Dr. T & the Women

Starring:Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Tara Reid, Kate Hudson, Liv Tyler, Robert Hays, Matt Malloy, Andy Richter, Lee Grant, Janine Turner, Holly Pelham, Jeanne Evans, Ramsey Williams, Dorothy Deavers, Ellen F. Locy, Cameron Cobb, Zane Michael Scott
Director: Robert Altman
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

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Loose-limbed and casual even for a Robert Altman movie, Dr. T & the Women has a sly, offhanded wit that makes up for its ramshackle structure. Richard Gere's eponymous gynecologist seems the model of success: his office is packed daily with the cream of Dallas's society matrons clamoring for an appointment, his home life is blessed with loving wife Farrah Fawcett and daughters Tara Reid and Kate Hudson, and when he needs a break from the estrogen congestion there are always weekends to be spent with his trio of hunting buddies. But on a trip to the mall to shop for Hudson's upcoming nuptials, Fawcett strips naked and leaps about in a waterfall. Her subsequent incarceration in a mental hospital (she's diagnosed with the fictional "Hestia complex," suffering from receiving too much affection) along with the ongoing preparations for the wedding barely make a dent in Gere's charming, compassionate demeanor. Then his golf course hires a new female pro who's everything the other women in his life are not--independent, self-confident, Helen Hunt--and Dr. T finds himself with yet another woman to love. Though the minor characters are mostly nasty little caricatures, the film is not the bitter misogynistic rant its detractors claim it is; the problems in Dr. T's life are placed squarely on his own inability to see that women don't need his genteel protection, and Gere perfectly captures this sweet yet condescending blind spot. --Bruce Reid

Roving Mars [Blu-ray]
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Starring: Robert Manning , George Butler , Paul Newman , Steve Squyres , and Dr. Charles Elachi
Director: George Butler
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ASIN: B000PY311Q
Release Date: 2007-07-31

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When you consider the odds against success, the achievements on glorious display in Roving Mars are almost miraculous. This excellent IMAX production follows the familiar IMAX format; at 40 minutes in length, it's not as wide-ranging as other documentaries might be, but in chronicling the design, launch, and successful landings of NASA's robotic Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, it offers an unprecedented level of visual splendor, highlighted by amazingly accurate computer-animated depictions of what really happened when the rovers arrived at their destination. Financed by Disney, and combining the talents of veteran IMAX director George Butler and top-ranking Hollywood producer Frank Marshall (best known for his frequent collaborations with Steven Spielberg), this celebration of science and technology begins with a raspy introduction narrated by Paul Newman (who had recently voiced the character of "Doc" in Disney/Pixar's Cars), then dives right into the formidable challenge of launching and landing the rovers on time and budget, with a looming deadline of optimal Mars/Earth orbital alignment occurring only once every 26 months.

At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, we see highly skilled engineers addressing every challenge and every possible contingency, and project leader Steve Squyers serves as our informative host and enthusiastic populist for space exploration. After launching in June and July of 2003, the rovers traveled for seven months and 300 million miles to Mars, landing on the red planet in January 2004. Every aspect of the mission is covered in concise detail, and tension escalates as touch-down (achieved with the now-familiar "bouncing balloon" landing system) draws near. What's most remarkable, even to the crew at JPL, is that Spirit and Opportunity succeeded far beyond their mission expectations, becoming one of NASA's most triumphant achievements in interplanetary exploration. The photos, chemical analyses, and other data gathered on Mars were intended to prove the past existence of water on Mars (and hence the possibility of life), and in this and many other respects, Roving Mars stands as a breathtaking tribute to the men, women, and robots who've given us a greater understanding of the planetary system we call home. --Jeff Shannon

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Roving Mars is accompanied by two excellent bonus features. First up is "Mars: Past, Present, and Future," a 25-minute "making of" featurette that provides additional educational detail about our closest planetary neighbor, along with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with key personnel at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Then comes the 50-minute featurette "Mars and Beyond," originally broadcast in 1957 as an episode of Walt Disney's popular Disneyland TV show. Typical of that series, it's a wildly imaginative, cleverly animated look at Mars and its significance in the history of mankind. Even after more than half a century, it's filled with scientific and speculative details that are sure to engage anyone's sense of wonder. --Jeff Shannon

