of his time. It was a subject he knew well Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda lived a notoriously hedonistic life marked by lavish celebrations and madcap exploits like riding down Fifth avenue on the top of taxicabs and jumping ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:His flamboyant lifestyle epitomized the glittering excess of the roaring twenties. His classic stories made him one of the most important American authors of the century. In books like Tender is the Night, and The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the mood and manners of his time. It was a subject he knew well Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda lived a notoriously hedonistic life marked by lavish celebrations and madcap exploits like riding down Fifth avenue on the top of taxicabs and jumping ...
