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So, if you would like to win a pair of concert tickets for a 2010 sporting event, concert or show, and you think you know all there is to know about the Black Eyed Peas, just answer this easy question: In which all-girl band did Fergie get her start?!
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'Snoop Dogg Presents: The West Coast Blueprint' - Including 16 classic tracks from the Priority Records vault and a new recording by Snoop of Ice Cube’s “Check Yo Self.” Features classic tracks from west coast rap legends like N.W.A, Yo-Yo, Ice Cube, and Mack 10, as well as crucial but lesser-known artists including King Tee and Ras Kass. The compilation showcases the diversity of sounds and styles within the now universally-known gangsta rap aesthetic.
EPMD’s 'Strictly Business' (1988) reached the #1 spot on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Marking one of the first times east coast rappers were embraced by the west coast, Strictly Business took samples and lyrics to a new level. This seminal release’s reputation only continues to grow with multiple entries as one of the best hip-hop albums of all time.
Eazy-E’s solo debut, 'Eazy-Duz-It' (1988) was produced by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella, and also includes Eazy-E’s other N.W.A associates, Ice Cube and MC Ren, plus the D.O.C. As crucial as N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton was to the development of west coast rap, this release was named one of the Top 100 Rap Albums of All Time by The Source.
Master P’s 'Ghetto D' (1997) peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts and featured two Top 10 Rap chart singles. Recognized as one of Master P’s finest albums, Ghetto D includes performances from Fiend, Silkk The Shocker, C-Murder and Mia X and has sold more than 10 million copies around the world.
So, if you would like to win all these abovementioned Priority Records Remastered CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about Snoop Dogg just answer this easy question: Snoop owns a comedy/variety show on MTV called ... what?!
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Don’t miss the most shocking 'PSYCH' finale ever as a killer targets Shawn using scenarios from classic Hitchcock films!
Ally Sheedy guest-stars in Psych's season finale, directed by James Roday — "Mr. Yin Presents" — premiering Wednesday at 10/9C!
Enter to win a 'PSYCH' Prize Pack from USA Network that includes:
Psych Season 3 DVD Set
Psych Talking Bobbleheads
Psych Book: Call of the Mild
Psych Pineapple T-Shirt
Psych Pineapple Stress Toy
Contest Details:
Open to anyone, anywhere
One entry per person
Prize courtesy of USA Network
Prize valued at $135
So, if you would like to win one of these 'PSYCH' Prize Packs from USA Network, and you think you know all there is to know about the show itself, just answer this easy question: Shawn likes to tell people that Gus played Bud on "The Cosby Show" (1984). In fact, Dulé Hill who plays Gus, guest starred on "Cosby" once. But, in which year and as which character?!
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Win 'Thomas and the Runaway Kite' on DVD!
There’s a kite on the loose and Thomas must catch it before the wind blows it from Sodor.
With Gordon, Charlie and Toby by his side, Thomas learns that a helping hand keeps him right on track when it comes to rescuing kites, saving a swarm of bees, and preventing railway disasters from taking flight!
Hop on board for a high-flying ride with Thomas & Friends™ in these all-new, never-before-seen train adventures!
Episodes Include:
· “Thomas & the Runaway Kite”
· “Buzzy Bees”
· “Toby’s New Whistle”
· “The Biggest Present of All”
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES:
· “How Many Shapes Do You See” Game
· “Find What Doesn’t Belong” Game
So, if you would like to win one of these new DVDs, and you think you know all there is to know about Thomas, just answer this easy question: The show has featured celebrity storytellers Ringo Starr (1984–1986), Michael Angelis (1991–present), but who was the famous voice from 1991–1995?!
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Your search for tee-riffic fun with Barney & Friends™ is over!
Baskets full of egg-citement abound when Mother Goose, a nest full of eggs, and a mysterious, carrot-eating visitor bring super-Dino adventures to the whole family.
Hop along for the super-dee-duper adventures with Barney and his friends!
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES:
· “Barney’s Easter Egg Hunt”
· “Gumdrops Matching Game”
So, if you would like to win one of these new DVDs, and you think you know all there is to know about Barney, just answer this easy question: A six-foot purple dinosaur, Barney stars in the children's TV show Barney and Friends. The character got his start in 1987 in direct-sale videos created by Dallas teacher named ...?!
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With the much anticipated release this weekend of 'Alice in Wonderland,' New Era Cap www.neweracap.com has designed and manufactured five 'Alice in Wonderland' caps for the debut of the movie.
These five caps; All Over, Cheshire Cat, Eat me Drink me, Mad Hatter, and Off With Her Head commemorates most of the significant characters in the motion picture.
All Over cap
The All Over cap is a white 59Fifty style cap with a 360 degree sketched portrait which features Alice, Mad Hatter, March Hare, White Rabbit, Mouse, Caterpillar, and the Red Queen. On the top of the cap brim features the Cheshire Cat, and TweedleDee and TweedleDum on the inside of the brim.
Eat me Drink me cap
This black 59Fifty style cap has the slogan “Eat me Drink me” on the front of the cap with a sketched table set as the background behind “Eat me” and a sketched whiskey bottle with a cork set as the background behind “Drink me”. On the back of the cap, there is a skeleton shaped key hole displayed.
Mad Hatter cap
The green 59Fifty style cap has “The Mad Hatter” in white and orange text on the front of the cap. On the back of the cap features a scroll like design with the text embroidered “Mad asa Hatter.” The bottom of the brim is where the real art work is. The detailed sketched design of the Mad Hatter is seen with several of sketched hats placed around him.
Off With His Head cap
This black 59Fifty style cap has the Red and White knights jousting with their spaded shaped spears (on front). On the back of the cap, splattered blood is seen with the slogan “Off With His Head!” with the Queen of Hearts referenced.
Cheshire Cat cap
The Cheshire Cat Cap is a black 59Fifty style cap with the Cheshire Cat’s highlighting his grinning expression. His eyes are bright blue giving the hat to stand out with his detailed white grin. For the rest of the cap it displays strategically detailed designs which make the hat look like the Cheshire Cat’s fur. On the back of the cap there is a spiraling saying “Most everyone’s mad here. You may have noticed that I’m not all there myself.”
