Showing titles in Entertainment & Performing Arts

Director David Fishelson transforms Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot into spellbinding drama that illuminates both titanic novels. In The Brothers Karamazov, the passionate brothers spring to life, led by their roué of a father ¿ who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. The men have plenty to fight over, including the alluring Grushenka.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then let Britain's best-loved storytellers take you through some of their funniest, strangest, and most embarrassing moments in this rib-tickling collection. From Sir Ranulph Fiennes' adventures in the Special Forces and Barry Norman's encounter with the Iron Duke, to Dickie Bird's brush with the monarchy and Donald Sinden's brush with the law, these stories will make you laugh and make you think.

Seven years in the making and meticulously researched - Gabler is the first writer to be given complete access to the Disney archives - this is the full story of a man whose work left an ineradicable brand on our culture but whose life has largely been enshrouded in myth.

She saved virtually every letter her father wrote to her between 1938, when she was 11 years old, and 1967, and Groucho Marx's letters to his daughter, Miriam, show an extraordinary father-daughter relationship.

Meat eaters: La Wanda's cookin' for you. But you better have good teeth, because no tenderizer is used in this album. It's raw and tough, through and through. The lady you see playing Aunt Esther on Redd Foxx's Sanford and Son has a whole 'nuther side...and mercy, what a side it is! She's standing before a swinging congregation giving a sermon the way it t-i-s!

Girls Gone Raunchy is a compilation of songs by Virginia Ham, exotic dancer and Doctor of Musicology. While attending the University of Louisiana, she financed her education by headlining at Johnny's Jugs Emporium, a local gentleman's club. Virginia also did extensive research on the Uti Uti tribe in the South Pacific. Dr. Ham noted the natives would sing humorous ditties while cavorting like bunnies to the erotic beats being played by young, naked, pubescent boys.

Guaranteed Fresh is 100 percent all new material and the third comedy recording from Suzanne Westenhoefer.

Comedian Heidi Joyce's Stand-Up Against Domestic Violence, a comedy benefit to fight domestic violence, features an all-star line-up of America's brightest and funniest women, with all proceeds benefiting the National Network Against Domestic Violence and other domestic violence charities across the country.

Kate Clinton is perhaps America's brightest political comedian. Her agenda includes political material, savvy send-ups of modern family relationships, and illuminating perspectives on life as a gay American.

Fore! Dozens and dozens of the raunchiest, funniest jokes you've ever heard!

La Wanda is more than a match for any man, with a double-bladed tongue that tears off piece after piece of fantastic laugh-loaded comedy. Recorded live and in bed, the action is sometimes frantic. The audience participation gets out of hand, and Pipe Layin' Dan can't lay it down fast enough to please all the performers and spectators till La Wanda joins in.

Margaret Smith, winner of the Ninth Annual American Comedy award for Best Stand-Up Comic, Female, in 1994, makes dysfunctional family life the backbone of her act. "Deadpan delivery", "blank-faced", and "funny" sums up her dark humor. She is one child out of six in a demented, dysfunctional Middle American family. But she contends that all families are dysfunctional in some way or another.

The Sexy, Funny, Bastard has arrived! Mystro Clark went from college student, to comedian, to chemical weapons officer in Desert Storm, to the star of his own network TV show, The Newz. His career has been one wild ride!

This hard-hitting, in-your-face collection of material gets right to the heart of the matter with each and every track. Born in the backwoods of Albany, Georgia, and educated on the mean streets of South Central L.A., Toomer brings a world-weary outlook to the topics facing us all. He exposes the hypocrisy of celebrity idol worship, lays bare the intricacies of our relationships, and pulls no punches when discussing our faiths and religions.

Marquez the Greatest (known on Planet Comedy as King of the Underground) began as a seed planted in the fertile streets of Los Angeles. He began smoking stand-up comedy with one goal in mind ¿ to make people laugh. But it has evolved into hilarious, philosophical blunts through which the pain of life generally, and his life specifically, is turned into the chronic high of laughter.

E.L.'s talents have been showcased by such venues as BET's Comicview, HBO's Def Jam All-Stars, The Laugh Factory, The Improv, and The Comedy Store. He's also been seen on the widescreen in Mo' Money, Mad Dog and Glory, Folks, and the controversial film Losing Isaiah.

The meek lamb has not turned into a roaring lioness...except...on those occasions when she feels the necessity of "straightenin' out the world" with some "sane advice".

After 30 years of biker bars, strip clubs, and seedy roadhouses, the raunchy barroom songs of Dick Grande have emerged as beloved anthems of barflies and truckers all over the world. What's surprising is the underground swell of bootlegged copies that have popped up in the panty drawers of upper-class housewives and the demurest of debutantes. Not only have these insidious ditties infiltrated the common man, but they have also reached the pinnacle of political culture.

The birth of "Ernie G." came in March of 1996 with Ernesto Tomas Gritzewsky's first pro gig at the "Eastside Comedy Jam" in Alhambra, California. He then became a "Latino Comedy Night" regular at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood and appeared at his first Latino Comedy Olympics show at the World Famous Improv. After 20 weeks of playing to standing-room-only crowds, Ernie moved on to the Comedy Store.

After several years on the comedy circuit, and landing television appearances on Saturday Night Live and performing with Second City in Chicago (Brett hates name dropping, so we won't mention his stints on Law and Order, Comedy Central, and Commander USA, just to not name a few), Brett learned that you should try and perform to the highest level of your intelligence and go beyond that to your audience's level. (Yeah, right!)