Pour me a video: it's too darn hot outside, so take off that wet bathing suit and slip into some fun summer DVDs.Summer fluffin', had me a blast Sometimes all that poolside sunning makes your brain hurt, and you just need something deliciously dopey. The one DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. you must buy this summer, no matter what, is the flat-out-bonkers Showgirls: The VIP Edition(MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. Home Video), paying appropriate homage to the greatest movie of the '90s. And if you haven't seen the disco-musical-biblical-allegory disaster The Apple (MGM Home Video) yet, hurry up and jump on the bandwagon for what promises to be the next midnight movie sensation. Also worth seeking out: The Raquel Welch Collection, featuring Myra Breckinridge, One Million Years B.C., Fathom, Bandolero! and Mother, Jugs & Speed (Fox Home Entertainment); Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Taste the BIood of Dracula, and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (all Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. ); Dallas: Season One (Warner Home Video); Roller Boogie (MGM Home Video). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Keep it gay Whether or not you hit one of the many lesbian and gay film festivals going on around the country, you can have your own at home with the sexy Leaving Metropolis (Wolfe Home Video); the Mexican family drama The City of No Limits (Fox Home Entertainment); and the lesbian softball romance Maggie & Annie (Culture Q Connection). Queer filmmaker John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust(Paramount Home Video) makes its DVD premiere this summer, along with Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys (Warner Home Video) and Richard Glatzer's Grief(TLA (Three Letter Acronym) The epitome of acronyms! While two-, four- and five-letter acronyms exist, there are more three-letter acronyms. Obviously, three words to describe a concept or product is the most popular. TLA - Three-Letter Acronym Video). (And if you missed The Secret Lives of Dentists (Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment), an excellent film with a script by Longtime Companion's Craig Lucas, this is the perfect time to catch it.) Also worth seeking out: The Wedding Banquet (MGM Home Entertainment); Connie and Carla (Universal Home Video); Six Feet Under: The Complete Second Season (HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy Video); The Dreamers (Fox Home Entertainment); The Lesbian Romance Collection and The Best of Gay Britain (both from First Run Features); Cock & Bull Story (Wolfe Home Video); Punks director Patrik-Ian Polk's Noah'sArc (TSBB TSBB Table Sharing Bulletin Board Productions); and faves The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Gifts in Love and Love! Valour! Compassion! (both New Line Home Entertainment). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cher and Cher alike Every time you turn around, there she is this summer in The Very Best of Cher: The Video Hits Collection (Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is internationally known as WEA International Inc. ), not to mention her hooty '60s movies Good times and Chastity (both MGM Home Video). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Documentary and docudrama Leaven leaven (lĕv`ən), agent used to raise bread or other flour foods. Physical leavens include water vapor, which is released as steam at high temperatures (as in popovers), and air, which is incorporated by beating. the media's recent gushing gush v. gushed, gush·ing, gush·es v.intr. 1. To flow forth suddenly in great volume: water gushing from a hydrant. 2. over the passing of Ronald Reagan with the powerful and controversial movie The Reagans (Lions Gate Home Video), complete with the deleted scenes that made network execs so nervous. Out directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman get the full DVD treatment on three of their most notable titles, The Times of Harvey Milk, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, an d Where Are We? (all New Yorker Video). Also worth seeking out: Monster and Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer serial killer Forensic psychiatry A person who commits serial murders Prototypic SK White ♂ age 30; 97% are ♂; 80% are sociopaths. See Dahmer, Depraved heart murder, Ice Man. Cf Megan's law, Son of Sam law. (both Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment); the "ex-gay" expose One Nation Under God (First Run Features); and Same Sex Parents (Picture This! Home Video). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Light it up If you're not already a fan of this hilarious gay-inclusive improv sitcom, then Reno 911! The Complete First Season (Paramount Home Video) is must viewing, along with collections of two other classic TV shows, Gilmore Girls: The Complete First Season (Warner Home Video) and SCTV SCTV Second City Television SCTV Slow Scan Television SCTV Sea Cadet Training Vessel (Canada) SCTV Separation and Control Test Vehicle Volume 1 (Shout! Factory). While you're waiting for the big Pee-wee's Playhouse DVD release this fall, you can salve salve (sav) ointment. salve n. An analgesic or medicinal ointment. salve v. salve ointment. your P.W. Herman jones with Back to the Beach and Big Top Pee-wee (both Paramount Home Video). Nathan Lane gave a delightful voice performance in the little-seen Disney cartoon Teacher's Pat (Buena Vista Home Video), and if you can't find laughs in Smile (MGM Home Video) or Sealab 2021: Season 1 (Warner Home Video), then, sorry, you're just not someone I want to know. Also worth seeking out: Sex and the City: Season Six, Part One (HBO Video); The Pink Panther Film Collection (MGM Home Entertainment); Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Buena Vista Home Video); The Munsters: The Complete First Season(Warner Home Video); The Dame Edna Experience: The Complete Series One(BBC Video). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Reality, such as it is Couldn't get enough heavily edited nonfiction, er, reality TV the first time? DVD producers feel your pain, giving you a second chance to indulge in the very gay Boy Meats Boy,. The Complete Season One(New Video), Gay Weddings (Bravo/NBC Home Entertainment), Survivor: The Complete First Season (CBS/Paramount Home Video), and Fire Island(Win Media). |
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