Richard Dean Anderson Books

The bad news first: this is NOT in widescreen.

Aside from that, (and the fact it's not available on DVD), this is an AWESOME movie for Dragnet fans. That is, for fans of the ORIGINAL Dragnet (1951). Joe Friday is a little bit rougher than the clean-cut model of decency who crossed the TV screen in the late 1960s. Here we have a tough, hard-hitting crime fighter who is not afraid to push some serious boundaries to get the job done (and it's stuff you could NEVER get away with today). But - no spoiling! - you've got to see it to believe it.

A bonus for those who grew up seeing the broadcast TV version is that this is a COMPLETE version (there were several scenes cut from the broadcast version - some of which are critical to the plot). But once again - no spoiling - you'll have to see it yourself.

A definite must-have for the hard core Dragnet fan!

The bad news first: this is NOT in widescreen.

Aside from that, (and the fact it's not available on DVD), this is an AWESOME movie for Dragnet fans. That is, for fans of the ORIGINAL Dragnet (1951). Joe Friday is a little bit rougher than the clean-cut model of decency who crossed the TV screen in the late 1960s. Here we have a tough, hard-hitting crime fighter who is not afraid to push some serious boundaries to get the job done (and it's stuff you could NEVER get away with today). But - no spoiling! - you've got to see it to believe it.

A bonus for those who grew up seeing the broadcast TV version is that this is a COMPLETE version (there were several scenes cut from the broadcast version - some of which are critical to the plot). But once again - no spoiling - you'll have to see it yourself.

A definite must-have for the hard core Dragnet fan!

The 1956 version of 'The Ten Commandments' is easily one of the most popular films in Hollywood history, eclipsing even Ben-Hur. (Let the protests begin!) Charlton Heston won his only Oscar for his performance in Ben-Hur, but it is in his role as Moses where he clearly had the most defining and remarkable performance of his distinguished career. I've seen the film countless times and couldn't recommend it more enthusiastically. Interestingly, Demille's first go at this story during the silent era is a tremendous curiosity and quite a puzzling oddity. The first half of the film presents a fairly generic although competent survey of the Moses/Exodus story, but only when the film abruptly segues into a modern day morality play involving two brothers, does the actual head scratching begin. Unfortunately, this part of the film was meant to be the heart and soul of Demille's picture, but it amounts to some kind of strange ham fisted unintentional parody of such odious transparency and bludgeoning obviousness that I found myself chuckling and shrugging throughout. It's actually difficult to review this film objectively because I still appreciate Demille's attempt here to really say something, however much a failure it may have been. Fortunately, he quite thouroughly redeemed himself with the '56 remake.

We watched this movie around Easter and decided to get it. We are very happy with the versions that are included. A good movie to have on hand when you want to watch it.

I bought this to add to my collection of Charlton Heston movies. I had seen it many times on television. An outstanding performance!

Product is excellent as all items I have purchase from Amazon. I shop around for the best value and Amazon is still Tops.

For many people Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 remake of his own THE TEN COMMANDMENTS is so iconic it practically defines the Hollywood movie as much as any picture (with the possible exception of GONE WITH THE WIND). Even more than fifty years later it's capable of giving tremendous pleasure despite its incredible length (three hours and thirty-nine minutes) and its style which was extremely anachronistic even for the time. DeMille, who had forever made his name as one of the most important and powerful directors of the silent era, directs his actors as if they still were in the silents, so their gestures and poses are big and their emotions even bigger. Probably the most fun for contemporary audiences is Anne Baxter as the Throne Princess Nefretiri, who gets to deliver all kinds of howlers to Charlton Heston as Moses ("You will be king of Egypt and I will be your footstool!"), but pretty much everyone involved seems to be having a grand old time. Particularly fun are Yul Brynner as a haughty Pharaoh Ramses, Nina Foch as the kindly Princess Bithia, Edward G. Robinson in his bizarre role as Dathan the evil Hebrew governor, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the old pharaoh Seti.

And then there's the spectacle, which every DeMille movie promises and on which he did not skimp in this film. One of DeMille's specialties was the presentation of the more salacious aspects of sinfulness, and so we have no less than two extended sequences with dancing girls, not to mention Baxter's diaphanous gowns and Brynner and Heston and John Derek (as a Douglas Fairbanks-like Joshua) wearing practically nothing on their chests for large periods of the film. There's also the killing of the firstborn of Egypt, the staining of the Nile, and pillar of fire, the Golden Calf and a very impressive parting of the Red Sea (the most famous of the film's sequences). Heston seems stranger and stranger as the film progresses, with even wilder wigs, but all this seems in keeping with the entire tone of the thing. Even when you laugh at it you can't help but be impressed.