And so if you would like to win your own New Era 'Alice' Cap, and you think you know all there is to know about the 'Alice in Wonderland's Johnny Depp, just answer this easy cooking question: His relationship with signer Vanessa Paradis, now his wife, began way back when he met while filming which Roman Polanski-directed movie?!
Send me your answers and if you're correct you'll be in the running to win one of these wonderful New Era 'Alice' Caps. Just send us an e:mail here before May 1st with your answer and the subject title CONTEST: NEW ERA ALICE CAPS GIVEAWAY to:
Over the course of a multifaceted career that has spanned four decades, Dee Dee Bridgewater has risen to the top tier of today's jazz vocalists, putting her own unique spin on standards as well as taking intrepid leaps of faith in re-envisioning jazz classics. For her latest recording, 'Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee', Bridgewater honors an iconic jazz figure, Billie Holiday, who died tragically at the age of 44 a half-century ago.
Ms. Bridgewater states that Eleanora Fagan goes far deeper than being a tribute album of retreaded Holiday tunes. "Billie deserves to have her music heard in another light," she says, "and I definitely didn't set out to imitate her." Key to the fresh approach is pianist Edsel Gomez, Bridgewater's longtime band mate who wrote new arrangements for the 12 songs on the album, including the African polyrhythmic-charged interpretation of "Lady Sings the Blues, " a reharmonized version of "All of Me" and the gospel-tinged "God Bless the Child."
Says Bridgewater: "Edsel is an extremely gifted, talented arranger with very modern ideas. Edsel has the ability to be modern and work in a tasteful fashion." Gomez took on the daunting challenge of bringing new life to the music with enthusiasm. "I listened to everything Billie Holiday ever recorded," he says. "I let her music speak to me." He also kept in mind the personalities of the all-star band Bridgewater had assembled for the recording: dynamic reeds player James Carter, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Lewis Nash.
"This was my dream band," says Bridgewater. "I got to work with these musicians who I'd been dying to play with. I thought, I can't miss. With this band I can have a hard-swinging, touching celebration of Billie's music."
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about the lady herself, just answer this easy question: Her 1997 tribute album won her the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, but who was it a tribute to?!
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The Benjy Davis Project has spent the past seven years building fan strongholds around the U.S., releasing albums that capture their unique force. Davis's songs speak to the ability of music to move an audience, as seen in countless nights of touring and performing.
There comes a point in a band's career where they finally turn that corner into greatness, and their new release "Lost Souls Like Us" is that turn of the corner.
This Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based band has played across the country as headliners and as a support act, as well as events like the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about the guys, just answer this easy question: The group self-released its first album 'More Than Local,' on April 20, 2002, and an EP on May 4, 2004. But what was the title of this EP?!
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7dayBinge includes Todd Harrell of 3 Doors Down on bass, Jon Nicholson of the Muzik Mafia on guitar and vocals, Kenny Olson of Kid Rock's band on lead guitar, and Shannon Boone on drums.
A side project by artists who just wanted to make some music came together when Nicholson opened for 3 Doors Down in Europe.
Stops in Amsterdam (during which a 7-day binge may have occurred) found Harrell and Nicholson working on some music together. Recorded at the Sound Kitchen in Nashville and produced by the band, this album features straight-up rock with a slight dusting of Southern rock.
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about Kenny Olsen's buddy Kid Rock, just answer this easy question: Back before it all started for Kid Rock, he began rapping and joined a local hip hop group. Composed of The Blackman, Champtown, KDC, Crisp and Doc Rounce Cee, what did they call themselves?!
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More reasons to have a BEER and listen to some rock, this is the side project from Rawrb, Alex, and Josh.
A side project by artists who just wanted to make some music together and not get bogged down in the business side of things (“It’s always been the mentality with the Binge, just get together and make great music,” says Nicholson), the band came together when Nicholson opened for 3 Doors Down on a European tour.
Stops in Amsterdam (during which an actual seven-day binge of some sort may have occurred) found Harrell and Nicholson sitting down and working on some music together (the result of the initial session, the track “Cold Dark Grave,” worked so well that they kept writing together). Says Harrell: “Nicholson and I wrote these songs in Amsterdam a couple of years ago and have been messing around with them for a while now. Then, Kenny and Shannon came along, and it rocked!”
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about the guys and their set up, just answer this easy question: The artist who did the latest Screaming Mechanical Brain cover did the art for this new CD as well - but what is his name?!
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A woman’s true devotion to the one she loves is tested in the year’s most mesmerizing thriller, 'Possession', arriving on DVD March 9 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Starring Golden Globe® nominee Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Buffy The Vampire Slayer”), Lee Pace (“Pushing Daisies”) and Michael Landes (Lakeview Terrace), this suspenseful mystery explores the darkest secrets of love and grief for one happy couple.
Newlyweds Jess (Gellar) and Ryan (Landes) seem to have it all until a car accident renders both Ryan and his brother Roman (Pace) comatose. But things spin even more eerily out of control when Roman wakes up and tries to convince Jess that he is her husband. Beside herself with fear and grief, Jess grapples with the one question: could the man before her actually be the man she lost…or does something far more sinister await her in his arms?
DVD Special Features:
● Featurette
● Deleted and Alternate Scenes
○ He Isn’t Lying To Us
○ Jess Confronts Casey
○ Ryan’s Life-Support
○ Child Finds Body
● Alternate Ending
● Theatrical Trailer
So, if you would like to win one of these new DVDs, and you think you know all there is to know about Sarah Michelle Gellar, just answer this easy question: Before she landed the lead in the 1997 TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, what daytime soap was she part of?!
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Time Life, which has spent the last several years supporting the music behind an array of New York theatrical productions, releases the original cast recording of 'ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE'e on February 2nd, 2010.
The Off-Broadway hit centers around the vibrant ‘70s-era music scene, with music and lyrics that reflect the period flawlessly and was previously available digitally via iTunes on December 8th.