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Action. Drama. Anticipation. Exultation. Experience it all as you join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet. Through the eyes of these two intrepid, death-defying rovers, and with NASA scientists and engineers at your side, you'll see Mars in a way no one ever has before. You'll feel what it is like to stand on the startling surface of the planet that's intrigued mankind for eons. And you'll uncover its ultimate mystery: Is there life on Mars? Roving Mars - it's the ride of a lifetime.

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The Grinch (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Christine Baranski , Jim Carrey , David Costabile , Michael Dahlen , and Josh Ryan Evans
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ASIN: B00005LOUP
Release Date: 2001-11-20

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Under a thick carpet of green-dyed yak fur and wonderfully expressive Rick Baker makeup, Jim Carrey is up to all of his old tricks (and some nifty new ones) in this live-action movie of Dr. Seuss's holiday classic. He commands the title role with equal parts madness, mayhem, pathos, and improvisational genius, channeling Grinchness through his own screen persona so smoothly that fans of both Carrey and Dr. Seuss will be thoroughly satisfied. Adding to the fun is a perfectly pitched back-story sequence (accompanied by Anthony Hopkins's narration) that explains how the Grinch came to hate Christmas, with a heart "two sizes too small." Ron Howard proves a fine choice for the director's chair with a keen balance of comedy, sentiment, and light-hearted Seussian whimsy. Production designer Michael Corenblith gloriously realizes the wackiness of Whoville architecture, and his rendition of the Grinch's Mt. Crumpit lair is a marvel of cartoonish, subterranean grime. Then there's Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen), the thoughtful imp who rallies her village to recapture the pure spirit of Christmas and melts the gift-stealing Grinch's cold, cold heart. You've even got a dog (the Grinch's good-natured mongrel, Max) who's been perfectly cast, so what's not to like about this dazzling yuletide movie? The production gets a bit overwhelmed by its own ambition, and the citizens of Whoville (including Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Molly Shannon, and Bill Irwin) pale in comparison to Carrey's inspired lunacy, but who cares? If a movie can unleash Jim Carrey at his finest, revamp the Grinch story, and still pay tribute to the legacy of Dr. Seuss, you can bet it qualifies as rousing entertainment. (Ages 5 and older.) --Jeff Shannon

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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Starring: Peter Lind Hayes , Mary Healy , Hans Conried , Tommy Rettig , and John Heasley
Director: Roy Rowland
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Release Date: 2001-04-24

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Bart: I don't think the piano is my instrument.
Dr. Terwilliker: What other instruments are there, pray tell? Scratchy violins, screechy piccolos, nauseating trumpets, et cetera, et cetera?

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Discipline: Teaching Limits with Love
Starring: Dr. T. Berry Brazelton; Rob Reiner
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Release Date: 2005-05-01

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Hosted by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton

Renowned child development expert Dr. T. Berry Brazelton shows parents that a firm but gentle approach is best for discipline of young children, and demonstrates practical techniques to set effective limits from the start. He explains why children actually look for limits and how the limits children learn in their first few years can build a foundation for the rest of their lives. Dr. Brazelton also offers advice and tips to help parents and caregivers manage their own emotions and avoid using physical punishment.

