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Biography: Bono
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Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man $6.99 Leonard Cohen–songwriter, poet, former monk, ladies man, and sharp dresser–receives a near-hagiographical treatment in I’m Your Man, a part concert-part documentary in which his work is interpreted by an array of singers. Cohen tributes are nothing new, what with Jennifer Warnes’ Famous Blue Raincoat and the multi-artist compilations Tower of Song and I’m Your Fan having preceded this one. But m… |
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Mayor of the Sunset Strip $3.80 Traces the story of legendary Los Angeles disc jockey, Rodney Bingenheimer, who has helped to advance various forms of rock music since the 1960’s…. |
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In The Name Of The Father: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack $11.98 Bono chose to collaborate with a woefully underappreciated Gavin Friday for the soundtrack to this Neil Jordan film, with stunning results. The title track and “Billy Boola” predate the electronic movement in the states by a few years, but manages to sound vital and contemporary by any standards. Herein are the seeds of what U2 would try to reap on their Pop album. The other important original wo… |
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Raging Bull [VHS] $0.90 Martin Scorsese’s 1980 Raging Bull has been identified in recent years as one of America’s greatest films, and understandably so. Robert De Niro won a richly deserved Academy Award for portraying fighter Jake La Motta, an extremely difficult New York boxer who has to contend with his own temper and jealousy, as well as the Mob and the boxing establishment. Joe Pesci is very good as La Motta’s long… |
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Mayor of Sunset Strip (Spanish) (Sub) [VHS] $9.91 … |
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Biography – Sonny Bono [VHS] $6.52 ” He was one of the most recognizable stars of the ’60s, a pop icon who found success in music and TV. But when “”flower power”" faded, he forged an unlikely new career in politics. Sonny Bono first came to the public’s attention as the chart- topping songwriter of the hit “”Needles and Pins.”" But the diminutive performer was never content just to be an entertainer, and he transformed his ce… |
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Bukowski – Born Into This $13.23 Director John Dullaghan’s biographical documentary about infamous poet Charles Bukowski, Bukowski: Born Into This, is as much a touching portrait of the author as it is an exposé of his sordid lifestyle. Interspersed between ample vintage footage of Bukowski’s poetry readings are interviews with the poet’s fans including such legendary figures such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Fante (wife of J… |
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Raging Bull $3.66 Martin Scorsese’s brutal black-and-white biography of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta was chosen as the best film of the 1980s in a major critics’ poll at the end of the decade, and it’s a knockout piece of filmmaking. Robert De Niro plays LaMotta (famously putting on 50 pounds for the later scenes), a man tormented by demons he doesn’t understand and prone to uncontrollably violent temper tan… |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time $7.16 The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain… |
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Dylan: Visions, Portraits, and Back Pages $12.54 Dylan: Visions, Portraits, and Back Pages is now available in a compact paperback edition. The world’s best rock journalists from MOJO magazine piece together the complete Bob Dylan saga, revealing new insights into his life and career and telling the stories behind the songs. Previously unseen photographs, interviews, and commentary by fellow artists shed new light on Dylan’s life and his endurin… |