This original cast recording features the vocals of Leslie Kritzer (A Catered Affair, Legally Blonde and the upcoming Sondheim on Sondheim) and Doug Kreeger (Les Miserables, Signature's The Visit). It was produced by multiple Grammy nominee Robert Sher (including 2009's Ain't Misbehavin' as well as 2008's Gypsy which was released by Time Life), with assistance from Producing Associate Brandon Wardell.
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about this show, just answer this easy question: 'Rooms: A Rock Romance' begins in the late 1970s where Monica, an ambitious singer/songwriter meets Ian, a reclusive rocker. But which city in which country does this take place?!
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Of the nearly 16 million people practicing yoga in America more than a few of them happen to be music superstars whose work has been collected onto a new CD, 'Yoga Revolution', releasing to stores and online retailers March 30th (Time Life).
The 14 track compilation includes performances by Sheryl Crow, Peter Gabriel, Sarah McLachlan and Ziggy Marley alongside yoga culture icons Krishna Das, Snatam Kaur and duo Deva Premal & Miten.
'Yoga Revolution' also pairs Sting with chanters Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale, and Seal with Guru Singh, making their songs both familiar and soothing at once.
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about one of the musicians, Peter Gabriel, just answer this easy question: In 1970, he played the flute on which Cat Stevens album?!
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Many bands today try and come up with a gimmick or crazy angle to sell their music and to make themselves apparent to the masses. Rock band The Villains, however, has what might be classified as a novel approach, and that is simply to make great music—music that will remind you of a time when FM radio play helped break bands and arena tours helped to develop those acts.
You may have heard this all before, but you surely haven’t heard a band having as much fun making great music as The Villains in a long time.
The eight tracks on this self-titled debut by The Villains is a look into the eyes and hearts of a band with real life stories to tell.
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about the band themselves, just answer this easy question: From which city in which state does this rock band hail from?!
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Edwin McCain will kick off the release of 'The Best of Edwin McCain' with an appearance on the CBS News’ The Early Show, Saturday edition on March 27th, performing his new single, “Walk With You.”
Produced by Don Was, the track is already gearing up to be as big a smash as his enduring mega hits "I'll Be" and "I Could Not Ask For More."
All three songs are included in The Best of Edwin McCain along with “Some Kind of Wonderful” from his acclaimed 2008 covers album, Nobody’s Fault But Mine (both released on Saguaro Road Records).
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about the man himself, just answer this easy question: His second album, 'Misguided Roses,' spawned "I'll Be", a major hit single in 1998. This song is also featured on which-named charitable album, along with a live version of "Solitude"?!
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Already an internet phenomenon, 'God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours' includes some wise and insightful lessons by popular Cleveland newspaper columnist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and cancer survivor Regina Brett will make you see the possibilities in your life in a whole new way.
When Regina Brett turned 50, she wrote a column on the 50 lessons life had taught her. She reflected on all she had learned through becoming a single parent, looking for love in all the wrong places, working on her relationship with God, battling cancer and making peace with a difficult childhood.
It became one of the most popular columns ever published in the newspaper, and since then the 50 lessons have been emailed to hundreds of thousands of people. Brett now takes the 50 lessons and expounds on them in essays that are deeply personal. From "Don't take yourself too seriously-Nobody else does" to "Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift," these lessons will strike a chord with anyone who has ever gone through tough times--and haven't we all?
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: Regina Brett has been a newspaper columnist for fourteen years, eight of them for which newspaper in Cleveland?!
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Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency.
His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong.
Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: Author Jonathan Safran Foer has earned a National Jewish Book Award for which of his books?!
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With such iconic films as the Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2, and Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino has become the most famous and revered writer/director of his generation. Now he's back with his most ambitious movie yet: the World War II epic 'Inglourious Basterds'.
Starring Brad Pitt and filmed on location in Germany and France, it has the largest cast of characters of any Tarantino film to date.
The action tale follows the parallel story of a guerilla-like squad of American soldiers called "The Basterds" and the French Jewish teenage girl Shosanna who find themselves behind enemy Nazi lines during the German occupation. When the Inglourious Basterds encounter Shosanna at a propaganda screening at the movie house she runs, they conspire to launch an unexpected plot to end the war.
Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine - the leader of the Basterds. Raine is an illiterate hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee who puts together a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to hunt down the Nazis.
The major motion picture version of 'INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS', starring Brad Pitt is on DVD now.
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction won which award back at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival?!
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'Julie & Julia', the bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer), is now a major motion picture.
Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life-lived with gusto.
The major motion picture version of 'JULIE AND JULIA', starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams is on DVD now.
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: Meryl Streep sang onscreen for the first time in which late '80s film?!
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La-La Land Records has just released the soundtrack for 'Love Happens', composed by Christopher Young (Creation, Drag Me To Hell). The CD is now available in-stores and via the La-La Land Records website, www.lalalandrecords.com.
Christopher Young has received numerous awards and nominations throughout his celebrated career. He was honored at the Temecula International Film & Music Festival with the award for Outstanding Career Achievement in Film Composing. He has been nominated for two Emmys® (Norma Jean and Marilyn, Last Flight Out) and received both Golden Globe® and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nominations for The Shipping News. The composer created memorable action scores for two Marvel movies: Spiderman 3 and Ghostrider. His spine-tingling score for The Grudge propelled the film to a sleeper hit and his recent score to Drag Me To Hell has made several film music site listings as Best Score for 2009.
Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in the romantic drama 'Love Happens.' When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might...Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in the romantic drama Love Happens. When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might finally be able to help him help himself.
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about the man himself, just answer this easy question: Two years ago, Christopher Young received BMI’s highest honor - which was what (exactly) named Award?!
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Grammy® Nominated for Jazz Instrumental Album and Improvised Jazz Solo: A quarter of the age of Jazz, Gerald Clayton stakes his claim in the history and the present of this vital music with the following words, Tradition and innovation can peacefully coexist.
In libraries and on drawing-boards around the country this statement might be true, but with Gerald behind the piano this coexistence is anything but peaceful. His dynamic and award-winning sound has been praised in print by the Jazz Times and Los Angeles Times.
The New York Times has saluted his Oscar-Peterson like style and huge, authoritative presence and Down Beat Magazine s 2008 Readers Poll named him one of the top up-andcoming pianists to watch.