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Title aside, we'll never see the likes of Tupac Shakur again. The late rap superstar was a complex, contradictory figure and, throughout the course of this riveting documentary, it's as if he's back in our world again. Produced by his mother, former Black Panther Afeni Shakur, Tupac Resurrection isn't so much "biased" as it's subjective. In the MTV film, accompanied by a book and soundtrack, director Lauren Lazin looks at Tupac's short, full life from beginning to end and doesn't avoid the dark times--the arrests, the shootings--but she does tend to emphasize the positive over the negative. More to the point, the narration comes from Tupac himself, smoothly edited from countless interviews, so we're constantly getting his take on events. He's more thoughtful and articulate than his detractors might expect (despite the profanity), but the contradictions remain, making this essential viewing for even the most casual of fans. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews:

Do you live in Europe?.......2007-05-14
I bought this DVD just to find out it was the wrong format- Cannot play it here in Europe. Anyway, since I was looking so much forward to seeing this movie, I ended up buying another copy here. The movie is great so buy it, yes, but remember to varify the format first. And I have no problem with the service from Amazon- its great!
"They say it's the white man I should fear/But it's my own kind doing all the killing here...".......2007-02-03
This is a great documentary that lets Tupac speak for himself through his own eloquent words, his own testimony on his life, views, message, all of it the foundation of his legacy. His existence, brief though it was, makes for an engrossing story that is at times greatly disturbing, at others just as captivating. It's always tragic when an artist with so much talent dies far too soon, and as intended Tupac's senseless murder casts a shadow over the entirety of Resurrection. That infamous last photograph of him looking back through the car window as he's leaving the Las Vegas casino moments before his fatal shooting should haunt anyone. At least a hundred songs written and never recorded? A mere twenty-five years on planet earth? Although I'm inviting criticism by saying this, I'll never understand a culture of violence that strikes at the brightest and most charismatic among its own.
immense talent, wasted life.......2007-01-25
In this documentary Tupac Shakur--gangsta rapper, movie star, rape convict, and murder victim--narrates the story of his own life and work. And what a work, with 36 million albums sold (most of them since his death in 1996 at the age of 25), and 150 songs still unrecorded. As I watched this film I moved through successive waves of fascination, even admiration, empathy, and then anger and revulsion. Born to a crack-addicted mom who was in prison when she was pregnant with Tupac, with no father around, Tupac insisted that he spoke for the many hopeless people he grew up with who were trapped in chronic unemployment, police brutality, hunger, poverty and racism. Just as the news media shocked viewers into the horrors of Vietnam with their gruesome images, so, Tupac insisted, he was only chronicling the ghetto "war zone" most Americans would otherwise never see: "All my songs deal with the pain I experienced in childhood." But you know you have big problems when your own community censures you, including the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Dionne Warwick. With his trash-talking vulgarity, misogynist lyrics, and rage, Tupac made himself an easy target. In his better moments he admitted he was "young and dumb." In the end, you can only lament the self-destructive life and tragic death of an immensely talented artist.
Excellent Movie, but my DVD had a malfunction.......2006-11-08
The movie is excellent, but the version I received has some type of malfunction. There's one selection that when selected is un viewable. But the movie itself is excellent.
TUPAC IS TALKING TO YOU!.......2006-10-09
Tupac fan or not, this film will affect you by the end. It takes you on a deep mental trip through this man's life from beginning to end. Yet, unlike most music documentaries, Tupac narrates this film himself. Using hundreds of old interviews, both on film and also audio recordings. He tells his own story, his own way. The film starts off showing the journey of Tupac's Car through the Las Vegas streets the night he was shot to death. While you watch this a song is playing, one of the last songs he would ever do. It is so ironic because it is talking about what actually happend to him that night. "Multiple gun shots fill the block, the fun stops. Nigga's call the cops... people shot, nobody stops. I wonder when the world stopped caring last night." Tupac's mother Afenia, produced this film and put all her heart and soul into making it happen. God bless her for having the strength to do so. Tupac tells his story of growing up poor and without a father to lean on. Growing up in a community with more drugs on the streets than food on the table. You get to understand the man behind the music alot more. Tupac was like most of us, angel and devil rolled into one. In the public eye, Tupac was seen by many as a thug and a evil man but he was also the same man that recorded songs like "Dear Mama, Keep Your Head Up and Brenda's Got A Baby." These songs showed his emotional side and a real deep concern for the future of the youth. However, Tupac also got caught up in the angry, gangster life style of rap music once he became famous. He even admitts that in the film. "I was immature and my ego was out of control. I did and said alot of stupid things I wish I could take back." One of the most chilling scenes in the film was the first time Tupac got shot five times in New York at a recording studio in 1995. This is what started the East Coast/West Coast war in the rap music. The film inter-cuts perfectly the two stories of the shooting. Tupac's version of what happend and the Biggie Smalls/Puff Daddy version. No, they don't match up. Tupac went to the grave thinking they did set him up that night. Once you see this, it's up to you to decide for yourself. All in all, this is a fantastic documentay of a very talented music artist and brings it to you on a very human level.