This fiftieth-anniversary edition adds DeMille's long missing introduction to his own film plus long musical sequences for the overture and the entr'acte; it also comes with his original 1923 version (which is extremely different, with sections set in the contemporary period for the time much like Griffith's INTOLERANCE).

As you I go along developing my web app, this book answers most of my questions, fexample, how to unload/load your application when you want to unload your dll from the application and vice versa. Before finding the answer in this book, I just rebooted the server. Along the way, it always answers my question to perplexing problems that I stumble upon, i.e why isn't my web app preserved the session id.

I have to admit that this is not a book that I would read on spare time. I don't know whether it's the flow of the structure or what. But I always get lost in the "too much" information supplied. Hence I cannot give it 5 stars.

For reference, this is a book to keep if you're developing ASP for one reason; as you become more comfortable with ASP, this book provides answers to your "no-more" beginner questions.

This book covers most of topic you may need. So, you can use it as a reference on ASP3. But it is not for beginner or for studying from a ground. It is quite hard-to-read, not explained in-depth, and it made me quite ???.

A bit outdated now with .Net, but I still get this ol' book out once in a while.

If this book had nothing more than the asptable component in chapter 16, it would still be worth the extremely high price of all wrox press books. But the book has so many useful examples that you can build on.

My only experience has been a few intranets. And I always had bought the beginners series books because I didn't feel I was at the professional level. Well, this book showed me the reason I felt that way was because I didn't know the power of ASP.

If you have been playing around with ASP and really want to move forward, stop playing with the beginners and harness the power of ASP.

Obsolete??? Hardly. As I write this review, new Web page technologies are being matured: jsp, php, chm (yech). New models are being matured: Servlets, STRUTS, .NET. Classical ASP 3.0 is still quick, fast and necessary for small to medium businesses, even enterprise-level webpages. There's no better book to learn all the standards, applications, basics, and advanced capabilities of ASP than THIS book.

I love Wrox. I started with their Beginning ASP 2.0 book (how I learned). This book, a bit more advanced but in the beginning level, is still all you need to get things going from single tiered applications to multi-tiered, database driven apps. It goes into COM objects and other MS Services like Index. Really a one-stop book.

With this book and Google you have all the reference you need.

Note: ASP 3.0 is in no way, shape, or form similar to ASP.net.

A small, tiny complaint about this book is that it can be a bit wordy...just a tad. And the index in the back could use a bit more improvement. The info's still in there.

The Babe is a great baseball movie with a few flaws, mostly in the embellishment of the true facts, but it's miles better than the 1948 movie with William Bendix as the Babe. John Goodman gives his all as he portrays Babe Ruth, a man who enjoyed life a little too much. Other strong performances are given by Kelly McGillis, James Cromwell & Bruce Boxleitner. I recommend this film.

John Goodman's role is so realistic that I thought I was seeing the Babe many times! He is outstanding in his role as Babe Ruth. Hollywoood liberties, sure ...... but an excellent story and a look at an Baseball hero ........... A must for baseball fans.

A highly enjoyable baseball movie. John Goodman give a good potrayal of the famous slugger.From his rookie year with the Boston Red Sox,the New York Yankees,and his retirement from the Boston Braves.Watch how he responds to a bad call from the plate umpire,saying he ought to get his eyes and ears checked.Babe Ruth was a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox,and in his last year with the Boston Braves,but played outfield with the New York Yankess.Now maybe the film exaggerates the antics of Ruth, but Goodman's potrayal makes them beliveable.

Babe Ruth was the original rock star. The man who's name became synonomis with $$$ right from the start, and the fast paced, take no B.S. lifestyle. He was one of the coolest cats around, and this movie shows it all!
Alot of people say that the story is innacurate, and to that I say "AW Banana oil!" This movie is the tops. There's only one other movie about the Babe, and that one had him stepping into a dark dingy bar and ordering a milk! Babe Ruth didn't drink no milk. John Goodmans portrayal, if not completely accurate, is at least a lot of fun, and from what I know (I never met the guy in person-did you?) is pretty spot on.
The Babe partied every night of the week, and usually strolled into the game sometime around the second inning to sock one out of the park. He'd smoke a few cigars in the dugout, and usually had a mug of beer waiting for him at home plate. Nobody told The Babe what to do, because he owned. The guy pretty much paid everybodys salary in the day, and is still pretty much the reason why those jerk off Yankees still have so much dough.
He was an animal on and off the field. Just ask the dames that hung all over him. He had two smoking wives.. one a small town waitress, and the other a sexy Zigfield follie (aint that the dream?)
Yeah he had to overcome some serious struggles in life, but don't we all? The guy exuberated a good time, for the folks, and especially the kids, for whom he had the biggest heart in the world... And he told fart jokes at fancy dinners!