As a composer, his work has been commissioned by the Jazz Gallery in New York City and performed overseas by the BBC Orchestra. He has been honored with a Level 1 award by the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts (NFAA), the title Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and second place in the Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Piano Competition. Dodging early pressures
to emerge as a prodigy, Gerald instead honed his talents and his resolve to ensure that this next generation is never lacking for intricate, swinging pieces and performances that are steeped in tradition while always facing the future.
It is Gerald's own trio, based in New York City and comprised of Justin Brown (drums) and Joe Sanders (bass) that provides him the most direct opportunity to explore and expand his own thoughts in music.
Following upon their touring in Europe and the U.S., where they were praised for balancing a deconstructivist aesthetic with a stronghold on the swing factor, Gerald and his trio are set to release their debut album, Two-Shade this month on Emarcy.
So, if you would like to win one of these new CDs, and you think you know all there is to know about the man himself, just answer this easy question: In December 2009, Clayton was nominated for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, for his solo on which track off of his brnd new, upcoming 'Two-Shade' album?!
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Win 'The Men Who Stare At Goats' on DVD ... TODAY!
In 'The Men Who Stare At Goats', reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought; they are a legion of “Warrior Monks” with psychic powers who can read the enemy’s thoughts, pass through walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it.
When the program’s founder, Bill Django (Jeff Bridges), goes missing, Bob decides to tag along on Cassady’s mission to find him. The pair track Django to a clandestine training camp run by renegade psychic Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey) and the reporter becomes trapped in a grudge match between Django’s New Earth Army and Hooper’s personal militia of super soldiers.
'The Men Who Stare At Goats' standard definition DVD bonus features include Goats Declassified: The Real Men Of The First Earth Battalion; Project "Hollywood": A Classified Report From The Set; audio commentary with director Grant Heslov; audio commentary with book author Jon Ronson; character bios; deleted scenes; and the theatrical trailer.
'The Men Who Stare At Goats' Blu-ray™ edition includes the same bonus features, plus a digital copy of the film.
So, if you would like to win one of these new DVDs, and you think you know all there is to know about star George Clooney, just answer this easy question: On which VERY popular (back-in-the-day) comedic TV sitcom did he once play a detective in one episode at the very start of his career?!
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Comedy Central is bringing you an all new Thursday night comedy block with the return of 'Important Things with Demetri Martin' and 'The Sarah Silverman Program', Thursdays at 10/9c!
In the second season of his hit sketch comedy series, comedian Demetri Martin tackles more significant stuff and imperative items, and Sarah Silverman is back and ready to resume all the terrible language, unabashed ranting, and sweet, sweet self-absorption you’ve missed so much!
And so if you would like to win your own Comedy Central Prize Pack - The Sarah Silverman Program on DVD, Important Things with Demetri Martin on DVD, and Demetri Martin – These Are Jokes CD/DVD - and you think you know all there is to know about Sarah Silverman, just answer this easy cooking question: In which 'Seinfeld' episode (1997) did she make a guest appearances - and what was her character's name?!
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Many women struggle with being mothers. The great joys of parenting are hindered by harsh self-doubt and a chronic lack of physical and emotional energy. In 'MOMMY POWER', Sheila Schuller Coleman helps women understand that while they really don't have the power or strength to handle the demands of motherhood alone, they don't have to.
Mommy strength, Sheila says, comes from asking God to lend some of His, knowing He will never fail to provide. God will enable anyone who asks to become a powerful mother who loves strong, forgives strong, and models a strong faith.
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: Author Dr. Sheila Schuller Coleman is currently senior pastor of which Cathedral in which city in which State?!
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Whether God is using Kristin to raise children or the children to grow Kristin, He is present in every moment and every page. This warm, real, and insightful devotional celebrates the journey of growth mothers take with their children. Since their births, Kristin realized she has "discovered more about myself and my God in the pursuit of discovering my children."
Each entry in this 365-day devotional contains a Bible verse and a personal reflection from Kristin. It is on this intimate, daily walk that mothers can gain the courage to rely on God and emerge as a better woman.
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: Author Kristin Armstrong's greatest pleasures are serving God, loving her children, and encouraging women to live authentic, healthy, faith-filled lives. Kristin loves to travel, cook, paint, read, hike, and has even completed (thus far to date - Feb, '10) how many marathons)?!
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Engrained in our culture is the belief that unbending discipline is the only sure way to success. You must go to the gym five times a week, never order the dessert, and don't even think about buying that dress you keep staring at in the store window. Breaking from such a regimented lifestyle is a sign of weakness, right? Wrong!-and Joyce wants to tell us why.
Though setting rules in our lives are important, it's just as important that we break them from time-to-time. Structure is a powerful tool, but when diverging from your own goals is seen as catastrophic, it can have a hugely negative effect on us.
Balance is a core value in life and every once in awhile we deserve to indulge in a guilty pleasure or two. So don't feel bad about straying from your goals every once-in-awhile and in fact, embrace it: eat the cookie and buy the shoes!
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: Author Joyce and her husband, Dave, are the parents of four grown children and (currently) make their home in which city in which State?!
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In 'GREEN LIKE GOD', Jonathan Merritt gently and insightfully observes that the Creator has a lot to say about environmental problems like unclean water, mindless materialism, wastefulness, over consumption, and pollution. In fact, Jonathan writes that "in the book of Genesis, God went green and never looked back." Relying heavily on the Scriptures, Jonathan gives the case for green living, but not because it's trendy and hip. Rather, it's part of worshipful and obedient living as a follower of God.
'GREEN LIKE GOD' is at once practical, prescriptive, and conversational in tone. Jonathan weaves together surprising truths with the fascinating story of his own journey from enviro-ambivalence to the front line of the creation care movement.
Written for a new generation of Christians who are struggling with how to deal with the important issue of creation-care and green living, 'GREEN LIKE GOD' is both highly relevant and theologically sound. This is the book that people of faith are longing for and need today.
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"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins 'THE LANGUAGE GOD TALKS', Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between science and religion.
