Doris Day Collection, The - Doris Day

Advantages: Six Doris Day movies - what more can i say?!
Disadvantages: It doesn't include Calamity Jane

...This box set is purely for fans of Doris Day! It contains six of Doris' best films: Young At Heart (1955)- musical with Frank Sinatra. A dramatic musical - fantastic songs and performances by Doris & Frank! Lover Come Back (1961)- some of Doris Day's best films are those in which she starred with the gorgeous Rock Hudson. Doris and Rock play business rivals who can't help falling for each other. The Thrill of it all (1963) - Romatic and funny musical starring Doris Day and James Garner. Doris Day becomes a commercial star, much to the disliking of her husband. Send me no Flowers (1964) - Doris plays Judy Kimbal, wife of George (Rock Hudson). George thinks he is dying and starts to make plans for his wife's future. However, Judy finds out and thinks he's having an affair!! This is a great comedy full... Read review

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Advantages: Entertaining, fun, Doris Day .
Disadvantages: Not the greatest or deepest movie ever made !

...NOTE : I submitted this review earlier today and some of you rated it, but it never appeared in my list of reviews and has now disappeared from the list of latest reviews. So I guess something went wrong. So here it is again... *sigh* SEND ME NO FLOWERS I have been a fan of Doris Day for as long as I can remember. From being about seven, Calamity Jane was one of my favourite films and I would go around singing the songs. As a teenager, I bought cassettes of her singing and later went on to watch as many of her films as I could. Now in 2005, I have just bought The Doris Day Collection on DVD, 6 discs with a film on each and thought I'd review one of these films - Send Me No Flowers. One of the good things about the collection is that each DVD is self-contained in its own box - which is just as well, as the box of the whole set is... Read review

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Advantages: It's Bowie
Disadvantages: None come to mind

...Ken Scott (who had worked on the previous album T.M.W.S.T.W. as the engineer he had done the same duties for the late Gus Dudgeon on productions for Elton John). The only part-time member of Bowie's band was pianist Rick Wakeman, who nearly quit the band he was in at the time called "The Strawbs" to tour with Bowie in the end Wakeman turned down the offer. (Rick Wakeman had appeared playing keyboards on the "Space Oddity" single and album in 1969) "Hunky Dory" was recorded at Trident Studios in London with the "Actor" (Bowie) assisting Ken Scott with the production. For this collection of songs Bowie had acquired a more melodic style after the hard rock of the recording before and is in fact is one of the more conventional recordings in his back catalogue. The sound of Rick Wakeman's piano and Ronson and Bowie's acoustic guitar... Read review

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