Vicious Circle

Vicious Circle


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Dane Cook - Vicious Circle
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • DANEgerously Funny
  • DANE IS FUNNY,BUT HE HAS BEEN FUNNIER!
  • brain ninjas....
  • Amazing
  • Friggin' funny!
Dane Cook - Vicious Circle
Starring: Dane Cook
Director: Marty Callner
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ASIN: B000IU37TS
Release Date: 2006-11-28

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Dane Cook receives a rock star's welcome from a packed arena in this stand-up concert originally broadcast on HBO. But the jury may still be out on whether Cook is phenomenally funny or simply a phenomenon. He is certainly a master of the new media. Cook has savvily marketed himself on the Internet to his target college-age audience, and they have embraced him as a fellow "bro" and "dude," who would seemingly be awesome to party with. In his timbre and physicality, he has the shaggy, likeable quality of Will Farrell, another frat boy favorite. Cook is a man of his people. At one point, he is interrupted by a drunken Boston Red Sox fan who wants to shake his hand. Cook then leaps off the stage and chases him up the aisle to give him a send-off hug, all the while being clapped on the back and offered high and low fives by the cheering audience. Cook comes complete with arrested development lingo, such as "Here's what drove me banana sandwich," that will no doubt be repeated around the dorm.

Don't look to Cook for satirical insights on politics, the war, or even pop culture. His world view is much narrower. In Vicious Circle he expounds on the pleasures and traps of lying, male crying, being sneezed on, his father's robe, bad relationships, and sundry sexual matters that cannot be printed here. Cook takes awhile to get where he's going, but his digressions are often funnier than the pay offs. He puts the brakes on one story during which he mimes driving a car to remark that if he were actually driving this way, he would be all over the road. During other bits, he parses the different spray modes on Windex, and takes the phrase "being cheated on" literally. And it takes some kind of associative genius to compare a certain female body part to a high school stage theatre curtain. The less than well received Employee of the Month aside, Cook is currently king of the comedy hill. Vicious Circle offers a time capsule look at these heady good times for the great Dane. As for where he goes from here, the good news is that Steve Martin once filled arenas like this. The bad news: So did Andrew Dice Clay. --Donald Liebenson

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Superstar comic Dane Cook comes home to Boston in his first-ever solo HBO concert! Performing at the TD Banknorth Garden ?in the round? in front of 18,000 fervent fans, Cook delivers a hilarious, high-energy routine, touching on such universal issues as the therapeutic value of a good lie, the sincerity behind a post-sneeze ?God bless you,? cheating and its value in relationships and the shock and awe of seeing your father?s genitals for the first time. This collector?s edition 2-disc DVD set includes the original 90-minute broadcast version of the concert, and 2-hour DANEgerous extended concert, and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.

DVD Features:
Featurette:Hilarious Behind-the-scenes featurette
Other:Dane Cook's Tourgasm Teaser

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars DANEgerously Funny.......2007-06-24

This wasn't the greatest routine I've ever bared witness too but it was still pretty decent. Dane Cook's style of comedy is a little off the wall, he'll be explaining one story and then dive head first into three more before returning to the one he started previously, so sometimes it's a little hard to follow but if you are able to keep up you wont be able to stop yourself from laughing.

In this concert Cook gives us his hilarious opinions on lying, religion, crime, love, spouse vs. spouse arguments, cheating, one night stands, and much more. The funniest bit of the night, however, was the jizz about the eighty year old couple, I'm not going to spoil it for you but when you hear that line perk up and get ready to roll because that alone was worth the price of this DVD.

If you love stand up, buy this DVD. There are better shows out there, but if you're looking for a laugh this will get the job done.

4 out of 5 stars DANE IS FUNNY,BUT HE HAS BEEN FUNNIER!.......2007-06-24

This guy will never be a George Carlin or Richard Pryor,but he is a funny guy in a goofball kinda way. I thought the stuff on his first CD/DVD release was funnier than this one. It is still an entertaining bit.

5 out of 5 stars brain ninjas...........2007-06-17

.....of course Dane needs to rotate his material a little less frequently....but the flow of this show is brilliant.
The improv with guests coming up to the stage...was fun to watch. I would have preferred more insight back stage/before hand...more of a 'making' of.

Some great pieces though..a good ride...definetly worth the $.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing.......2007-05-13

This DVD is amazing, he hits every joke right on key. Almost all of his material is new, however, if you're a Dane Cook fan, he makes reference to some of his old jokes during new ones, giving even more appreciation to the new joke. It's worth the money.