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"They say it's the white man I should fear/But it's my own kind doing all the killing here..."

immense talent, wasted life

Excellent Movie, but my DVD had a malfunction

TUPAC IS TALKING TO YOU!

Tupac - Resurrection (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Tupac Shakur , Paul Stanley (II) , Bokeem Woodbine , Connie Chung , and Chris Connelly
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Title aside, we'll never see the likes of Tupac Shakur again. The late rap superstar was a complex, contradictory figure and, throughout the course of this riveting documentary, it's as if he's back in our world again. Produced by his mother, former Black Panther Afeni Shakur, Tupac Resurrection isn't so much "biased" as it's subjective. In the MTV film, accompanied by a book and soundtrack, director Lauren Lazin looks at Tupac's short, full life from beginning to end and doesn't avoid the dark times--the arrests, the shootings--but she does tend to emphasize the positive over the negative. More to the point, the narration comes from Tupac himself, smoothly edited from countless interviews, so we're constantly getting his take on events. He's more thoughtful and articulate than his detractors might expect (despite the profanity), but the contradictions remain, making this essential viewing for even the most casual of fans. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews:

Do you live in Europe?.......2007-05-14
I bought this DVD just to find out it was the wrong format- Cannot play it here in Europe. Anyway, since I was looking so much forward to seeing this movie, I ended up buying another copy here. The movie is great so buy it, yes, but remember to varify the format first. And I have no problem with the service from Amazon- its great!
"They say it's the white man I should fear/But it's my own kind doing all the killing here...".......2007-02-03
This is a great documentary that lets Tupac speak for himself through his own eloquent words, his own testimony on his life, views, message, all of it the foundation of his legacy. His existence, brief though it was, makes for an engrossing story that is at times greatly disturbing, at others just as captivating. It's always tragic when an artist with so much talent dies far too soon, and as intended Tupac's senseless murder casts a shadow over the entirety of Resurrection. That infamous last photograph of him looking back through the car window as he's leaving the Las Vegas casino moments before his fatal shooting should haunt anyone. At least a hundred songs written and never recorded? A mere twenty-five years on planet earth? Although I'm inviting criticism by saying this, I'll never understand a culture of violence that strikes at the brightest and most charismatic among its own.
immense talent, wasted life.......2007-01-25
In this documentary Tupac Shakur--gangsta rapper, movie star, rape convict, and murder victim--narrates the story of his own life and work. And what a work, with 36 million albums sold (most of them since his death in 1996 at the age of 25), and 150 songs still unrecorded. As I watched this film I moved through successive waves of fascination, even admiration, empathy, and then anger and revulsion. Born to a crack-addicted mom who was in prison when she was pregnant with Tupac, with no father around, Tupac insisted that he spoke for the many hopeless people he grew up with who were trapped in chronic unemployment, police brutality, hunger, poverty and racism. Just as the news media shocked viewers into the horrors of Vietnam with their gruesome images, so, Tupac insisted, he was only chronicling the ghetto "war zone" most Americans would otherwise never see: "All my songs deal with the pain I experienced in childhood." But you know you have big problems when your own community censures you, including the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Dionne Warwick. With his trash-talking vulgarity, misogynist lyrics, and rage, Tupac made himself an easy target. In his better moments he admitted he was "young and dumb." In the end, you can only lament the self-destructive life and tragic death of an immensely talented artist.
Excellent Movie, but my DVD had a malfunction.......2006-11-08
The movie is excellent, but the version I received has some type of malfunction. There's one selection that when selected is un viewable. But the movie itself is excellent.
TUPAC IS TALKING TO YOU!.......2006-10-09
Tupac fan or not, this film will affect you by the end. It takes you on a deep mental trip through this man's life from beginning to end. Yet, unlike most music documentaries, Tupac narrates this film himself. Using hundreds of old interviews, both on film and also audio recordings. He tells his own story, his own way. The film starts off showing the journey of Tupac's Car through the Las Vegas streets the night he was shot to death. While you watch this a song is playing, one of the last songs he would ever do. It is so ironic because it is talking about what actually happend to him that night. "Multiple gun shots fill the block, the fun stops. Nigga's call the cops... people shot, nobody stops. I wonder when the world stopped caring last night." Tupac's mother Afenia, produced this film and put all her heart and soul into making it happen. God bless her for having the strength to do so. Tupac tells his story of growing up poor and without a father to lean on. Growing up in a community with more drugs on the streets than food on the table. You get to understand the man behind the music alot more. Tupac was like most of us, angel and devil rolled into one. In the public eye, Tupac was seen by many as a thug and a evil man but he was also the same man that recorded songs like "Dear Mama, Keep Your Head Up and Brenda's Got A Baby." These songs showed his emotional side and a real deep concern for the future of the youth. However, Tupac also got caught up in the angry, gangster life style of rap music once he became famous. He even admitts that in the film. "I was immature and my ego was out of control. I did and said alot of stupid things I wish I could take back." One of the most chilling scenes in the film was the first time Tupac got shot five times in New York at a recording studio in 1995. This is what started the East Coast/West Coast war in the rap music. The film inter-cuts perfectly the two stories of the shooting. Tupac's version of what happend and the Biggie Smalls/Puff Daddy version. No, they don't match up. Tupac went to the grave thinking they did set him up that night. Once you see this, it's up to you to decide for yourself. All in all, this is a fantastic documentay of a very talented music artist and brings it to you on a very human level.

