The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot examines the skill with which John F. Kennedy used the media to create and sustain an image of glamour. Under Kennedy, not only was there an official White House photographer (Cecil Stoughton), but Kennedy had his own personal photographer (Jacques Lowe) who captured most of the intimate photos that have defined Kennedy in retrospect. In interviews, Stoughton and journalists of the time like Ben Bradlee discuss how Kennedy deflected attention away from his health and womanizing, focusing the public on a young, vital president and his warm, loving family. As television began to take hold of the country, becoming its dominant medium, Kennedy's photogenic looks became a powerful political tool. The Kennedy Mystique: Creating... Learn More
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This movie is a riot and Stockard Channing is fantastic! Written by Joan Rivers, The Girl Most Likely To is a dark comedy about an ugly duckling that turns into a swan. Tormented because of her looks, Stockard Channing plays an unlucky young woman whose life is forever changed after a horrible car accident. I'm so happy this film has finally been released! More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Stockard Channing DVD Release Date: Released the 04 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot examines the skill with which John F. Kennedy used the media to create and sustain an image of glamour. Under Kennedy, not only was there an official White House photographer (Cecil Stoughton), but Kennedy had his own personal photographer (Jacques Lowe) who captured most of the intimate photos that have defined Kennedy in retrospect. In interviews, Stoughton and journalists of the time like Ben Bradlee discuss how Kennedy deflected attention away from his health and womanizing, focusing the public on a young, vital president and his warm, loving family. As television began to take hold of the country, becoming its dominant medium, Kennedy's photogenic looks became a powerful political tool. The Kennedy Mystique: Creating... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Stockard Channing DVD Release Date: Released the 20 July 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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For anyone who's wallowed in the inanities of 1970s disaster movies, The Big Bus is not only witty but downright endearing. Instead of an endangered airliner or a capsized cruise ship, this dippily deadpan parody features a block-long, atomic-powered, luxury super-Greyhound setting off on its first transcontinental run with a garish cross section of humankind programmed for redemption, retribution, or just sublime ridiculousness as they roll toward Doom--or Denver, whichever comes first. Writers Fred Freeman and Lawrence J. Cohen, who penned the daffy historical spoof Start the Revolution Without Me (1970), twist the sententious ironies of disaster-movie dialogue into pretzels (priceless scene: Richard B. Shull, as a "terminal traveler" with six months to live, and Bob... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Joseph Bologna - Stockard Channing Director(s): James Frawley DVD Release Date: Released the 24 June 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Set in a world of emptiness and loneliness (have you ever seen an airport so barren?), "The Business of Strangers" is one of those instances where a film would probably work better as a stage play. It's small cast and finite settings would work well in a theatre, but waste the vast potential that cinema has to offer. The only stage characteristic it's lacking is depth.
That being said, it is a film. What are its merits as such?
In a story such as this, where a young free spirit encounters a middle-aged corporate lifer, the tendency is for the audience to be made to empathize with the younger character. What "The Business of Strangers" does best is to reverse this cliche. Witness an early scene in an elevator. Paula (Julia Stiles) notices the leers of the men around her, and decides to... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Stockard Channing - Julia Stiles Director(s): Patrick Stettner DVD Release Date: Released the 06 August 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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John Guare's hit Broadway play--about an Upper East Side couple who gets bilked by a young black man claiming to be Sidney Poitier's son--receives a terrific screen translation in this film by Fred Schepisi. Though the play was discursive and episodic, Schepisi, working from Guare's adaptation, makes it all flow like a fascinating evening listening to friends recount something that happened to them. But the story itself is also intriguing for the disparity it reveals between the wealthy, the would-be wealthy, and the have-nots yearning to be rich. Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland are exceptional as the couple who open their home to a young man they believe is a friend of their children (to whom they barely speak); Will Smith is fascinatingly glib as the young man, who claims that... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Stockard Channing - Will Smith - Donald Sutherland Director(s): Fred Schepisi DVD Release Date: Released the 15 August 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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