5 out of 5 stars Friggin' funny!.......2007-05-07

Dane Cook is one of the best comics I've ever heard. This CD is one of best Comedy CD's that I've heard in my entire life. I was rolling with laughter!
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • You won't be disappointed
  • Subtitles?
  • Top-flight writing and acting
  • There is a lot of "there" here... this is possibly the best film you've never seen.
  • Costumes were good.
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh , Campbell Scott , Matthew Broderick , Peter Gallagher , and Jennifer Beals
Director: Alan Rudolph
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ASIN: B000BZN1OQ
Release Date: 2006-09-05

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The press kit's historical notes should be standard issue for anyone who sees Alan Rudolph's (The Moderns, Choose Me) look at the famous intellectuals who dotted New York's finest hour in the 1920s. If you only know the names of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, et al. in passing, this movie will hardly generate more study. These writers and thinkers, most famous for having lunch daily at the Algonquin Hotel, seem as weightless and thin as the fictional ones in The Moderns. Most luminous is Mrs. Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh), whose passion for unhappiness is rarely interrupted. Leigh, in a performance that viewers seem to love or loathe, swirls "witty" dialogue with pure force and must be praised for keeping your interest in a life that was so dreary. The chief problem is not the performances (Campbell Scott is quite fun in a change-of-pace role); it's that the movie comes off as a taped show on stage: the characters are not real and it's all dress-up. Rudolph illustrates his main character's writing (done far too seldom in writers' bios) by having Leigh speak Parker's poetry directly into the camera. --Doug Thomas

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Cigarette smoke and laughter... The hollow clink of martini glasses and biting one-liners... This was the famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table of the 1920's, home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined the heyday of New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect. At the heart of the round table sat Mrs. Dorothy Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh), one of the sharpest, most biting wits of the past century. But beneath the raucous laughter is a darker and richer tale filled with passionate affairs, friendship and tragedy, all captured in this striking masterpiece of unrequited love and self-destructive impulses from acclaimed director Alan Rudolph (The Secret Life of Dentists, Choose Me).

All-Star Cast! Featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female, Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Campbell Scott (The Exorcism of Emily Rose), Matthew Broderick (The Producers, Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Peter Gallagher (TV's The O.C., American Beauty), Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow (The Royal Tenenbaums, Shakespeare in Love), Heather Graham (Boogie Nights, Lost in Space), Jennifer Beals (TV's The L Word, Devil in a Blue Dress), Andrew McCarthy (Weekend at Bernie's, TV's Kingdom Hospital), Wallace Shawn (Clueless, The Princess Bride), Martha Plimpton (Parenthood, 200 Cigarettes), Lili Taylor (High Fidelity, Short Cuts), James LeGros (Living in Oblivion, The Rapture), Nick Cassavetes (Face/Off, director of The Notebook), Stephen Baldwin (Posse, Threesome), Stanley Tucci (Big Night, The Devil Wears Prada), Keith Carradine (Nashville, The Long Riders) and Jon Favreau (Elf, Swingers).

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars You won't be disappointed.......2007-01-15

Critics moaned when Jennifer Jason Leigh was tapped to portray Dorothy Parker, the Grand Lady of Barbed Words whose light shone brightest in the colorful 1920s. And, predictably, many critics trashed Leigh's performance. But, while Leigh made her name making sexy comedies and sexy thrillers, she actually does an excellent job here as the witty wordsmith in "Mrs. Parker & the Vicious Circle." OK, so she played a sexy wordsmith, getting naked with fellow writer Charles MacArthur (Matthew Broderick) for an eye-candy romp. But the sex and nudity, for all its visual appeal, could have hit the cutting-room floor without much being lost from the film. The romance that makes this film worth watching is the romance that never happens: Parker's non-romance with humorist Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott).

Let's face it, Broderick shared top billing with Leigh because he's a name. But it's Scott who deserved it; it's Scott's Benchley who provided an excellent foil for matching wits and barbs with Parker. They were, it seems, the perfect match -- but the film tells us they never consummated for fear of losing what closeness they already had.

Parker, Benchley and, to some extent, MacArthur were part of the Algonquin Round Table, the so-called "vicious circle" of the title, a regular gathering of the luminaries of the writing field back in the good ol' days of Prohibition. And director Alan Rudolph assembled a fine cast to round out the circle: Robert Sherwood (Nick Cassavetes), Edna Ferber (Lili Taylor), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Malcolm Gets), Harold Ross (Sam Robards) and Alexander Woollcott (Tom McGowan), among others, plus occasional cameos by the likes of Will Rogers (Keith Carradine) and a lively Harpo Marx (J.M. Henry).