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Another Entertaining Movie from Robert Altman

not to bright

Not a bad flick

Not good

Another Mess

Dr. T & The Women
Starring: Richard Gere , Helen Hunt , Farrah Fawcett , Laura Dern , and Shelley Long
Director: Robert Altman
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Release Date: 2001-11-20

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Loose-limbed and casual even for a Robert Altman movie, Dr. T & the Women has a sly, offhanded wit that makes up for its ramshackle structure. Richard Gere's eponymous gynecologist seems the model of success: his office is packed daily with the cream of Dallas's society matrons clamoring for an appointment, his home life is blessed with loving wife Farrah Fawcett and daughters Tara Reid and Kate Hudson, and when he needs a break from the estrogen congestion there are always weekends to be spent with his trio of hunting buddies. But on a trip to the mall to shop for Hudson's upcoming nuptials, Fawcett strips naked and leaps about in a waterfall. Her subsequent incarceration in a mental hospital (she's diagnosed with the fictional "Hestia complex," suffering from receiving too much affection) along with the ongoing preparations for the wedding barely make a dent in Gere's charming, compassionate demeanor. Then his golf course hires a new female pro who's everything the other women in his life are not--independent, self-confident, Helen Hunt--and Dr. T finds himself with yet another woman to love. Though the minor characters are mostly nasty little caricatures, the film is not the bitter misogynistic rant its detractors claim it is; the problems in Dr. T's life are placed squarely on his own inability to see that women don't need his genteel protection, and Gere perfectly captures this sweet yet condescending blind spot. --Bruce Reid
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Another Entertaining Movie from Robert Altman.......2006-07-14
I've seen several of Robert Altman's movies (MASH, Popeye, Gosford Park, Nashville, A Prairie Home Companion, The Player) and have enjoyed them. Dr. T & The Women is no exception. I really enjoyed Richard Gere's character and empathized with him throughout. The ending is strange (like Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia", as others have pointed out), but I would rather have that ending than something depressing. I want to see more of Altman's movies after watching this one.
not to bright.......2006-06-03
ok, the movie isnt too bad, but why would you charge $33 for something you can get for $5 in new condition at Walmart? You rip ppl off, your not to smart, and the ppl that buy it are just retarded!
Not a bad flick.......2006-04-14
I really don't know what all the hype is about. This movie is not as bad as these reviewers are protraying it. It is a bit slow at first but I found it quite funny. You people need to get a sense of humour. The only surprise was the graphic child birth scene. It was a bit too much in that respect. I would recommend seeing the movie, especially if you're a Richard Gere fan like I am.
Not good.......2005-11-07
I wonder why Richard Gere accepts these roles in movies with no plots and sense. I just watched on TV because there was nothing better, I can't belive that actresses like Liv Tyler are on these movies, she has talent to make better movies. I want somebody to explain me the movie.
Another Mess.......2005-08-19
One can make comparisons between this movie and "Ready to Wear," another Altman disaster. They are both too busy, too pointless, too ridiculous, and too awful.

