Some Favorite DVDs, CDs, Books...

DVD: Movies
DVD: Comedy / Kid Stuff
DVD: Classical
DVD: Concerts - Jazz / Blues
DVD: Concerts - Rock
DVD: Concerts - Folk / Bluegrass / Country
CDs
Books

** DVDs **

Movies:

Amadeus (Director's Cut) (1984, 2002)
A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition) (2002)
Casablanca (1942)
Diva (1982)
Gladiator (2000)

Hannibal (2001)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Monster's Ball (2002)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Rain Man (1988)
4 Academy Awards in 1988 for: Best Picture; Best Director - Barry Levinson; Best Actor - Dustin Hoffman; and Best Original Screenplay - Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow.
Rocky (1976)
Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director
Shakespeare in Love: Collector's Series (1998)
Sixth Sense (1999)

 

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Comedy / Kid Stuff DVDs:

Beauty and the Beast (Disney Special Platinum Edition) (1991)

Big Daddy (1999)
Chicken Run (2000)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Grinch (Full Screen Edition) (2000)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Full Screen Edition) (2001)
It's a Wonderful Life (1947) NR

Kate & Leopold ()
Laurel & Hardy: Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy Volume 1 (1919) NR
DVD Features: Mastered from original 35mm material, the lost films of the great comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are now available for the first time on DVD. Volume One contains "Big Business" (1929, 21 min.) "Do Detectives Think?" (1927, 24 min.), "Call of the Cuckoo" (1927, 18 min.) and "The Finishing Touch" (1928, 21 min.), plus 2 Stan Laurel solo shorts: "On the Front Page" (1926, 23 min.) and "Hustling for Health" (1918, 15 min.)
Men in Black (Deluxe Edition) (1997)
Michael (1996)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Music Man (1962)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
The Princess Diaries (Full Screen Edition) (2001)

Remember The Titans (1989)
Scary Movie (2000)

Scooby Doo (2002)
Shrek (2001)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney Platinum Edition) (1938)
SpongeBob SquarePants - Sponge Buddies/Nautical Nonsense (1999)
SpongeBob SquarePants - Halloween (1999)
SpongeBob SquarePants - Sea Stories (1999)
Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition) (1999)
Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (The Ultimate Edition DVD) (1991)
Toy Story & Toy Story 2 (2 Pack) (1995)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (30th Anniversary Edition - Widescreen) (1971)

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Classical DVDs:

Horowitz in Moscow (1986)
Verdi - La Traviata (1994) / Richard Eyre, Solti, Gheorghiu, Lopardo, Nucci, ROH Covent Garden

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Concerts - Jazz / Blues DVDs:

Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Ray Charles - In Concert (1999)
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live at the Quick (2002)
Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy's Dream Band (1982)
B.B. King: Live in Africa (1974)
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)

Legends of Country Blues Guitar, Vol. 1 (1994)

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Concerts - Rock DVDs:

Badfinger (1997)
The Band: The Last Waltz (1978)
Eric Clapton: In Concert-Benefit for the Crossroads Centre at Antigua (1999)
Little Feat: Rockpalast Live (1977)
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (1984)
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Live From Austin, Texas (1995)

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Concerts - Folk / Bluegrass / Country DVDs:



Down from the Mountain (The "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Concert) (2001)
Willie Nelson - Live in Amsterdam (2001)

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** CD's **

Blues:
The Bill Broonzy Story (Amazon link)
Big Bill Broonzy
Audio CD (August 17, 1999)
Original Release Date: August 17, 1999
Number of Discs: 3 / Label: Polygram Records

Classical:
Chopin: Études, Opp. 10 & 25
Murray Perahia
Audio CD (September 17, 2002) / Label: Sony - #61885

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** Books **

Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz
by James L. Dickerson
Hardcover: 243 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.99 x 9.22 x 6.32
Publisher: Cooper Square Press; ISBN: 0815411952; (March 2002)

What'd I Say: The Atlantic Story
by Ahmet Ertegun
Hardcover: 560 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.76 x 14.56 x 10.12
Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers; ISBN: 1566490480; (June 15, 2001)

The Baby Dodds Story
as told to Larry Gara

Big Bill Blues - William Broonzy's Story
as told to Yannick Bruynoghe

Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records
by Peter D. Goldsmith
Hardcover: 468 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.53 x 9.37 x 6.45
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press; ISBN: 1560988126; (May 1998)

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