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The hilarious world of antiques!

Advantages: 13 of the best sketches around
Disadvantages: No extras

...first became aware of the Acorn Antiques sketches on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Comedy Sketches, it rated highly on it, and the couple of minutes of footage that was shown made me laugh so hard, I instantly became a fan! I started to hunt for any DVD’s that would include these hilarious sketches, I was aware that they came from the TV show “Victoria Wood As Seen On TV” but I couldn’t find a DVD of it. Then a few months later I found that they were ...
...included all 13 editions of Acorn Antiques (running about 5 minutes each, apart from the 12th which runs for about 10 minutes, as it is a mock behind the scenes look at how the fictional soup is made) including the continuity announcements that were on before each sketches, read by the wonderful Susie Blake. The best thing about Acorn Antiques is how it hasn’t dated, although it spoofs a soup that was on before my time and still (as well as my friends) ...

TheDoctor13 23.06.2007 · Read full review
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Funny Barbara!

Advantages: Barbara's amazing voice, very funny!
Disadvantages: The sequel not quite as good as the original

...the 1968 Oscar Winning musical Funny Girl. This first film follows Jewish girl Fanny Brice as she strives to become a star. Audiences come to love Fanny as she amazes them with her comic antics and her powerful singing voice. As she becomes a major success in her career, her personal life as it's ups and downs. Fanny falls in love with gambler Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif). He romances her and they eventually marry, however this film doesn't have a ...
...voice!! The sequel to Funny Girl is the 1975 film 'Funny Lady' (very original title!). The sequel focusses on Fanny's life after Nick Arnstein. Fanny meets Billy Rose (played by James Caan), who is a song writer and Broadway producer. The pair work together and also become lovers. However, unlike the first film, this film focusses too much on her career rather than her personal life. It's still a good film but does not live up to the fantastic Funny ...

sarahbooke 27.04.2005 · Read full review
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Older and greyer but still passing the test

Advantages: Nostalgic, Great Music, Whispering Bob
Disadvantages: Left out a lot of my fabourites

...that the DVD of the Old Grey Whistle test is absolutely superb, an excellent summary of one what surely must be the best TV music show ever. Cast your minds back to the seventies and early eighties, the Old Grey Whistle Test was screened late at night on BBC2. A programme to come home early from the pub for, a weekly music 'magazine' which featured live studio performances of album tracks by serious rock musicians such as Elton John, Bob Marley, ...
...whispering Bob is like an old friend who turns up unexpected one day and chats about the good old days. If they do a follow up version I’d like to see John Prine, Al Stewart and Don McLean included, perhaps you can remember some other classics from the show? Disc 1: Alice Cooper "Under My Wheels" Elton John "Tiny Dancer" Curtis Mayfield "We Gotta Have Peace" Randy Newman "Political Science" Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge "Help Me Make it ...

Merv 02.01.2003 · Read full review
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It's Loverley

Advantages: A great musical for the family
Disadvantages: Eliza's screech!!!!!!!!!

My Fair Lady is a musical that I really love to watch. It was produced in 1964 and stars Audrey Hepburn in the lead role of Eliza Doolittle but is still an enjoyable watch today. My Fair Lady is quite simply a rags to riches story whereby Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, is spotted by the supremely assured phoneticist Henry Higgins. The reason behind his noticing of her is her somewhat coarse cockney accent, which does raise quite a few laughs ...
...adds a certain something but my favourite songs simply have to be "Why can't the English?" and "Wouldn't it be Loverly", which are performed right at the beginning of the film. My reasoning for this is that these two musical performances showcase the differences between the speech of the two lead characters in a humorous and quite frankly brilliant way. Of Course the cast itself are also very important and again seem to have been superbly picked ...

MI9to5 27.09.2008 · Read full review
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where your wagon going

Advantages: great songs and great cast
Disadvantages: none for me

A raucous, western comedy, Paint Your Wagon is punctuated with a classic Lerner adn Loewe musical score, including, "They Call The Wind Maria" and "I Talk To The Trees". The story of a goldmining boomtown full of brawny men centres on the work-and-play partnership of Ben and Pardner (Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood) and the delicate wife they share (Jean Seberg). For me I enjoyed this film but when I think of westerns i do not think of musicals but ...

biglizzy 22.12.2006 · Read full review
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