In one scene in "Dr. T and the Women," one of the doctor's daughters comes in his office, which is hectic and busy all day, and wants a few minutes to tell him his other daughter is a lesbian. Any child who had grown up with a physician father, or any father with a hectic, high pressure job, would know better than to go to his work place and ask for a few minutes to drop a bomb on him. They would choose the weekend, or at the very least, a week night to have a heart-to-heart. If you're going to make a big mess of a movie, at least have it be realistic.

With the great cast, you would think no way this film COULD be bad. This movie is so bad its almost unbelievable. Like another reviewer said, its not even funny bad. Its just bad.

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African American Lives
Starring: Henry Louis Gates , T.D. Jakes , Mae C. Jemison , Quincy Jones , and Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Director: Jesse Sweet , Leslie D. Farrell , Graham Judd , and Leslie Asako Gladsjo
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Release Date: 2006-05-02

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Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. DuBois professor of the Humanities and chair of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, takes Alex Haley's Roots saga to a whole new level. Using genealogy and DNA science, Dr. Gates tells the personal stories of eight accomplished African Americans, tracing their roots through American history and back to Africa. Participants include Dr. Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Dr. Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Chris Tucker and Oprah Winfrey.

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Dr. Chen's Tai Chi for Beginners

Manufacturer: Crystal Tai Chi Studio
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Ten Big Nos:

NO learning curves! NO confusion! NO interruption! NO frustration!

NO time to waste,even a single minute! NO lengthy explanation! NO memory needed!

NO turning around! NO big space needed!

YOU will be up and runing in NO time!!!

ASIN: B000OV0ELK

Product Description
This exercise was concisely designed by David Chen, Ph.D. in Exercise Science. Dr. Chen has been studying and working on teaching and teacher education in Eastern and Western exercise and fitness fields for over 20 years. Dr. Chen fully understands the difficulties and frustrations that Western students have had in learning Eastern exercise styles like Tai Chi and Qigong systerms. To help more Western people who are interested in Chinese style exercises fully enjoy the beauty and benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong practice IMMEDIATELY, Dr. Chen has been developing viewer-friendly, easy, safe, enjoyable and effective exercise routines for various populations. All of these exercise routines were carefully designed by following safety rules, professional teaching guidelines, human learning characteristics, and principles in traditional Chinese medicine and modern exercise science. These exercises also reflect the harmony of the combination of Eastern and Western exercise philosophies and techniques. This video is the easy and simplified version of Yang style, designed for beginners who want to learn the basic and common forms, and at same time maintain a gentle, safe and effective daily workout routine. All the demonstrations by Dr. Chen are mirrored so that learners can follow him and go through the whole routine without trouble. The whole set of movements are well balanced between left and right so learners can get even development of their fitness. Each individual form demonstration is repeated 3 times so that learners memory can be reinforced and learners receive quick learning result. The last part is 16-minute workout routine with breathing cues by combining multiple learned sets so that learners can have a complete body-mind workout after learning those basic forms. This video is designed for home practice and does not require much space (about 4 x 4 square feet). for more info and testimonials visit: ctaichi.com
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