We get to see them talk and drink at New York's Algonquin Hotel, we get to see them drink and talk at private parties. We also get to see them put on a variety show, the highlight of which is Benchley's fumbling financial report. Occasionally, we see a few of them working, as writers and editors of Vanity Fair and the fledgling New Yorker.

The film plays havoc with chronology, jumping around in the '20s, '30s, '40s and '50s, interspersed with brief scenes of Leigh reciting a few lines of Parker's immortal poetry. But most of the film is set in the '20s, and that's where the real color lies. (To drive that point home, Rudolph had later scenes filmed in black and white, while the early stuff in the '20s is in vivid color.) The Round Table comprised some of the finest literary minds of the age, and the lines popping out of their mouths throughout the film are classic literary gems. The best are traded between Parker and Benchley, who flirt outrageously across the years but never "misbehave" -- with each other, anyway -- like so many of their peers were doing.

Some of the best scenes are shot at the Table, with the camera panning from face to face as they drop lines -- many of which today crowd the pages of any good book of quotations -- with machine-gun rapidity and a surgeon's precision.

Of course, Parker's life wasn't all grins and giggles, and Leigh manages to show us the pain beneath the giddy facade. Parker, like many of her friends, was an alcoholic. She was unlucky in love and kept outliving her beloved dogs. She attempted suicide a few times; the movie shows only once. She was proud, but often too poor to sustain her lifestyle. She survived most of her friends, sank into senility and, despite her wishes, died on a sunny day. She also excelled in a field and an era dominated by men, and her name and writings outlasted the work of many of her male contemporaries.

This isn't a feel-good film by any stretch, but it's not dark and depressing, either. It's a slice of life -- in this case, a slice of several extraordinary lives from a very different time. The dialogue borrows heavily from the characters' actual words, and it's some of the most sparkling dialogue to show up on the big screen in a very long time.

by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(n e t) editor

5 out of 5 stars Subtitles?.......2006-10-20

Does someone know if this DVD has English subtitles or at least closed captioning? Thanks!

4 out of 5 stars Top-flight writing and acting.......2006-10-17

I had owned this film in the VHS version, and it wasn't easy finding the DVD version but finally was able to get it via Amazon.
If you have any interest in the New York literary society of the 1920s; in the writers Dorothy Parker, Charles McArthur, Robert Benchley,Alexander Woolcott, etc; or if you just enjoy watching great acting, you should not be disappointed with this film. Even Harpo Marx (as a character) makes a brief appearance.

5 out of 5 stars There is a lot of "there" here... this is possibly the best film you've never seen........2006-10-02

Simply put, a remarkably well written, well acted, well cast, well directed film about Dorothy Parker, her immediate round circle of friends and their successes and failures in life and art. It is also a portrait of the creative process -- from the emotional lows that generate artistic incentive, to the short lived highs that act like temporary band-aids for writers, painters, etc. It all makes for some real drama and Jennifer Jason Leigh is perfect in this role. She's subtle, and dramatic when need be. Her dialog, her one liners and their delivery might allude you, like the many cameos of famous people of the times, if you don't pay close attention. However, it's worth every minute if you do. To paraphrase Mrs. Parker, there is a lot of there here in this film.

2 out of 5 stars Costumes were good........2006-09-29

Jennifer Jason...Can someone PUHLeeze tell me why she ALWAYS plays the same role! ANd why all of her characters have seriously bad elocution!The so called ~Bostonish...or upper crust--east coast accent does Not include..slurring your words as if a consonant was too much WORK. It as if her upper lip is never engaged at all..Not even to smirk! Does she have a BOTOX complex..USE YOUR FACE..Including your upper lip...
But then again...Maybe she was acting JUST like Dorothy Parker..WHo ahem..happens to be dead..! ( no disrespect intended..)

Jennifer Beals played her little tiny wee part with so much more depth and nuance..WHY didn't she play Parker..I believed her character! Gwyneth..Love her..! Bit part..but she added a much needed warmth to the film..

I cared for one character..And the best part was his bit giving a financial report..I thought that was BRILLIANT..! BRavo..But Mr. Benchley was the most endearing and 3 dimensional character..THANK YOU..

