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Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Leduc Investigation)

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Praise for the Aim�e Leduc series:

�One of the best heroines in crime fiction.��Lee Child

�If you�ve never been to Paris, or you�d like to go back soon, let Cara Black transport you there.��Linda Fairstein

�Charming. . . . Aim�e is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city�s historical streets and byways with their eyes closed.��The New York Times Book Review

A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aim�e�s sister, her father�s illegitimate daughter. Aim�e is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother�s disappearance and her father�s death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, Ren�, is wary of this stranger, but Aim�e embraces her and soon finds herself involved in murky Haitian politics leading to murder. The setting is the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank of the Seine, in the old university district of Paris.

Cara Black is the author of nine books in the Aim�e Leduc series. She frequently visits Paris but lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. For more information, visit www.carablack.com

Cara Black�s previous titles consistently hit the bestseller lists of the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, and Independent Mystery Bookseller Association. Soho Press is printing 30,000 copies of Murder in the Latin Quarter�our largest Cara Black print run to date.
A touring powerhouse, Cara Black will be doing a fourteen-city tour�expect to see her at more than sixty events!

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Fritz the Cat

retrauq — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:03:57 +0000

Maverick writer-director Ralph Bakshi (Heavy Traffic) made his feature-length film debut with this “startling and audacious” (The Hollywood Reporter) foray into adult-content animation,creating the first X-rated cartoon and one of the most successful animated features of its time! Based on a legendary character created by underground comic book artist-writer R. Crumb, Fritz the Cat is a brilliant commentary on ’60s life and a “snarling satire that stubbornly refusesto curl up in anyone’s lap” (Playboy). It’s the age of awakening and Fritz, one way-cool cat and NYU student, loves to embrace every experimental experience that crosses his path. Embarking on a fantastic journey of self-discovery, he indulges in everything from multiple bedroom follies to a wild joy ride through a dangerous Harlem. But when Fritz joins a group of radically aggressive hippies, he finds himself holding the dynamite that will detonate the ultimate ’60s statement one that could cost him his life!

Advertised as “X-rated and Animated,” Fritz the Cat earned an impressive $25 million in 1972. Screenwriter-director Ralph Bakshi based the film on three of Robert Crumb’s stories about a superficial college student who tried to seduce anything in a skirt. The gritty, often gross film shocked U.S. audiences accustomed to innocent flirtations and slapstick comedy in cartoons. Thirty years later, Fritz looks less shocking than puerile. The violence grafted onto Crumb’s innocent stories feels gratuitous, and the racial imagery tasteless. As dated as a Nehru jacket, the film will interest students of animation history and American pop culture. Crumb detested the film: he drew Fritz as a decadent Hollywood star, who was exploited by caricatures of Bakshi and producer Steve Krantz–and murdered by a bitter ex-girlfriend. “Another casualty of the ’60s…” –Charles Solomon

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The Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)

retrauq — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:03:56 +0000

The WINNER of 11 Academy Awards* including BEST PICTURE is now 50 minutes longer! This extended version of the epic conclusion of The Lord of the Rings trilogy includes new score by Howard Shore and over 350 new digital effects shots.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
Documentaries

The greatest trilogy in film history, presented in the most ambitious sets in DVD history, comes to a grand conclusion with the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Not only is the third and final installment of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien the longest of the three, but a full 50 minutes of new material pushes the running time to a whopping 4 hours and 10 minutes. The new scenes are welcome, and the bonus features maintain the high bar set by the first two films, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

What’s New?

One of the scenes cut from the theatrical release but included here, the resolution of the Saruman storyline, generated a lot of publicity when the movie opened, as actor Christopher Lee complained in the press about losing his only appearance. It’s an excellent scene, one Jackson calls “pure Tolkien,” and provides better context for Pippin to find the wizard’s palantir in the water, but it’s not critical to the film. In fact, “valuable but not critical” might sum up the ROTK extended edition. It’s evident that Jackson made the right cuts for the theatrical run, but the extra material provides depth and ties up a number of loose ends, and for those sorry to see the trilogy end (and who isn’t?) it’s a welcome chance to spend another hour in Middle-earth. Some choice moments are Gandalf’s (Ian McKellen) confrontation with the Witch King (we find out what happened to the wizard’s staff), the chilling Mouth of Sauron at the gates of Mordor, and Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) being mistaken for Orc soldiers. We get to see more of �owyn (Miranda Otto), both with Aragorn and on the battlefield, even fighting the hideously deformed Orc lieutenant, Gothmog. We also see her in one of the most anticipated new scenes, the Houses of Healing after the battle of the Pelennor Fields. It doesn’t present Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) as a savior as the book did, but it shows the initial meeting between �owyn and Faramir (David Wenham), a relationship that received only a meaningful glance in the theatrical cut.

