Description
Imagine if you will...bright lights, an electrifying audience, a drum roll and the intense excitement as your name is announced while beautifully designed crown is placed on your head!
You glide down the runway in your first official walk as the new winner, feeling exhilarated & living your dream! Congratulations, you have begun one of the most exciting & memorable adventures of your life!
This DVD, hosted by a former
Miss New York, pageant judge & the executive director of the Mrs. NY America Pageant, along with a
Professional Model and Pageant Contestant &
Mrs. New York America 2004, provides you with all of the tools necessary to begin living your dream as the very best pageant contestant you can be! You will learn everything you need from selecting the right pageant for you, hair & makeup tips, selecting the best wardrobe, the most important things the judges look for, how to respond well in an interview, effective on-stage presentation to shining the brightest among your pageant competition. Why wait? Who knows, you may be the next to capture a pageant title & crown!
This DVD Features:
-Why Participate?
-How to enter Beauty Pageants?
-Preparing for Pageant Participation
-What are the judges looking for?
-Personal Interviews
-Interview Outfit
-Swimsuits
-Evening Gowns
-Talent
-Enjoy the entire Journey
-The role of the Titleholder
-Conclusion
This very experience is waiting just for you!
Discover how you can become more outgoing and confident person.
Customer Reviews:
Great for contestants new to pageants!.......2007-06-15
This DVD is great for any person who is new to pageants and has not done ANY research! I am new to pageants and I have done plenty of research, therefore, this DVD was not very beneficial to me. Almost all of the information discussed were things that I already knew. And depending on what type of pageant you are doing, you may find that there are tips discussed that are not beneficial to you. For instance, during the evening gown segment, the contestant wore a dress with a slit up the middle and a long train. That is absolutely not acceptable in the pageant I am competing in.
I was kind of disappointed because I thought this DVD was going to show examples of walking on the runway in your evening gown, however, it did not. I also thought that there were going to be more examples of interview questions, but there were only a few. If you are going to buy this DVD, I suggest purchasing it from a marketplace seller. With shipping and handling my total was a little over $6. I am VERY happy I did not pay the $10.99 rate that Amazon offers because it is NOT worth it!
Not what I expected.......2007-05-30
I was expecting inside information on what to do at a child's pageant, i.e. how to walk on stage, what to wear etc. This is geared for adult pageants only. There was no helpful information for child pageants.
Great resource tool !!!.......2006-12-28
This is a wonderful learning tool for girls that are going into pageants - at any age. Girls that have been participating in pageants it helps you aware of things you would need to do differently. Hiring this kind of talent/coaching would really cost alot. You are also getting a judges point of view. I would have liked to have had this inside info 5 years ago. Try this video, you cannot go wrong either way. Great resource tool!!
I am so Glad I've purchased this wonderful DVD.......2006-11-21
Very helpful tool ...To be honest, I've never wanted my daughter's to get involved in pageants. I always worried about tem getting low self-esteems or eating disorders from all the subjective judging. My daughter begged me to order this DVD. We have used it as our guide to the pageant world. Thanks to this DVD, I've been able to understand how wonderful pageants can be for girls. Using guidelines included in the DVD we've entered several local pageants and so far my daughter is loving the experience. Pageants are like anything else, you have to be educated so that you can spot the good from the bad. This DVD is a road map through this new world...
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- Keep Kept For Christian Oliver
- EXCELLENT MYSTERY/EROTICA FILM
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Kept
Starring:
Cal Bartlett ,
Sondra Currie ,
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ASIN: B00005AVZT
Release Date: 2001-05-15 |
Customer Reviews:
Keep Kept For Christian Oliver.......2003-08-02
Christian Oliver is great in this erotic thriller, he is so hot. I think that this is an erotic thriller for either sex. I am a guy who liked it a lot, mainly because of Christian. The girl was pretty hot too. The movie contains a interesting plot and has another known actor Ice-T. While the story circles around a murder mystery it has a lot of wild scenes.
EXCELLENT MYSTERY/EROTICA FILM.......2002-02-25
This movie is a basically a soft core erotica film but with a decent plot and very good acting. It has the beautiful Michelle von Flotow in it at her seductive best and also Sondra Corie who is by no means short in the loooks department too.
For a DVD in this genre it has lots of extra features including a commentary track by the principal actors who keep cracking up over the lines they had to deliver (a bit irritating), deleted scenes and a behind the scenes featurette.
If you like this sort of late night cable movie, it's worth a purchase because of the extras.