WIll someone Please make this film over..And Do it right..! And don't just call up your buds..for a tupperware party and say..HEY..Lets make a movie..! Dorothy Parker deserves MUCH MUCH better..I can't EVEN imagine the biting remarks she would print..How about.. 'It's all about me..And I hated it..!But the costumes were nice..!
Dane Cook - Vicious Circle [Single Disc Edition] (2006)
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    This Single-Disc Edition is packaged in a standard DVD case and features the 2-hour extended cut, with over 30 minutes of material not seen in the original broadcast version of the concert.
    El Circulo Vicioso (The Vicious Circle)
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    El Circulo Vicioso (The Vicious Circle)
    Starring: Rafael Decena , Félix Solis , Mickey Albuquerque , Frank Molina , and Ali Pérez
    Director: Nelson Peña
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    Release Date: 2006-10-01

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    4 out of 5 stars It's the best dominican movie so far........2006-07-27

    Comment about the movie "The Vicious Circle" (El Circulo Vicioso) 2003 written and directed by Nelson Peña.

    It's the first dominican movie that covers a reality of the dominicans from a very serious point of view. After listening the commentaries by the most highly positioned dominican movie critics, Armando Almanzar and Arturo Rodriguez, I decide to buy this movie, and though it's not in DVD format, but VHS, I bought, watched, and enjoyed fully.

    This is a magnificent approach to the reality of a segment of the Dominican Republic citizens that without any resources decide to go to the United States, and try to conquer a piece of the American Dream, but in a sick way taking the easiest and quickly road to it, selling drugs, and if they need killing other human beings.

    It's the best dominican movie so far. It's the only one that treats the characters from a serious point of view.


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    1 out of 5 stars terrible.......2005-12-09

    I am a Dominican American, and I have to admit this movie sucks. The acting is terrible, and the movie is absolutely not realistic. I would love to see Dominican movies succeed, but this movie is definately not going to get us there. Embarassment.

    4 out of 5 stars I can't wait.......2005-05-12

    This DVD is coming out in 20 years, but I'll wait. It's the best Dominican movie I've seen.

    3 out of 5 stars El Circulo Vicioso.......2004-11-29

    Alot of bad acting, but the movie was entertaining as hell.
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    5 out of 5 stars Great flick.......2002-08-02

    For a first time director i think this is a great film. I researched it because it was done on such a low budget and i am a struggling director myself. Mr. Pena does a great job at protraying the reality of dominican culture in washington hieghts and the bronx. i give this film 5 stars.
    Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • I dont usually write negative reviews, but...
    • Rather Dreary
    • There is a lot of "there" here... this is possibly the best film you've never seen.
    • It is available on DVD.
    • Jennifer Jason Leigh and Campbell Scott are fabulous
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    Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair

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    1 out of 5 stars I dont usually write negative reviews, but..........2007-06-07

    If the non-Algonquin Hotel-initiated person watches this movie they may be forgiven for assuming that the members of the Algonquin Round Table, New York City, c.1920s, were a bunch of decadent, spiteful, boring, witless, well dressed imbeciles who occupied a space at 59 W. 44th St. at most lunchtimes for over a decade.

    If you want to see a Dorothy Parker that makes you want to kill either yourself or her first; if you want to see a Harpo Marx (my absolute comic hero) that should be prescribed Ritalin and a club over the head; or the charming Matthew Broderick fail to revive an expiring movie, then spend your hard earned cash on this. Better still, get Jennifer Jason Leigh whatever is the opposite of Ritalin and charisma lessons.

    I have been to the Algonquin and imbibed its delights, watched the movie/plays of George Kaufman for years, been an avid fan of biting, satirical wit and wordplay most of my life and I say, for a bio-based fun flick of the early 1900s, choose The Man Who Came to Dinner (or even Bambi) over this one.

    3 out of 5 stars Rather Dreary.......2007-02-17

    You can take anyone's life and justifiably make from it whatever story you wish to tell. Why on earth the life of Dorothy Parker was treated so lugubriously mystifies me. The woman was a genius and with her acid wit, eternally quote-worthy quips, and keen eye that saw all-too clearly into the foibles and idiosyncrasies of her age, "Mrs. Parker" deserved better than the treatment she is given in this film. I will give Jennifer Jason Leigh credit for her performance here, and once or twice I thought this movie was almost going to take off, but it never did. Maybe someday someone will do right by Dorothy Parker and make a film that truly celebrates her as she deserves.