In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what purpose faith serves, and how scientific fact fits into the picture.,p>
He relates wonderful conversations he's had with scientists such as Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Freeman Dyson, and Steven Weinberg, and brings to life such pivotal moments as the 1969 moon landing and the Challenger disaster.
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Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. 'THE LOVELY BONES' is such a book - a #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its artistry, for its luminous clarity of emotion, and for its astonishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers around the world.
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."
So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, 'THE LOVELY BONES' succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.
The major motion picture version of 'THE LOVELY BONES', directed by Peter Jackson and starring Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, and Saoirse Ronan is in theatres now.
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: Rachel Weisz won the Oscar award for "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" for her role in which movie?!
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When the worst school shooting in history occurred, Pastor Jim Pace, a Virginia Tech alumnus, was front and center. Media, students, church members, and strangers asked him the same question: If God is loving, why doesn't He stop disasters before they start?
'SHOULD WE FIRE GOD' is Jim's thoughtful, reasoned response to the idea that God isn't doing His job very well. In conversational, nonpreachy prose, Jim explains why God allows pain and devastation to occur--and what the consequences would be if He didn't.
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: Author Jim Pace is copastor at New Life Christian Fellowship at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia and helped found which-named Network?!
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Balancing a tightrope between deadpan humor and pathos, reality and fantasy collide in the surreal comedy 'Cold Souls', arriving on DVD March 2 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Golden Globe Award® winner and Academy Award® nominee Paul Giamatti (Sideways) stars as an actor named… Paul Giamatti. During rehearsals for Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” he finds his soul growing so heavy under the weight of the material that his whole life begins to suffer. When Giamatti hears of a doctor who extracts and stores souls, he decides to undergo the procedure.
Unburdened, Giamatti’s life becomes freewheeling, easygoing… and more intolerable than ever! He returns to the doctor demanding his old soul back, but a little snafu involving the Russian black market leads him on a harrowing journey that gives new meaning to the term “soul searching!”
Featuring an all-star supporting cast that includes Academy Award® nominees Emily Watson (The Water Horse) and David Strathairn (The Bourne Ultimatum), Cold Souls is the debut feature film of Sophie Barthes who both directed and wrote the hilariously twisted comedy, which garnered her a nomination for Best First Screenplay by the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards.
The 'Cold Souls' DVD includes the ‘Soul Extractor’ slide show featurette, and nine deleted scenes and will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98 U.S. Cold Souls is also available for rental beginning February 2.
'Cold Souls' Special Features:
Soul Extractor (Slide Show)
Nine Deleted Scenes
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'Only Everything' - the new album from legendary saxophonist David Sanborn – shows Sanborn paying homage to the aesthetic of Ray Charles with new passion and vigor. 'Only Everything' comes on the heels of 2008’s critically acclaimed Here And Gone with the New York Times noting “It’s a tribute and a testament, brimming with conviction… the effect is a disarming delight.”
'Only Everything' was produced by longtime collaborator and friend Phil Ramone with Joss Stone lending her sultry vocals once again for Ray Charles’ “Let The Good Times Roll” while James Taylor completes a hypnotic rendition on “Hallelujah, I Love Her So”.
Accompanying Sanborn with rhythmic grooves are musicians Steve Gadd (drums) and Joey DeFrancesco (Hammond B3). Marking the first collaboration with DeFrancesco, the Hammond B3 served as the overall theme and core sound for the album. Arranged by Gil Goldstein, the saxophone and organ harmoniously blend to make a sound that is truly unique but also reminiscent of the great Ray Charles.
Sanborn elaborates on the union of the instruments; “His mastery of the instrument is complete. But more than a technically remarkable player, Joey has a feeling that’s unparalleled. No one grooves harder, yet no one relaxes deeper. While this is my first recording date with Joey, I’ve been teaming with Steve Gadd for years, a remarkable drummer who plays in service of the music. He colors his drum tones with subtlety, pushing us forward even as he lays back.”
Besides the two vocal tracks on the album, other stand-outs include “The Peeper”- a tribute to Hank Crawford, “Only Everything”- a Sanborn original dedicated to his first grandchild, Genevieve, as well as the haunting tribute to Fathead Newman’s “Hard Times”.
If you would like to win a copy of this new CD, just answer this easy question: From 1988-89, Sanborn co-hosted which late-night TV music show on NBC with Jools Holland?!
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What does it take to win the Kentucky Derby? How fierce does the competition get for the right to race for a Triple Crown victory? Millions of people across the country turned to Animal Planet’s hit docudrama Jockeys to find out.
Season two introduces two new competitors pursuing their dreams in the most dangerous yet prestigious two minutes of American sports.
The 'Jockeys - Season 2' two DVD set carries an SRP of $19.98 and runs 301 minutes.
So, if you would like to win one of these new DVDs, just answer this easy question: Animal Planet brings viewers into a world dominated by ferocious rivalries, fierce bonds and extraordinary risk as it documents the behind-the-scenes lives of jockeys and their magnificent racehorses. But what is the legal up-to weight that a jockey CANNOT cross over to be classified as a rider on the back of these 1,200 lb. thoroughbreds?!
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Millions of people tune in each week to TLC to follow the lives of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, their ten sons and eight daughters. Each day brings new wonders as the family juggles music lessons, studying, quality family time, chores, and everything in between, all the while proving that family is everything.
The '18 Kids and Counting: Season 2' three DVD set carries an SRP of $19.98 and runs 440 minutes.
So, if you would like to win one of these new DVDs, just answer this easy question: As the show should now be called '19 Kids and Counting,' that means there was a recent addition to the clan. Who was it (full birth name), who was she born to (parents first names), and on what date was she born in late 2009?!
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This Valentine’s Day we’re offering America’s couples an alternative date night that won’t break the bank, by challenging you and your loved one to spend the evening in with the new British hom-rom-com 'Mr Right'.
A fast-paced, colorful, and exuberantly romantic-comedy that tells the intertwined tales of Louise, an attractive Brit looking for love, and her gay friends, including producer Harry who lives with his rascal young actor boyfriend Alex; Rugby player William who dates soap star Lawrence; and wealthy artist Tom who is trying to hold on to the model Lars.