If you want to completely immerse yourself in Peter Jackson’s marvelous and massive achievement, only the extended edition will do.

And for those who complained, no, there are no new endings, not even the scouring of the Shire, which many fans were hoping to see. Nor is there a scene of Denethor (John Noble) with the palantir, which would have better explained both his foresight and his madness. As Jackson notes, when cuts are made, the secondary characters are the first to go, so there is a new scene of Aragorn finding the palantir in Denethor’s robes. Another big difference is Aragorn’s confrontation with the King of the Dead. In the theatrical version, we didn’t know whether the King had accepted Aragorn’s offer when the pirate ships pulled into the harbor; here Jackson assumes that viewers have already experienced that tension, and instead has the army of the dead join the battle in an earlier scene (an extended cameo for Jackson). One can debate which is more effective, but that’s why the film is available in both versions. If you feel like watching the relatively shorter version you saw in the theaters, you can. If you want to completely immerse yourself in Peter Jackson’s marvelous and massive achievement, only the extended edition will do.

How Are the Bonus Features?

To complete the experience, The Return of the King provides the same sprawling set of features as the previous extended editions: four commentary tracks, sharp picture and thrilling sound, and two discs of excellent documentary material far superior to the recycled material in the theatrical edition. Those who have listened to the seven hours of commentary for the first two extended editions may wonder if they need to hear more, but there was no commentary for the earlier ROTK DVD, so it’s still entertaining to hear Jackson break down the film (he says the beacon scene is one of his favorites), discuss differences from the book, point out cameos, and poke fun at himself and the extended-edition concept (“So this is the complete full strangulation, never seen before, here exclusively on DVD!”). The documentaries (some lasting 30 minutes or longer) are of their usual outstanding quality, and there’s a riveting storyboard/animatic sequence of the climactic scene, which includes a one-on-one battle between Aragorn and Sauron.

One DVD Set to Rule Them All
Peter Jackson’s trilogy has set the standard for fantasy films by adapting the Holy Grail of fantasy stories with a combination of fidelity to the original source and his own vision, supplemented by outstanding writing, near-perfect casting, glorious special effects, and evocative New Zealand locales. The extended editions without exception have set the standard for the DVD medium by providing a richer film experience that pulls the three films together and further embraces Tolkien’s world, a reference-quality home theater experience, and generous, intelligent, and engrossing bonus features. –David Horiuchi

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No Moon Tonight (Witness to War)

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Don Charlwood was born in Melbourne in 1915. Accepted as a RAF navigator in 1940, he was posted to 103 Squadron at Elsham Wolds in the winter of 1942. There he crewed up with a pilot from Western Australia and a British crew to fly a Lancaster bomber. In No Moon Tonight he gives a profound insight into the inner lives of the men of Bomber Command and their hopes and fears in the face of mounting losses. He depicts the appalling human cost of the air war in an account which has been favorably compared to other enduring memoirs of the 1st World War, namely Sassoon’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. A memorable first hand account of the air war over Germany.

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One of the brightest stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, the lovely Loretta Young appeared in over 100 films during her movie career. Some of her most memorable roles from the 30s and 40s were A Man’s Castle, Ramona and The Farmer’s Daughter, for which she won an Academy Award in 1947. In the 1950′s, Loretta turned her talents to television. Her show first aired in September 1953, and in all, Loretta made over 280 episodes! This 3 DVD box set includes the first thirty episodes, starting with the original show Letter from Loretta, retitled The Loretta Young Show. The weekly show made Loretta one of the best known and beloved personalities on television. Her patented entrance, a dramatic swirl through her living room door,wearing the latest in fashion designer gowns, gained for her the reputation as America’s best dressed actress. Authorized by the Loretta Young Estate, this box set includes rare family home movies and photographs. Loretta’s son, film producer Chris Lewis, narrates this journey through Loretta’s career as actress, mother and role model to millions of American women.

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Years after two 30 foot prehistoric crocodiles are captured and killed in Maine, the local sheriff teams up with an EPA agent, a female Fish and Wildlife agent and a big game hunter, to kill four blood-thirsty offspring of the original killer crocs.

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