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Eloise At Christmastime $4.98 It’s tinsel and holly and “fa la la lolly” when Eloise lends her unique brand of holiday spirit to this made-for-television movie inspired by Kay Thompson’s book of the same name. Sofia Vassilieva shines as ruckus-raising Eloise, who can simultaneously exasperate and exhilarate the genteel staff of New York’s Plaza hotel. In the days before Christmas, Eloise learns that Rachel (Sara Topham), the d… |
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50 First Dates $6.85 The Cure and a reggae beat certainly make strange bedfellows as, one assumes, do Adam Sandler and a girl with no short-term memory. In that sense, the 50 First Dates soundtrack is a good accompaniment to a fluffy romantic comedy in which one of the main characters is perpetually living in the past. It’s also a fitting follow-up to that other Sandler/Barrymore vehicle, The Wedding Singer. (Take a s… |
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Sex And The City: Music From the Original Motion Picture $5.44 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed…. |
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Tea for Two [VHS] $15.95 Spunky heiress Doris Day cures the blues with Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson and Eve Arden in a sparkling movie version of No, No Nanette. Evergreen songs: “I want to Be Happy,” “Do Do Do,” the title tune. Year: 1950 Director: David Butler Starring: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson… |
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Serial Mom [VHS] $9.74 Director John Waters creates here a wickedly funny–and nasty–comedy starring Kathleen Turner as the ultimate suburbanite: a woman so obsessed with suburban perfection that she kills a neighbor for not separating her recyclables. Hubby Sam Waterston and kids Matthew Lillard and Ricki Lake don’t have a clue that in fact it is squeaky-clean mom who is the killer at large in their Baltimore neighbor… |
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The Goodies – 1970s TV Icon
Growing up in England during the 1970’s one of the funniest and most hilarious comedy shows on the BBC was the “The Goodies” which starred Tim Brooke Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graham Gardner. An early title which was considered for the series was “Narrow Your Mind” and prior to this it had the working title “Super Chaps Three”. The show mixed surreal madness with genius comedy to create one of the funniest shows on British TV.
The Goodies was a ground breaking 1970 British comedy series, not nearly as well-known outside of Great Britain as its contemporary, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. (Some view it as the Beatles to the Python’s Rolling Stones.) Born from the same generation of comic talents that infused British TV in the 1960s and 1970s with such innovative work, The Goodies was far more plot-oriented than Python (it was nominally a Situation Comedy when it premièred), but at the same time it was also far more anarchic and surreal.
The Goodies basic structure revolved around the trio, always short of money, offering themselves for hire — with the tag line “We Do Anything, Anywhere, Any time” — to perform all sorts of ridiculous but generally benevolent tasks. The BBC’s own historical reference for the show describes it as a “live action version of a typical Warner Brothers cartoon”, which is quite accurate, although sidestepping completely much of the thinly veiled social satire the show was inclined towards. Entire episodes were devoted to poking fun at topical subjects as diverse as TV censorship, Mary Whitehouse, Nuclear testing, Saturday Night Fever and Black Puddings.
Central to the show were the exaggerated versions of themselves that the leads played — conservative royalist Tim, twisted Inventor Graeme and Hippy Bill. The intersection of these three personalities generated as much comedy as the increasingly-bizarre situations that they found themselves in. Their trademark was the “Tandem” — a bicycle-built-for-three which they invariably mounted and fell off of once per episode before riding to their next adventure.
Many episodes parodied current events, such as an episode where the entire black population of South Africa emigrates to Great Britain to escape apartheid. As this means that the white South Africans no longer have anyone to exploit and oppress, they introduce a new system called “apart-height”, where short people (Bill and a number of jockeys) are discriminated against.
Other story lines were more abstractly philosophical, such as an episode in which the trio spend Christmas Eve together waiting for the Earth to be blown up by prior arrangement of the world’s governments. The “Christmas Eve” episode titled “Earthanasia” was one of the two episodes which took place entirely in one room. The other episode called, “The End” Where Graeme accidentally had their office encased in an enormous block of concrete.
These episodes were made when the entire location budget for the season had been spent, forcing the trio to come up with a script shot entirely on the set that relied entirely on character interaction. These enclosed episodes often worked particularly well.
The Goodies have won many prizes including A special episode, which was based on the original 1971 Goodies’ – “Kitten Kong” episode, which was called “Kitten Kong: Montreux ‘72 Edition“, and was first broadcast in 1972. The Goodies won the Silver Rose in 1972 for this special episode at the Festival Rose d’or which was held in Montreux, Switzerland.
The Goodies also won the Silver Rose in 1975 at the Festival Rose d’Or for their episode The Movies.
More inclined to British Variety like humour than the Pythons, the Goodies never quite got the respect they deserved — despite the fact that they lasted at least three times as long on the air.
All told 74 episodes from the television series were produced: Series 1–8 — (1970–1980) Which were shown on BBC2. The last Series 9 — (1981–1982) — was made by LWT for ITV.
The series can be found regularly on Australian TV ( Which has continually been shown since the 1970’s) as well as on You Tube. One of their recordings “The Funky Gibbon” has just been re-released as a charity record for Christmas 2010.
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