When Louise brings her latest catch Paul to dinner, this unwittingly sets off a chain of events that calls into question each couple’s relationship, as well as challenging Paul’s heterosexuality!
'Mr Right' merges Metrosexual and gay style with a backdrop of english cool as it dares you to find your Mr Right.
To celebrate the release described by New York Cool as, ““Exciting, savvy and screwball,” and by Variety as, “A sprightly ‘hom-rom-com’,” we have 2 copies of this exciting release up for grabs.
So, if you would like to win one of these new DVDs, just answer this easy question: Which British city is Mr. Right set in?
London
Manchester
Liverpool
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The story of a young woman fighting to reunite her family and reclaim their ancestral home during the war for Irish Independence.
A family's future is in the hands of one very brave young Irishwoman in this accomplished debut set between WWI and the growing violence of the Irish war of independence. Eileen O'Neill inherits a lifetime of struggle and heartbreak when her family is ripped apart by war, disease, mental illness and greed.
And if civil war and family strife weren't enough to deal with, Eileen is torn between James Conlon, a passionate Irish nationalist, and Owen Sheridan, a British army officer and the son of a wealthy family.
As the war's presence in her life intensifies, Eileen continues to weigh her heart's pull against national pride, family loyalty, class divisions and her own spirit.
This novel delivers the best of both worlds: secrets, intrigue and surprising twists will keep readers flipping the pages, while Falvey's insight and poetic writing tugs at the heartstrings of the most cynical audiences.
So, if you would like to win one of these new books then just answer this easy question: After two years working for the Job Corps, author Patricia Falvey arrived in Boston hoping to complete her University education. Indeed, she went on to receive a foreign student scholarship from which University, where she enrolled as an English major?!
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The bestselling author of 'The Terror' and 'Drood' is back with a thrilling tale of supernatural suspense set on the American frontier.
When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life.
Seamlessly weaving together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, Dan Simmons depicts a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa's long life is driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people's sacred Black Hills.
In August of 1936, a dynamite worker on the massive Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy-on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the Jefferson face.
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White Collar stars People Magazine's "Sexiest Rising Star", Matt Bomer. Watch it every Tuesday at 10/9c on USA Network. To solve the hardest crimes, hire the smartest criminal.
FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) recruits Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer), a charming criminal mastermind, to assist in catching other elusive criminals in exchange for Neal's eventual freedom. Also stars Tiffani Thiessen and Willie Garson.
And so if you would like to win your own 'White Collar Gift Bag filled with: a Cashmere Scarf, Links of London Leather Credit Card Case, Thomas Pink Custom Collar Stays, Stainless Steel Flask, and a White Collar T-Shirt, and you think you know all there is to know about the show, just answer this easy cooking question: FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) got his first on-screen acting job as a corporate giant named Larry Deon, but on which show and in which year?!
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Featuring 20 unforgettable love songs from today’s top artists, NOW That’s What I Call Love is the latest release from the hugely successful NOW That’s What I Call Music! series, which has collectively scanned more than 70 million units in the U.S. during the past decade.
A perfect gift for Valentine’s Day, NOW Love will be released on CD and digitally on January 26.
The NOW That’s What I Call Music! series is a joint venture from EMI Music North America, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group. NOW That’s What I Call Love will be distributed by EMI Music North America. NOW and NOW That’s What I Call Music! are registered trademarks of EMI (IP) Limited.
The NOW That’s What I Call Music! series debuted in the U.S. in 1998 after the brand had been a multi-platinum international success for 15 years. The series has generated sales of over 200 million albums worldwide, including more than 74 million copies in the U.S. Every album in the numbered U.S. series has reached the Billboard Top 10, with NOW 3 the first non-soundtrack, multi-artist collection in history to reach #1.
Colbie Caillat - Bubbly
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
Lifehouse - Whatever It Takes
3 Doors Down - Here Without You
Nickelback - Far Away
Daughtry - Home
David Cook - Light On
Hinder - Lips Of An Angel
Hoobastank - The Reason
Howie Day - Collide
Katy Perry - Thinking Of You
Alicia Keys - No One
Natasha Bedingfield featuring Sean Kingston - Love Like This
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Timbaland featuring OneRepublic - Apologize
Jordin Sparks (Duet With Chris Brown) - No Air
Norah Jones Come Away With Me
Lonestar - Amazed
Taylor Swift - Love Story
Keith Urban - Kiss A Girl
If you would like to win a copy of this new CD, just answer this easy question: Keith Urban who sings his big hit 'Kiss A Girl' is married to which Hollywood actress?!
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Win 'Tennessee' on DVD ... TODAY!
Multiple Grammy Award® winner Mariah Carey, currently garnering acclaim for her moving performance in Precious, stars with Adam Rothenberg (Mad Money) and Ethan Peck (TV’s “10 Things I Hate About You”) in Director Aaron Woodley’s (Rhinoceros Eyes) thought-provoking road film Tennessee, debuting on DVD January 26 from Vivendi Entertainment.
Brothers Carter and Ellis set out on a road trip to their childhood home in a desperate search for their estranged father, who may hold the key to their future. Along the way, they are joined by Krystal (Carey), who is fleeing a troubled life. Together, these unlikely companions seek to overcome their pasts and start anew.
Featuring Carey’s hit single, “Right to Dream,” the DVD Bonus features include “Road to Tennessee ,” a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film featuring interviews with the cast and crew. Produced by Lee Daniels (director of Precious), Tennessee had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
So, if you would like to win one of these new DVDs, just answer this easy question: In 1995, Columbia Records released Mariah Carey's fourth studio album, Daydream, which combined the pop sensibilities of Music Box with downbeat R&B and hip hop influences. A remix of "Fantasy", its first single, featured which rapper?!
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Country music star Chris Cagle’s top chart hits and other standout album tracks have been collected for Best Of Chris Cagle, to be released February 9 by Capitol Nashville/EMI. The new CD and digital title is Cagle’s first hits collection, with 15 tracks spanning his four albums released between 2000 and 2008, including five Top 10 Billboard Country chart hits.