Great lines...
"What do you think of Mary for a name if we have a girl?"
"I think I need a 20 ounce steak, is what I think."

This movie rules. Check it out.

Be advised that after 45 minutes of the movie my 8 year-old son and I gave up. Goodman seems to have been given the license to "go for broke" with a "larger than life" approach, that leaves little for the viewer to consider of Ruth's actual life. With the broadest of strokes, Goodman plays Ruth self-consciously; the mis-en-scenes are without any surprises and Hollywood-predictable.

Too little was shown to give us the sense of Ruth-as-athlete and the milieu of early 20th century baseball, a fascinating story that awaited telling but missed the opportunity here.

It's been over 24 hours and my video is still only 32% downloaded. This is the absolute worst program I've evr used.

As a StarGate SG1 fan from day one, it was heartbreaking to see the series come to an end, but they couldn't have ended on a higher note. This episode is absolutely wonderful - touching, exciting, and sad. I loved it. The effects are absolutely stunning. Full scale movie quality stuff. Best ever. Sniff!!

What a morose way to end such a fun series. I always said that if they ever began taking this show seriously, it would come to a bad end, and I was right. It's like, we're ending the season with no sense of humor. In fact, we're gonna off the Asgard by letting them commit mass suicide and then we're going to spring a Greek tragedy on poor T'ealc. This show succeeded through its sense of humor (why else watch a show where everyone within three galaxies all speak 21st century English? Duh!). Now it fades into oblivion without any sense of fulfillment. What a shame. Maybe that's why this season is going for $29! I'd rather buy two copies of Season 1! How do I pick zero stars?

C'mon you got to be kidding me! I really felt the Asgard, of all the races on the show, should not have been the ones to get killed off the show. They were my favorite! I believe they had so much to offer.Im glad its over because I couldnt watch any future episodes without the Asgard there to help out.Thor is the man! Im gonna miss those guys. Kewl finale though.

While I thought the idea of the Asgard giving Earth all of its knowledge and technology unrealistic, including the idea that the Ori could track its "energy signature", I did enjoy seeing the characters grow old together. Only complaint is seeing the series end. Can't wait for the movies.

It's one of my son's favorite movies. We've worn out the video tape, destroyed a disc and absolutely had to have another one. We've already watched it 5 times since it arrived a month ago. I'm more of "The Hours" type of movie watcher, but I love watching this one with my son. Action, monsters, chases, and pyrotechnics--it has it all. Oh yeah--- it's also a love story. Like I said, it has it all.

We usually only buy movies we are willing to watch over and over again. This is one of those movies.

Yeah, this was an awesome movie. Good special effects, and I do love Matthew Broderick.

It's hysterical how the 1 and 5 star reviews are nearly equal on this pile of trash. Not that I expect anything else, as I believe 85%+ of people are idiots. The even split simply means that all of the 15% as well as 2 out of 5 idiots found this film to be the garbage that it is. That means the 4 and 5 star rating are from the dumbest of the dumb. And if that means you, please stop apologizing for bad films by saying dumb things like 'it's a popcorn movie' (popcorn isn't stupid) and 'why look for deep meaning in a film with with a giant lizard?'. This only proves how little thought these viewers use. The original 'Gojira' film had the giant lizard, too, and the whole story was an alegory on the threat of nuclear weapons. This one is an alegory on P.T.Barnum's most famous phrase (look it up). There is no reason an effects-laden action film can't also have some thought involved. Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich are overpaid putzes producing 'junk movies' for the braindead that walk among us. Lowest common denominator product. The rest of us expect more for our $10. This one insults you right to your face, and you thank them for it?

This American reimagining to the 1954 masterpiece has amazing CGI effects, but that doesn't make it good. Instead of Godzilla we get a giant CGI iguana running around New York city, who's only purpose is to lay eggs and not destroy buildings. Even when Godzilla makes his/her's first appearance he/she still doesn't still anything and Godzilla has lost all it's power which means godzilla can't kill people with atomic breath all this tuna head can do is runaway from the military,because it knows it's weak. Anyways enough about the giant iguana in the movie nobody seems to be surpise or scared that a gigantic iguana is attacking NYC everyone acts like it's a normal thing. Can you see why everyone hates this movie and also somewhere in the middle of the movie Godzilla's egg hatches a bunch of mini Godzilla's start running around chasing the main characters just because they smelled like fish, right there everyone should know that the director tried to rip off Jurassic Park. Godzilla's babies even looked like the raptures in the movie.