Product Description
Take a tour through the secret history and government cover-up of UFOs. This unique documentary features new and exclusive information. This presentation will take you where most others have never been. Learn how much information has been kept back from the public and how many amazing projects have been developed from captured or bartered Alien technology. There is no FLUFF in this presentation. It's four hours of solid information, much of it not seen in other presentations. Discover how a military aircraft using UFO technology to create a stealth field takes off from a base in Florida in 1966 and lands minutes later on the property of a naval station in Virginia in 1982. Discover how people using secret government technology and alien power sources were able to time travel into the future and predict the 9/11 terrorist attacks over ten years before they happened. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Kept Husbands
Starring:
Mary Carr ,
Lita Chevret ,
Dorothy Mackaill ,
Joel McCrea , and
Robert McWade
Director:
Lloyd Bacon
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B000CEXG7S
Release Date: 2006-01-31 |
Customer Reviews:
Not bad for an overview for couples.......2007-09-06
It's not much of a secret but it's a decent general overview of ideas you should consider as a couple. It's best to get this after you're in a relationship with some already to benefit from it. Not recommended if you're just looking for a porm video. The video quality is old 1990's but alright as long as you can appreciate the content.
Product Description
Travel with Ray VanderLaan to the land of Israel and discover fascinating truths about the events surrounding the death and resurrection of JESUS. See 2,000 year old tombs, much like the one that so temporarily held JESUS. Experience a dramatic plunge into the vibrant history and culture of Israel. THE TRUE EASTER STORY is not a superficial Holy Land travelogue. It's a total cultural immersion directed by teacher and historian Ray VanderLaan. Using his knowledge of ancient Jewish holidays and little-known customs, VanderLaan probes the true depth of the Easter story as it begins 2,000 years earlier with a simple promise between a man called Abraham and Almighty GOD. God's keeping of that promise reveals a beautifully intricate masterpiece of love for humankind, love fully realized centuries later in JESUS' resurrection and his gift of eternal life. After viewing this DVD, the celebration of Easter will forever be a time of deeper, richer joy for you and your family.
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- Tribute or what
- Yawn
- could have been unbelievable...with a bit of effort...instead of okay.
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Best Kept Secret [Region 2]
Starring:
Acoustic Alchemy
Manufacturer: Grp Records
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ASIN: B000FUTUWY
Release Date: 2006-07-25 |
Customer Reviews:
Tribute or what.......2007-05-08
I am not sure if is a tribute to Nick Webb.... but I wanted a more serious DVD. Is a compilation of moments but in general there is no a complete song. it's a shame!
Yawn.......2007-01-29
While being a huge fan of Acoustic Alchemy, I was a little disappointed at the small amount of performance footage. While the documentary style allows you understand the origins of this group, it overwhelms the magic of the band. Just when a song gets cooking they fade to interview. If you are looking for performance, don't waste your money. The documentary would be a nice addition though, if you are a collector.
could have been unbelievable...with a bit of effort...instead of okay........2006-07-26
i LOVE Acoustic Alchemy...and dearly miss Nick Webb...its founder and lead steel player who sadly passed away a few years back.
GOOD NEWS..this is a nice program and features the dear departed Mr Webb. This is a fun program with some exciting footage from a special session at Pinewood studios shot with an expert director and lit like a top notch hollywood production...mixed in with backstage footage etc....
BAD NEWS...this DVD is merely a transfer from the before released VHS (with the addition of two videos which are nice).
MY COMPLAINT? In the world of DVD we have sooo much potential..the concert that was exquisitely lit and filmed (oh and recorded a whole AAlchemy CD came from it!) should have been presented as an extra feature on this ....so we would have the PBS Style pledge drive program with the concert interrupted by the interviews etc and the CONCERT as a standalone...THAT is the way to make it something to watch over and over and cherish while toasting the late Mr Webb and smiling that his dream did come true.
what we have is nice...and certainly better than the other DVD post NICK with the clownhouse stage set...but what a missed opportunity...I'm surprised that AA's management didn't think of doing this right...instead a scant hour and where is all that great concert footage...on a shelf?
RIP Nick Webb and thanks for going forward Greg!
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- Only one of the three films herein, objectively, could be characterized as well-done, pre-code, and worthy of watching.
- Cool movies, but "Of Human Bondage" isn't pre-code
- Dazzling Trip Into our Pre-Code Past!