Since his 2000 album debut with gold-certified Play It Loud, Chris Cagle’s southern rock-inspired country style has earned him great acclaim and chart success. Around the world, sales of his albums have exceeded three million copies, and in the U.S., he has topped Billboard’s Country Albums chart twice, with his gold-certified 2001 self-titled album and with his latest release, 2008’s My Life’s Been A Country Song.
Five of Cagle’s songs have achieved Top 10 status on Billboard’s Country Singles chart, including his #1 smash “I Breathe In, I Breathe Out” and #8 “Laredo,” both from his debut album, his #4 “What A Beautiful Day” and #5 “Chicks Dig It” from Chris Cagle, and the #3 “What Kinda Gone” from his most recent album. Best Of Chris Cagle presents all of these hits together for the first time, along with 10 other standout tracks.
If you would like to win a copy of this new CD, just answer this easy question: Chris is a brother of the Missouri Theta Chapter of --- ----- ----- ?!
[Hint: Each line donates a letter.]
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Win 'The Platinum Collection' from Enigma!
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The onset of the 21st Century’s second decade marks the 20th anniversary of a musical phenomenon which has always been ahead of its time: producer Michael Cretu’s ENIGMA.
To commemorate the milestone, Virgin/EMI will release a deluxe, career-spanning 3CD boxed set on February 9 titled ENIGMA: The Platinum Collection, featuring 17 standout album tracks, 12 sought-after remixes and 11 previously unreleased recordings. The collection will also be available for download purchase from all major digital service providers.
Romanian-born producer Michael Cretu has never shied away from breaking into uncharted terrain with his musical creations, catapulting his frequently experimental songs and albums into remarkable commercial dimensions. ENIGMA’s many worldwide accomplishments include more than 50 million records sold, 100 gold and platinum sales awards and 50 number one positions in the international charts.
ENIGMA: The Platinum Collection sees Cretu not only taking stock of his success, but also presenting an impressively comprehensive portrait of his creative oeuvre.
Disc One, “The Greatest Hits,” features 17 of ENIGMA’s most popular and successful songs, all of them prototypes of a unique conglomeration of ethnic, electronic and classical music transformed into mythical, sensual pop symphonies. Vocal protagonists, from Ruth-Ann to Andru Donalds to ENIGMA’s best-known Gregorian choirs, were integrated by Cretu into a sonic bed in which energetic rhythms and spherical spaces combine.
Disc Two, “The Remix Collection,” showcases 12 of ENIGMA’s tracks, remixed for lounge and club play, including favorites “Mea Culpa” and “Principles Of Lust” alongside more recent compositions “Voyageur” and “Dreaming of Andromeda.”
Disc Three, “The Lost Ones,” will be of particular interest to true ENIGMA fans, offering a 36-minute voyage through 11 drafts from the personal vault of sonic alchemist Michael Cretu, who describes the consecutively numbered curiosities, “Lost One“ to “Lost Eleven,” as follows: “Everything starts with trial and error. Sometimes it’s a sound, then a melody, a harmony or a mood. The ‘Lost Ones’ are my way of instrumental drafts developed from a boiling cauldron full of unordered, naive and carefree musical ideas.”
With ENIGMA, Cretu’s musical power refracts like light in a kaleidoscope. The Platinum Collection is a prism for the senses, music for small and major escapes beyond all borders.
If you would like to win a copy of this new CD, just answer this easy question: In 1996, Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! was released. Cretu's idea was that this third album was the child of the previous two albums, but what exactly does the French title translate to?!
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Win 'Essential Love Songs' from Dean Martin!
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Dean Martin’s most romantic ballads have been gathered for a new mood-setting collection, Essential Love Songs, to be released January 26 by Capitol/EMI, just in time for Valentine’s Day. 16 classics are featured, including “You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You,” “Just In Time,” “That’s Amoré,” “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face,” and “Dream A Little Dream Of Me.”
For Dean Martin, singing came as naturally as breathing. Effortlessly cool and dynamic in his life and career, Martin’s recordings showcase his trademark style of casual, easy charm. His timeless love songs remain universal favorites and perfect accompaniments to any romantic occasion.
Martin’s velvet voice provided his entry into show business, when he began singing professionally in Ohio’s ballrooms. He built a loyal following and moved on to the supper clubs and cabarets of New York City, before moving to Los Angeles and signing with Capitol Records. Martin’s meteoric rise to fame also made him a big-screen draw and landed him acclaimed film roles alongside legends including John Wayne and Marlon Brando.
Dean Martin is recognized as one of the 20th Century’s greatest entertainers for his decades of hit recordings, films, TV shows and stage performances. For more information, visit www.deanmartin.com.
If you would like to win a copy of this new CD, just answer this easy question: Drafted into the United States Army in 1944 during World War II, Martin served a year stationed in which city and state?!
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Win Joe Firstman's New CD 'El Porto' ... NOW!
Joe Firstman bought an $18 cross-country Greyhound ticket from his home in North Carolina to Los Angeles, arriving with a beat-up guitar and head full of songs. He quickly found the big stage. It all happened quickly: first came the big Hollywood gigs, then the industry buzz, then the big deal with Atlantic Records and national tours with big rock stars like Sheryl Crow, Jewel, and Willie Nelson. There was ego and excess and beautiful ladies and music, music, music. Firstman wrote it all down and sang his songs like his life depended on it.
When the world stopped spinning, he’d landed a regular gig as the bandleader on the “Last Call with Carson Daly” show. For four years, this was his university – playing and writing songs in whatever style the show’s musical guests played and learning how to engage a studio audience, day in and day out. That gig ended in early 2009.
Firstman is currently touring with his new set of songs, and he’s finding an expanding audience. Some of the fans who first knew him as a young pop star have stayed along for the ride, but a wider and more loyal following has accrued.
“El Porto” is a culmination and a beginning. Firstman once travelled with Willie Nelson and his family band and had a glimpse of a way of living in music that was sustainable, built for the long haul, a life lived for the sake of the song. Now, he sees that road opening up before him. And he is ready to roll.
