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Manufacturer: Lions Gate Brand: Lions Gate Model: 17355753

Step into Tyler Perry’s neighborhood, peel back the rough exterior and BEHOLD! Get on the laugh wagon as some of your favorite stage stars strut, sing and remind us, no matter how tough it gets, that laughter, faith and love are the best remedies. The Tyler Perry entertainment machine keeps cranking across entertainment markets with this home-video entry of one of his many stage plays, Laugh to Keep from Crying. It was taped during a live performance in Perry's hometown of Atlanta before the show went on a healthy, extended national tour starting in the fall of 2009. Perry wrote and directed the production and his fans will find a lot to like in the mix of sitcom gags, down-home moralism, old-fashioned melodrama, and rousing gospel- and soul-based music (cowritten by Perry and Elvin Ross). The only thing they'll miss is the performing presence of Perry himself since Laugh does not feature the character of Madea, his big-bosomed, gun-toting, potty-mouthed granny of an alter ego. Laugh takes place round about a tenement apartment on an unnamed urban street where gunshots are frequent and the primarily African-American tenants are struggling to get by as they also struggle with a variety of life issues. The building is home to Carol (Cheryl Pepsii Riley), a single mom with two teenagers who have different fathers and wholly different attitudes. There's Tony (Donny Sykes), a momma's boy who's dedicated to school, church, and singing in the choir, and Lisa (Tamar Davis), a rebellious handful and a chronic truant who can't understand why her mother is keeping the identity of her father hidden. Across the hall is Belinda (Chandra Currelley-Young), a hard-working widow who just lost her job, and upstairs is Niecy (D'Atra Hicks), a goodhearted aging hooker, along with Peter and Anna (Wess Morgan and Stephanie Ferrett), white newlyweds who have moved into the building to save money. Rounding out the ensemble cast is Donnie (Anthony Dalton), a caring cop who's trying to woo Carol; Peter and Anna's uptight mother-in-l...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Brand: UNIVERSAL Model: 4941713

On 25th July 1998 - as dusk fell on the historic Route of Kings in London's Hyde Park, history was made. An audience of twenty-five thousand people gathered to see an amazing dance extravaganza - Feet of Flames. Over one hundred performers danced their way into history - led by the greatest of them all - Michael Flatley. With new music, dances, costumes and sets, Feet of Flames pushes Michael Flatley to the limit - and takes you on a spectacular journey, through light and dark, good and evil, passion and despair, to an astonishing finale that will leave you gasping for breath.

Manufacturer: Capitol Brand: EMD Model: 2252288

Over an hour of hilarious standup comedy and music from Rodney's studio album, King of the Mountains. Also features the gut-busting songs that launched him to the forefront of the comedy world.

Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock classic Jesus Christ Superstar returns to its roots with this sensational performance filmed in the UK during the Live Arena Tour. An incredible cast including Tim Minchin as Judas Iscariot, Melanie C as Mary Magdalene, Chris Moyles as King Herod and Ben Forster as Jesus Christ, perform hit songs including “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”, “Gethsemane”, “Heaven on Their Minds”, “Everything’s Alright”, “King Herod’s Song” and “Superstar” in an exciting and contemporary interpretation.

Manufacturer: Sony Legacy Brand: HOUSTON,WHITNEY Model: 2231161

No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: HOUSTON,WHITNEYTitle: GREATEST HITSStreet Release Date: 05/16/2000

Manufacturer: Sony Legacy Brand: MTV Model: 2230625

This DVD 1996 concert has 13 tracks from SAP & Jar of Flie s albums There are new arrangements, & more. 3 tracks not o n the broadcast are included: Frogs, Angry Chair, & The Killer Is Me.

Manufacturer: Sony Legacy Brand: TAYLOR,JAMES Model: 2230633

TAYLOR AND HIS BAND ARE FILMED IN CONCERT AT BOSTON'S BEACON THEATRE, PERFORMING CLASSICS AND SONGS FROM THE HOURGLASS ALBUM. Sensitive singer-songwriter, soft-rock poster boy, boomer troubadour: James Taylor has outlived the stereotypes offered by fans and critics alike by simply staying his musical course and continuing to refine his familiar, deceptively mellifluous style. This 1998 concert displays Taylor's craftsmanship and easy rapport with both his band and his audience to satisfying effect, offering a repertoire that draws from his entire career while providing a generous selection of songs from his Grammy-winning 1997 set, Hourglass. Fans will love it, of course, but even jaded listeners can find fresh feeling and formidable expertise here. By now, Taylor's skill at low-key love songs is a given, making him an archetypal "sensitive New Age guy" on the strength of his canny mix of emotional vulnerability, romantic imagery, and understated delivery. Less obviously, Taylor has gradually transformed the shadows of disillusionment audible in his earliest songs into a nuanced acknowledgment of his own age. "Line 'Em Up," from Hourglass, typifies his skill at limning disarmingly lucid, frankly philosophical vignettes, here woven around a recollection of Richard Nixon's last hurrah, while "Jump Up Behind Me" affords a testament to self-determination ultimately as serious in theme as it is buoyant in its musical framework. Throughout, Taylor's stage band proves a thoroughbred, its accompaniment rock solid and delicately detailed, and perfectly matched to a crack backing chorus. Among the first video concerts produced with DVD in mind, Live at the Beacon Theatre has been in heavy rotation in home demonstration suites ever since its release, an achievement understandable after hearing the crystalline 5.1 mix engineered by Frank Filipetti, who shared a Grammy as coproducer on Hourglass and snagged a second award for his engineering of that album. --Sam Sutherland