- For the Fans of Pre-Code Hollywood
- An alright video
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Pre-Code Hollywood - The Risque Years (Of Human Bondage / Millie / Kept Husbands)
Starring:
Leslie Howard ,
Bette Davis ,
Frances Dee ,
Kay Johnson , and
Reginald Denny
Director:
John Cromwell ,
Lloyd Bacon , and
John Francis Dillon
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ASIN: 6305436339
Release Date: 1999-10-26 |
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In the years before Hollywood submitted to the self-imposed censorship of the Production Code, filmmakers were free to use adultery, prohibition drinking, and sexual double standards to explore the moral complexity of the modern age. Of Human Bondage, John Cromwell's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, is the best-known but perhaps least interesting example in this triple-feature set. Leslie Howard stars as the sensitive would-be artist turned medical student who falls in love with a slutty waitress (Bette Davis, who steals the film with her cold-hearted manipulations and shrill cockney accent), allowing his desire for this vicious little tart to control and almost destroy his life. At a brief 80 minutes, the picture leaves little nourishment between the narrative peaks but is always well-acted and handsomely staged.
Stalwart Joel McCrea is the working-class engineer who marries a spoiled society girl in Kept Husbands. "Dad, I want him more than anything in the world. Can't I have him?" pleads kittenish Dorothy Mackaill, but the tug of war between his work and her play soon tears them apart. Though the plot is sometimes slow, sparkling society wit and humorous working-class platitudes (croaked out by an always entertaining Ned Sparks) add dimension to the familiar story.
Millie, the jewel of the collection, represents everything great about the pre-code era. Sweetly sexy Helen Twelvetrees is Millie, a small-town girl turned big-city woman disillusioned with love, but while she lets the good times roll she never sacrifices her ideals: "I pay my own way," she insists. When a former beau plots to seduce her 16-year-old daughter, however, the worn, sad woman becomes an avenging angel, ready to sacrifice all for the girl. Though highly melodramatic, with adultery and sex to spare, the film drives ahead with wild abandon, with the dynamic Millie centering the drama. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews:
Only one of the three films herein, objectively, could be characterized as well-done, pre-code, and worthy of watching. .......2007-05-12
"Thank God for simple pleasures; a good appetite, roast beef, and beer." that's the moral of "Of Human Bondage." Too bad one has to whether 100+ minutes of one woman playing one man for a fool before the lesson is acknowledged. The Mildred character couldn't be more manipulative herein. Kudos to Bette Davis for the portrayal and Somerset Maugham for writing the book upon which this film is based. It's almost a truism that no film can best its novelistic heritage. One shouldn't be surprised by this. To squeze 300-400 pages of character development into 80-100 minutes of film is almost a task beyond the possible ("The Remains of the Day" comes to mind as both an exceptional book and film; and "Frankenstein" was a fabulous film, but only because it left out half the book).
Somerset Maugham's book "Of Human Bondage" is a ultimately positive parable of how a lack of self-worth sets one up for putting up with too much nonsense. "You're free," one tells Phillip. "Yes," he responds, "but suddenly, suddenly there is nowhere to go. I had to be free to realize that. I had to be free to understand that all those years that I dreamed of escape was because I was limping through life." But even then the character played ably by Leslie Howard betrays the notion that at the end he's not for embracing life's simple pleasures---that which makes life really enjoyable, but for settling for peace and tranquility---not one and the same thing. "I'll see the film because I'll never read the book" may seem logical, but is one that oughtn't be indulged in, I'd posit. If such is your predilection I'd say ignore the book as well as the film. Or see the film if such is your inclination, but certainly don't go out of your way to see it; and if you buy this 3 film set keep in mind that you won't wind up watching "Of Human Bondage" more than once.
Of the collection "Millie" works best as a film. Its story is told from the opposite viewpoint from"Of Human Bondage," by which I mean from the viewpoint of the woman who is endlessly courted by men. Where we see things through the eyes of the sap as played by Leslie Howard in "Of Human Bondage" as Bette Davis manipulates his feelings for her, in "Millie" we have a woman who plays independence in a different manner; not taking anything for anyone...until she winds up losing almost everything. "Millie" is a film that can be re-viewed, but that's not to say it is great cinema.