“I have no other choice but to start writing better songs,” Firstman said. “It’s the only game. Nothing works in my proverbial plan unless the songs continue to get better. And I feel at the very least that has happened with ‘El Porto.’ I think there were moments and glimpses over the past, over all my records, including Atlantic. I lump them all in together; it was one fluid flow of mania. But now, I think it all got better.
Executive Producer Dean Devlin agrees. “For his work on the Leverage series Joe’s composition truly embodies and reflects what makes this show so enjoyable; it’s energetic, it’s hip, but mostly it’s fun.”
If you would like to win a copy of this new CD, just answer this easy question: Joe Firstman’s journey began beside Big Daddy’s deathbed. He was 19 and leaving his native North Carolina for the first time, heading to California to become a musician. But, who exactly was his “Big Daddy”?!
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'Amreeka' chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois.
In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle.
Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, Amreeka is a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live and the bittersweet search for a place to call home. Amreeka recalls Dabis's family's memories of their lives in rural America during the first Iraq War.
The film stars Haifa-trained actress Nisreen Faour as Muna, and Melkar Muallen plays her 16-year-old son, Fadi. Also in the cast are Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Yussef Abu-Warda and Joseph Ziegler.
Written and directed by Cherien Dabis, Amreeka was produced by Christina Piovesan and Paul Barkin. Alicia Sams, Dabis and Gregory Keever were executive producers; Liz Jarvis and Al-Zain Al-Sabah were co-producers. Amreeka made its world premiere in dramatic competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and played as Opening Night of New Directors/New Films.
'Amreeka' made its debut internationally in Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
Recently the film was nominated for 3 Independent Spirit Awards including Best Feature, Best Female Lead (Nisreen Faour) and Best First Screenplay (Cherien Dabis).
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“I didn’t do this record the rock’n’roll boy way…it’s my own sound,” says Kelley Ryan.
Note the emphasis there on the word “boy.” Kelley Ryan, the front-woman for the California band astroPuppees and a go-to songwriter and collaborator (most recently on Marshall Crenshaw’s Jaggedland), took a decidedly different approach to recording her first record under her own name. Twist is an album told from the female perspective; a theme encompassing everything from the lyrics to the instruments to the album’s many moods.
“I had this idea: the record was only going to be about girls, be it the daughter I never had, a heroine of my mine, my grandmother or a woman who lived near me in Ireland,” says Kelley. “It’s all from the feminine perspective. Even in the music – there’s no electric guitars, it’s just acoustic and loops and strings. I mean, I love three-minute electric-guitar pop songs, but I wanted to create something more comfortable for me and stay in that mood.”
But don’t get the wrong idea – Twist isn’t a polarizing record, a long lost Lilith Fair soundtrack or an angry feminine response a la Exile in Guyville. It’s a gutsy record with ambitious production, smart collaborations (with the likes of producer Don Dixon (R.E.M., Smithereens), legendary arranger Van Dyke Parks and singer/songwriter Marti Jones), and a personal touch and warmth that crosses all musical boundaries.
Ryan originally approached the new album as another astroPuppees record, her long-time, free form collaborative project that’s released four albums of critically acclaimed pop. But during the recording process, something changed. “Don Dixon was like, ‘this is your record’. And he was right. For the first time, I wrote all the words, and everything I say on this record is totally from the heart. So it made more sense for it to have my name on it.”
If you would like to win a copy of this new CD, just answer this easy question: Indeed, the album’s most interesting “twist” could well be the cover song ... but who's is it and what year was the song originally released?!
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'THE PEOPLE SPEAK' premieres Sunday December 13th at 8/7c on HISTORY!
'THE PEOPLE SPEAK' will feature dramatic performances chronicling the history of this country, including charter documents, letters, diaries and more, from such celebrities as Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Viggo Mortensen, David Strathairn, Marisa Tomei, Jasmine Guy, Michael Ealy, Kerry Washington, and musical performances from Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Allison Moorer and John Legend. These slices of life will be woven together with archival footage and interviews.
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'PAWN STARS' returns Monday November 30th at 10/9c on HISTORY!
'PAWN STARS' takes viewers inside the doors of the only family-run pawnshop in Las Vegas, where three generations of men from the Harrison - grandfather Richard, son Rick and grandson Corey jointly run the business, with clashing and camaraderie every step of the way.
This family lives and breathes the pawning business, using their sharp-eyed skills to carefully assess the value of items their colorful customers bring in, objects ranging from the obscure to the truly historic.
Their pawnshop shelves are filled with an eclectic array of items — each with its own unique story and past.
So, if you would like to win one of these HISTORY prize pack, just answer this easy question: The word 'pawn' is derived from the Latin pignus, meaning ... what?!
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Win Peter White's 'Good Day' CD ... Autographed!
For nearly twenty years, Peter White has made the acoustic guitar a dynamic and expressive voice in the overall soundscape of contemporary jazz. Since his first recordings in the early 1990s, he has infused pop standards and his own original material with a sense of innovation and energy that rivals the abilities of many of his electric guitar counterparts.
In a career that spans two decades and a dozen solo recordings, he continues to surprise seasoned fans and newcomers alike with his willingness to push the preconceived parameters of his instrument to new places.
But White's musicianship is only part of the story. While his more recent recordings have primarily consisted of cover material, a collection of original songs had been simmering and taking shape for several years.
It all comes to the surface on his new CD, Good Day.
While it's White's vision that ultimately drives Good Day, he does get some assistance and inspiration from "DC," the versatile keyboardist/programmer/songwriter who has produced and/or collaborated with a variety of contemporary jazz artists in recent years, including Paul Brown, Jeff Golub and Chuck Loeb.
Also helping out was keyboardist/producer Philippe Saisse, an accomplished solo artist in his own right who has helped to re-shape the careers of Rick Braun, Marc Antoine and Gato Barbieri, among many others. "Both of them helped me enormously with this project," says White. "They brought something to each one of these songs that I hadn't even heard in my own head, bringing them to life in a way that I never could have, because I had been living with them for so long that I could only think of them in a certain way."
To give yourself the chance to win an AUTOGRAPHED one these brand new CDs, just answer this easy question: White's brother, Danny White, was one of the original members who formed which well-known UK based band?!
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