Sammy Run

Over 90 minutes of incredible talent - new footage and extended performances featuring: Louis Armstrong, Lucille Ball, The Beatles, James Brown, The Doors, Ella Fitzgerald, Jackson 5, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, The Supremes, Topo Gigio and many more! In its 23-year run, The Ed Sullivan Show presented an incredible array of over 10,000 performers, including the most spectacular ensemble of stars in show business. From over 1,000 hours of classic television, THE VERY BEST OF THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW brings you some of the biggest names in comedy, Broadway, variety, rock and pop captured LIVE in the prime of their careers. This retrospective special originally aired on CBS to huge numbers (#2 highest rated special that year, second only to the Oscar® telecast). Hosted by Carol Burnett.

This is a peculiar project. The title suggests that it's the latest collection of traditional spirituals done country style (Alan Jackson, what hath thou wrought?), which it isn't. The artists' credit of "George Jones and Friends" suggests that it's another tribute in which the master and acolytes collaborate on duets, which they don't. Actually, the spirited "Beer Run" features Jones and Garth Brooks trading verses, but the title cut, which Jones sings himself, represents his only other appearance here. The rest features artists who are mainly past their commercial prime singing songs that Jones made his own. The best performances are by those who know they can't sound like Jones and don't try, like Vince Gill's luminous "She Thinks I Still Care" and Pam Tillis's tender reading of "Take Me." Much of the rest sounds like George Jones Karaoke Night, with Mark Chesnutt, Joe Diffie, Tracy Lawrence, and Sammy Kershaw all taking their best shots. It should be against the law for anyone but Jones to sing "He Stopped Loving Her Today"; Kershaw's tortured rendition sounds like he's still shaking off the dentist's Novocain. --Don McLeese

"God's Country" George Jones & Friends "God's Country" is the first brand new song recorded by George Jones in years. George Jones has just turned 75 years young and many of George's friends who are also country music's biggest stars have gathered to celebrate this milestone for this living country legend. Stars like Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Pam Tillis, Joe Diffie, Sammy Kershaw, Tanya Tucker and more all on one great album singing the biggest hits from Jone's 50 year career in country music. Category 5 Records has also produced a Documentary DVD of the 'behind the scenes' making of the album which is included in the same package with the CD. a MUST have for any George Jones and country music fan.

Like The Gumball Rally (1976) before it, former stuntman Hal Needham's The Cannonball Run was inspired by the same real-life cross-country road race. If The Gumball Rally was the critical favorite, The Cannonball Run was the box-office favorite (spawning the almost-as-successful sequel, Cannonball Run II, a few years later). Aside from top-billed stars Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise (stars of Needham's Smokey and the Bandit series) plus Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. (as horny priests), the movie features many of the same actors (Bert Convy, Jamie Farr) that could be found on a typical '80s episode of The Love Boat (along with the same caliber of writing). But as the tagline notes, "You'll never guess who wins"--and it's true. As in most road-race movies, it's the journey that counts, not the destination. This particular journey includes cool cars (like Adrienne Barbeau's black Lamborghini), crazed bikers (led by Peter "Easy Rider" Fonda), hot martial arts action (from Jackie Chan as a Japanese racecar driver), a conspicuously braless Farrah Fawcett (recipient of a Golden Raspberry nomination for her performance), and possibly the most egregious use of product placement featured in a movie up until that time (one vehicle has "GMC Trucks" noted prominently along the top of the windshield, another has "Hawaiian Tropic" painted on the hood). As with many of the films Jackie Chan has made for Golden Harvest, the Hong Kong-based production company behind The Cannonball Run, wacky outtakes are included during the closing credits. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

"You gotta be kidding me!" shouts one exuberant sportscaster after the other in this exciting recap of the year that Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa both eclipsed the age-old home-run record of 61 set by Roger Maris in 1961. Half an hour into this video, you can't help but notice that there simply aren't enough adjectives to describe the superlative achievements of these two baseball titans. Not even the cherub-like Bob Costas can relate just how incredible this year was for baseball and for the American people who cherish this sport. As political figureheads featured prominently in the news in 1998 for their sordid exploits, McGwire and Sosa produced a wonderful, spellbinding drama of their own that caught the heart and imagination of the entire nation. This, however, is not just a documentary of hit after monstrous hit: intermingled throughout are touching interviews with the sons of Roger Maris, the teammates of both Sosa and McGwire, and an insightful moment with former Yankee Mickey Mantle. For those who have a love or even a passing interest in this sport, they will be moved to see what humble appreciation both players and managers have for the magical history for the game of baseball. This in itself puts into perspective what was achieved by these two heroes and ambassadors for our time, two men who remind you what sport and competition should be all about: the love of the game. --Jeremy Storey

McFARLANE BARRY BONDS COMMEMORATIVE 756 HOME RUN FIGURE "There's a swing and a high fly ball, right-center field...back it goes...racing back Logan jumping up and that ball is gone! Number 756! Barry Bonds stands alone! And on the night of August 7th, 2007 in San Francisco, California, Barry Lamar Bonds has hit more home runs than any major leaguer in the history of baseball." A massive swing, a devastated baseball, a thousand flashbulbs and a trip around the bases brought Barry Bonds' career full circle as he touched home plate and became the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball history. Bonds' 756th homer moved him one ahead of Hall of Famer Hank Aaron on the career home run list

1998 - Equity Sports - Headliner XL - Sammy Sosa Commemorative Figure - 66 Home Runs - Display Case - Original Box is rough, with wear and bends - Display case has no top - Limited edition - Collectible

Headliners XL "LINKED TOGETHER IN HISTORY" Mark McGuire & Sammy Sosa Home Run Commemorative 2-Pack. Special Commermorative Collector's Base Included. Includes Certificate of Authenticity. Originally released in 1999. Ages 4+

1998 Edition - Kenner - Starting Lineup - MLB - Home Run History - Sammy Sosa #21 - Chicago Cubs - Vintage Action Figure - Includes Exclusive Trading Card - Mint in Package - Small dent in bubble - Out of Production - Retired - Limited Edition - Collectible

2000 Fleer Tradition Glossy #2 Mark McGwire / Sammy Sosa / Chipper Jones (NL Home Run LL / League Leaders) (Baseball Cards)

What Makes Sammy Run?Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our times—from the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go-getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world. And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that makes these people tick. What makes them run?This is the question Schulberg has asked himself, and the answer is the first novel written with the indignation that only a young writer with talent and ideals could concentrate into a manuscript. It is the story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York’s East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic—his congenital incapacity for friendship.An older and more experienced novelist might have tempered his story and, in so doing, destroyed one of its outstanding qualities. Compromise would mar the portrait of Sammy Glick. Schulberg has etched it in pure vitriol, and dissected his victim with a precision that is almost frightening.When a fragment of this book appeared as a short story in a national magazine, Schulberg was surprised at the number of letters he received from people convinced they knew Sammy Glick’s real name. But speculation as to his real identity would be utterly fruitless, for Sammy is a composite picture of a loud and spectacular minority bitterly resented by the many decent and sincere artists who are trying honestly to realize the measureless potentialities of motion pictures. To this group belongs Schulberg himself, who has not only worked as a screen writer since his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1936, but has spent his life, literally, in the heart of the motion-picture colony. In the course of finding out what makes Sammy run (an operation in which the reader is spared none of the grue-some details) Schulberg has poured out everything he has felt about that place. The result is a book which the publishers not only believe to be the most honest ever written about Hollywood, but a penetrating study of one kind of twentieth-century success that is peculiar to no single race of people or walk of life.From the Hardcover edition.