Lynda Carter's Special (1980)
Жанр : музыка, телевизионный фильм
Время выполнения : 50М
Директор : Stan Harris
Краткое содержание
Lynda Carter's first musical TV special.
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!
Джон Малэйни и его приятели-подростки занимаются экзистенциальными темами для всех возрастов с помощью броских песен, комедийных зарисовок и специальных гостей в ностальгическом разнообразии.
Миссис Лора Хендерсон не собирается проводить остаток дней за игрой в бридж. Она покупает театр Уиндмилл в Вест-Энде и, заручившись поддержкой неизвестного импресарио Вивиана Ван Дама, превращает его в место, где лондонцы могут забыть о бесконечных бомбежках гитлеровской авиации. Неутомимая миссис Хендерсон добивается от лорда Кромера разрешения на нечто, прежде невиданное: ее актрисы будут выступать обнаженными…
Illusionist Derren Brown concocts a psychological experiment in which he tries to manipulate an ordinary person into taking a bullet for a stranger.
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Skinny Legend features the classic Trixie variety show stylings her fans love from her performances. Don’t be fooled by her Disney on Acid aesthetic – these jokes are not for the faint of heart.
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
Join Kacey Musgraves for a holiday variety show featuring new songs, time-honored classics, and a rotating cast of celebrity friends.
The Divine Miss M is featured in a concert filmed at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, at the culmination of her most recent cross-country tour which was known as "De Tour". This live recording was a combination of footage from both September 10 and 11, 1983. Set against a Renaissance art background and outfitted in a rainbow array of costumes, Midler sings and performs her uninhibited stage antics.
The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Christmas: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know» that was narrated by Gene Kelly and hosted by Bing's widow, Kathryn Crosby. The program itself features clips from fifteen of Bing's classic television specials, concentrating on the period from the early 1960s onwards when he included Kathryn and their three children in the programs.
Назван по месту расположения радиоцентра, откуда транслировались передачи радиомеханического ТВ системы "Cine-Radio". Едва ли не самый первый в мире телевизионный фильм.
In 1977, Bette Midler's first television special premiered, featuring guest stars Dustin Hoffman and Emmett Kelly. It went on to win Bette her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Special — Comedy-Variety or Music. To make the show palatable to home viewers, the special featured heavily cleaned up versions of the material Midler was performing at that time on stage. The title of the show, Ol' Red Hair is Back, was a takeoff on the title of Frank Sinatra's recent album Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back.
Chris rocked SNL for three seasons-here are his greatest bits, featuring Nat X, Luther Campbell, I'm Chillin'" and more. Special guests include Sinbad, Michael J. Fox and George Wendt. 1999/color/71 min/NR/fullscreen.
Таинственная женщина стреляет в звезду Бродвея Джинни Уокер, после чего загадочным образом исчезает. Джинни не пострадала и вскоре признается друзьям, что это был рекламный трюк, а роль незнакомки сыграла ее подруга. Гас Крейн (глава рекламного агентства, с которым сотрудничает Джинни) в восхищении от ее поступка, но его сын не одобряет подобных методов. Но вскоре Гас уезжает в отпуск и, к негодованию своего сына, оставляет Джинни распоряжаться фирмой, и теперь молодым людям приходится вместе осуществлять безрассудные идеи обворожительной звезды...
Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
Naima Wifstrand, leading old lady, dressed as a Primadonna presents the variety revue "The Old, Happy 40's", a dark time of angst, depression and derailed, wild happiness. Those were the days. Music, dance, songs and hillarious sketches follow.
Diva Las Vegas was a show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas starring Bette Midler performing as singer and comedian. The one-time performance was filmed for television; HBO released it as a TV special originally broadcast on January 18, 1997 and repeated on February 2, 1997. Midler won the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for the special. Among the songs performed were The Rose, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, From A Distance, Friends, Wind Beneath My Wings, Stay With Me and Do You Want To Dance?. Bette's daughter Sophie von Haselberg appeared for a short time during the song "Ukulele Lady". She sat with the rest of the cast and musicians on stage playing a ukulele and singing the words.
A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his fiancé that he may have to postpone their honeymoon, she goes off on him, and as he backs away from her he hits his head on a fire extinguisher and knocks himself out. While unconscious he dreams his own version of the show he's trying so hard to sell.
Maya Rudolph's take on the variety show special with guest stars in the vein of the Carol Burnett Show.