    5 out of 5 stars There is a lot of "there" here... this is possibly the best film you've never seen. .......2006-04-24

    Simply put, a remarkably well written, well acted, well cast, well directed film about Dorothy Parker, her immediate round circle of friends and their successes and failures in life and art. It is also a portrait of the creative process -- from the emotional lows that generate artistic incentive, to the short lived highs that act like temporary band-aids for writers, painters, etc. It all makes for some real drama and Jennifer Jason Leigh is perfect in this role. She's subtle, and dramatic when need be. Her dialog, her one liners and their delivery might allude you, like the many cameos of famous people of the times, if you don't pay close attention. However, it's worth every minute if you do. To paraphrase Mrs. Parker, there is a lot of there here in this film.

    5 out of 5 stars It is available on DVD........2006-02-23

    For those of you who are tired of waiting for this to be released on DVD in the US, you can order it from www.amazon.ca. It is available in Canada. It's Region 1, so there's no problem playing it. Of course, your shipping is going to add about $10 to the cost; but I considered it acceptable to pay just over $20 in total to have this on DVD.

    5 out of 5 stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Campbell Scott are fabulous.......2006-02-11

    A beautifully written and visually gorgeous film with wonderful performances.
    Dane Cook - Vicious Circle Gift Set [2DVD + T-Shirt] (2006)
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    4. Dave Attell Insomniac Tour Presents - Sean Rouse, Greg Giraldo & Dane Cook
    5. Dane Cook CD / DVD Bundle: Retaliation & Harmful If Swallowed

    Product Features:
    • "The Boston Cook Party" featurette
    • Tourgasm teaser

    ASIN: B000LCIO3W

    Product Description

    This Collector's Edition 2-disc DVD set comes packaged in a foil embossed slipsleeve with Bonus Dane Cook T-Shirt! Features include the original 90-minute broadcast version of the concert, as well as the never-before-seen 2-hour extended cut.

    Customer Reviews:

    1 out of 5 stars Dane Cook's "Vicious Circle" Is Well Named! Buyer Be Ware!.......2007-01-10

    I bought this dvd gift set for my 16 year old son as a Christmas gift. He absolutely loves Dane Cook. As any good parent would, I watched a few of Dane Cook's stand up comedy routines with him that aired on The Comedy Channel, and while I prefer a different type of humor then this man is known for, I did find him a little funny during certain parts in his comedy routine but he is definitely more for the younger crowd.

    I should have realised when I bought this dvd, that because it was an HBO comedy special, it would be loaded with inappropriate language and inuendos. But because I was so desperate to find that "perfect gift" for my son, I ordered it without giving it too much thought. This man uses the "F" word almost like a second language, and seems to base much of his "comedy" on blatant sexual pantomimes and inuendos, my son being 16 years old, is the only thing that kept me from sending this one back. I am trying to let him make some of his own choices in the music and entertainment dept.

    One of the things that really bothered me about this particular performance, is that he seems to have absolutely no qualms about using blasphemous "comedy" when it comes to religion. Being a very spiritual person myself, I was very upset about this. He seems to harbor some deep resentment about his Catholic background, and seems to derive much of his "comedy" from this resentment, of course this is only by observed opinion.

    This dvd also came with a free t-shirt with the Dane Cook trade mark hand symbol. The t-shirt only came in one size, (small) so I am not at all surprised it was "free." Given this man's language and complete lack of respect for all things spiritual, it should have only come in an extra large!

    I do not want to end this review on a negative note, if you are into this type of humor, then Dane Cook is your man, however I would like to STRONGLY caution parents who are thinking of buying this for their children, especially if they are under the age of 16 to be ware!

    As always, Amazon shipped this to me in record time and in excellent condition. I plan on going through them often for future purchases, but I will definitely do my homework better pryer to buying.
    Vicious Circle
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      Vicious Circle
      Starring: Susan K. Brigham , David Akin , Mark Gluckman , Bradley Gregg , and Samantha Dunn
      Director: Scott Farrell
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      Vicious Circle
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        Vicious Circle
        Starring: Susan K. Brigham , David Akin , Mark Gluckman , Bradley Gregg , and Samantha Dunn
        Director: Scott Farrell
        Manufacturer: York Home Video
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        Release Date: 2002-09-17
        Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle (2 pack) Original Motion Picture SoundTrack CD
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          Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle (2 pack) Original Motion Picture SoundTrack CD

          ProductGroup: DVD
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          ASIN: B000FRPFH6

          Product Description

          Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

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          5. Stephen's Test of Faith-DVD
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          7. Millions
          8. Jessie Ventura Story
          9. Devils' Sleep
          10. Bells of Coronado/Sons of the Pioneers

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