Before I finish this review I going to say that not even the plot made sense,because in the movie Godzilla is a mutated iguana which is a reptile, but Mathew Brodrick's character keeps saying it's an anphibian throughout the whole movie even though it's an iguana.

1 out of 5

We usually only buy movies we are willing to watch over and over again. This is one of those movies.

Yeah, this was an awesome movie. Good special effects, and I do love Matthew Broderick.

I enjoyed Godzilla 1998 during it's initial movie theater run. Yeah, I too was a little surprised by the new look of the creature, but I was sure glad it didn't look like a guy in an overstuffed rubber suit using the tail to rock back and forth on his heels...I'll leave that to the Godzilla purists who are much better at suspending disbelief. Don't get me wrong, I thought the original Godzilla movie was great, but I was five years old at the time!

Godzilla 1998 was scheduled for a late March 2008 release on Blu-ray, and then Sony postponed it with a TBA. I think it will look fantastic in High-Def...if or when it ever gets here.

It's hysterical how the 1 and 5 star reviews are nearly equal on this pile of trash. Not that I expect anything else, as I believe 85%+ of people are idiots. The even split simply means that all of the 15% as well as 2 out of 5 idiots found this film to be the garbage that it is. That means the 4 and 5 star rating are from the dumbest of the dumb. And if that means you, please stop apologizing for bad films by saying dumb things like 'it's a popcorn movie' (popcorn isn't stupid) and 'why look for deep meaning in a film with with a giant lizard?'. This only proves how little thought these viewers use. The original 'Gojira' film had the giant lizard, too, and the whole story was an alegory on the threat of nuclear weapons. This one is an alegory on P.T.Barnum's most famous phrase (look it up). There is no reason an effects-laden action film can't also have some thought involved. Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich are overpaid putzes producing 'junk movies' for the braindead that walk among us. Lowest common denominator product. The rest of us expect more for our $10. This one insults you right to your face, and you thank them for it?

This American reimagining to the 1954 masterpiece has amazing CGI effects, but that doesn't make it good. Instead of Godzilla we get a giant CGI iguana running around New York city, who's only purpose is to lay eggs and not destroy buildings. Even when Godzilla makes his/her's first appearance he/she still doesn't still anything and Godzilla has lost all it's power which means godzilla can't kill people with atomic breath all this tuna head can do is runaway from the military,because it knows it's weak. Anyways enough about the giant iguana in the movie nobody seems to be surpise or scared that a gigantic iguana is attacking NYC everyone acts like it's a normal thing. Can you see why everyone hates this movie and also somewhere in the middle of the movie Godzilla's egg hatches a bunch of mini Godzilla's start running around chasing the main characters just because they smelled like fish, right there everyone should know that the director tried to rip off Jurassic Park. Godzilla's babies even looked like the raptures in the movie.

Before I finish this review I going to say that not even the plot made sense,because in the movie Godzilla is a mutated iguana which is a reptile, but Mathew Brodrick's character keeps saying it's an anphibian throughout the whole movie even though it's an iguana.

1 out of 5

Wow, you used a knitting needle to replace the pin on your clutch? great story.

This book is awful.

This book should be titled "What Would Anyone with a Single Shred of Common Sense Do in the Most Common and Stupid Scenarios Anyone Has Ever Heard of?"

This book is awful. If you are expecting stories of people using some gum, a paperclip, and a fruit bowl to build a ski boat, save your money. If you want to learn how to smoke dope through a potato, this is more your speed. The author of this book should be truly ashamed of himself. Each useless anecdote is worse than the last.

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. IT REALLY IS AS BAD AS THE OTHER REVIEWERS CLAIM. I figured that since I usually disagree with most people when it comes to reviews, I would give it shot. This is one instance where the public is correct. Avoid this one.

What would MacGyver do? He would have written a book that does not make people want to vomit over the money spent and time lost reading it!

This was a quick fun read. It's not a how-to for breaking out of a Colombian jail with a chopstick and some orange peels, but it has some very entertaining stories. I'd suggest it for any fan of the show that wants a similar form of amusement. MacGyver was awesome. this book does him justice...

I picked up this book on a whim, thinking it might be as cheesy as the MacGyver on tv, but I was pleasantly surprised that I found one of the most entertaining books I have ever read. The creativity of the people profiled in this book truly amazes me, and now I have some good ideas if I ever get myself into a situation a little tough to get out of. This book tells the stories of the REAL MacGuyvers of the world, and I can't wait to try out some of my own new ideas sparked by the funny tales in this book. I would highly recommend it for some light, entertaining (and possibly educational) reading!

This was a fun read. The book is a little short, and some of the stories stretch to qualify as MacGyver moments. but all said a fun way to spend a few hours.