Then finally we have "Kept Husbands;" the plodding simple story of a rich man's daughter who decides she is going to lasso Joel McCrea's character within a month of meeting him. Soon he becomes a vice-president of 'daddy's' company and a "yes, dear" man to his pampered wife...until he declares that he just can't take it anymore and walks out. Then the wife tries to track him down at his mother's house. "Can you blame him? Who'd stand for being called a---" the spoiled wife bemoans to her mother-in-law . To which the mother-in-law responds: "All husbands are kept. Some of them are kept with money, but most of them with love, devotion, and sacrifice. Why, it's every woman's mission in life, keeping her husband." And having tried keeping him with money ultimately decides it's worth another attempt trying with love. Cheers
Cool movies, but "Of Human Bondage" isn't pre-code.......2006-08-13
The Production Code was official on July 1st, 1934. Of Human Bondage came out later that month.
Dazzling Trip Into our Pre-Code Past!.......2005-05-03
"Millie" and "Kept Husbands," both made in the very early 30s, are both a delight--a journey into America's past when movies were amazingly frank and frisky. "Millie" is the dramatic show-stopper with the legendary Helen Twelvetrees delivering a powerhouse performance. She's Millie, a weepy, naive young woman who marries a jerk and then she falls for another, bigger jerk. She has a baby who grows up to be a beautiful young woman. You watch Millie being used and dumped by more heels and she becomes increasingly bitter and gradually becomes an alcoholic. By this time, Millie has become a bitter, haggard woman who murders the sleazy heel who tries to seduce her daughter. In the courtroom scenes, Twelvetrees looks amazinly like Susan Hayward in her later years and the movie ends rather abruptly. But the scenes of Twelvetrees defending her daughter will stay in your mind, long after the movie has ended. "Kept Husbands,' is a risque, sophisticated drama, beautifully scripted and acted by Joel McCrae and Dorothy Mackail. Both are delightful as the beautiful young couple who marry for all the wrong reasons. Dorothy wants to "keep" her handsome architect all to herself and arranges a In-Name-Only high priced job with her father's construction empire. Joel is finally repulsed of being a kept husband and flees. The two stars are totally delightful. This is the first time I've seen Mackail and in some scenes, she looks exactly like Marion Davies, a close friend. You can't go wrong visiting the past in these two gems of a by-gone era where women were always beautifully gowned and everyone sat around having cocktails, flirting madly with each other and then slinking off into the boudoir.
For the Fans of Pre-Code Hollywood.......2000-10-09
It's refreshing to see some of the pre-code movies make it on to DVD. Granted, if you're looking for high quality sound and resolution, you may be sorely disappointed. "Of Human Bondage" (1934) is taken from W. Somerset Maugham's novel and is directed by John Cromwell. If you have never seen this movie, you have a treat in store for you. Watch as Bette Davis rockets into the spotlight with her immortal line to Leslie Howard "I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair." "Millie" (1931) is a the story of a romance that leads to murder. Starring Helen Twelvetrees and a very young Joan Blondell."Kept Husbands" (1931) had the ads that blazed "Every Inch a Man-Bought Body and Soul by His Wife!" Dorothy Mackaill and Joel McCrea star.They don't call these "The Risque Years" without good reason.
An alright video.......2000-07-11
This video is an "alright" compilation of three pre code films, the video quality is nothing to brag about, though understandable due to the age of the films and the wear on the source material. The sound is acceptable once again with relation to the age of the film. If you are a fan of these films this will probably be the best presentation of them available. If your not a particular fan and just looking for good movies to watch from the thirties I would probably recomend against this one.
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Best Kept Beauty Secrets for Women of Color - "The Makeover"
Manufacturer: CustomFlix
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000EE5SX6
Release Date: 2006-07-13 |
Product Description
Watch and learn as identical twins are made over into two separate, but equally beautiful creations. Conservative for one and dramatic for the other. The instructor gives a hands-on, step by step guide that illustrates various applications from moisterizer to mascara. You'll follow along as we reveal of the best kept beauty secrets for women of color, the "how to" of the makeover. Learn the secrets of the pro's by the pro's to achieve that picture perfect look. This step by step guide is a must have if you're tired of paying for expensive professional makeovers.
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World's Best Kept Secret
Starring:
Talisman
Manufacturer: Super D / Phantom So
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000929VO0
Release Date: 2005-04-05 |
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- Classic Kung-Fu Fighting Movies - Bruce Lee: Fist Of Fear, Touch Of Death / Fists Of Bruce Lee / Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave
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- Come and Get It
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- Count Dracula (BBC Mini-Series)
- Crazy Guy with Super Kung Fu [Region 2]
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The Crowning Touch: Preparing for Beauty Pageant Competition
How to Win Your Crown: A Teen's Guide to Pageant Competition
Universal Beauty: The MISS UNIVERSE Guide to Beauty
Pageant Help DVD 1st Edition
Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide
