Christina Aguilera makes her dramatic feature debut as Ali a small-town singer who takes her shot at stardom performing at a neo-burlesque nightclub in Los Angeles Situated in a regal old theater that's still dazzling despite having fallen into disrepair The Burlesque Lounge is the kind of club where legends are born When club owner Tess (Cher) hires charismatic Ali as a cocktail waitress the ambitious big-city newcomer goes to great lengths to make a good impression Taken under the wing of a friendly featured dancer (Julianne Hough) Ali quickly realizes that not everyone is quite as nice when she forms a friendship with bartenderaspiring musician Jack (Cam Gigandet) & incurs the wrath of the club's cattiest showgirl (Kristen Bell) After making her leap to the stage with a little help from a sympathetic stage manager (Stanley Tucci) & the club's playfully androgynous host (Alan Cumming) Ali becomes the star attraction at The Burlesque Lounge & the crowds start packing in Later a wealthy businessman (Eric Dane) makes a bid for the club while trying to charm the talented young performer straight into his arms ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship & an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess the club&s proprietor & headliner Burlesque&s outrageous costumes & bold choreography enrapture the young ingenue who vows to perform there one day Soon enough Ali builds a friendship with a featured dancer finds an enemy in a troubled jealous performer & garners the affection of Jack a bartender & fellow musician With the help of a sharp-witted stage manager & gender-bending host Ali makes her way from the bar to the stage Her spectacular voice restores The Burlesque Lounge to its former glory though not before a charismatic entrepreneur arrives with an enticing proposal ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship & an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess the club&s proprietor & headliner Burlesque&s outrageous costumes & bold choreography enrapture the young ingenue who vows to perform there one day Soon enough Ali builds a friendship with a featured dancer finds an enemy in a troubled jealous performer & garners the affection of Jack a bartender & fellow musician With the help of a sharp-witted stage manager & gender-bending host Ali makes her way from the bar to the stage Her spectacular voice restores The Burlesque Lounge to its former glory though not before a charismatic entrepreneur arrives with an enticing proposal ...

A humorous yet poignant personal account of one woman's struggle to free herself from severe mental illness & claim her sexual identity 200 pages Sapphira ...

'A first-rate popular history of a fascinating & neglected battle James Holland is a master of spinning narrative military history from accounts of men & women who were there & BURMA '44 is a veritable page-turner' BBC History In February 1944 a rag-tag collection of clerks drivers doctors muleteers & other base troops stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen & a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army & then defeat them in what was one of the most astonishing battles of the Second World War What became know as The Defence of the Admin Box fought amongst the paddy fields & jungle of Northern Arakan over a fifteen-day period turned the battle for Burma Not only was it the first decisive victory for British troops against the Japanese more significantly it demonstrated how the Japanese could be defeated The lessons learned in this tiny & otherwise insignificant corner of the Far East set up the campaign in Burma that would follow as General Slim's Fourteenth Army finally turned defeat into victory Burma '44 is a tale of incredible drama As gripping as the story of Rorke's drift as momentous as the battle for the Ardennes the Admin Box was a triumph of human grit & heroism & remains one of the most significant yet undervalued conflicts of World War Two ...

65 years have passed since a brilliant young art student set sail from Liverpool to fight Japanese aggression in the Far East Captured on arrival in the chaotic fall of Singapore Jack Chalker joined the 60000 allied prisoners driven to the limits of human endurance in the slave labour camps of the infamous Burma Railway "A sleeper laid for every life lost" ran the legend & the author's brushes & paints improvised with genius from the unlikeliest of sources record not only the misery squalor savagery heroism & fortitude of the prison camps but also the horrific reality of disease wounds & the ravages of starvation Unseen for nearly three generations the drawings in this book accompanied by Chalker's own commentary occupy an enthralling niche in the chronicling of the Second World War As an historical document a medical record & a tribute to the memory of the thousands who lost their lives " Burma Railway" is a profoundly moving document exquisite in its detail unique in its honesty It features over 100 full colour illustrations & photographs ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Armed with pocket-sized video cameras a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country Compiled from the shaky handheld footage acclaimed filmmaker Anders Ostergaard&s Burma VJ plays out as a real-life thriller as the Video-Journalists themselves become the target of the Burmese government Director Anders Ostergaard Certificate Exempt from Classification Year 2009 Duration 1 hour & 26 minutes (approx) ...

Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma George Orwell&s first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule It describes corruption & imperial bigotry in a society where &after all natives were natives
- interesting no doubt but finally an inferior people& When Flory a white timber merchant befriends Indian Dr Veraswami he defies this orthodoxy The doctor is in danger U Po Kyin a corrupt magistrate is plotting his downfall The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club & Flory can help Flory&s life is changed further by the arrival of beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen from Paris who offers an escape from loneliness & the &lie& of colonial life
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Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma George Orwell&s first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule It describes corruption & imperial bigotry in a society where &after all natives were natives
- interesting no doubt but finally an inferior people& When Flory a white timber merchant befriends Indian Dr Veraswami he defies this orthodoxy The doctor is in danger U Po Kyin a corrupt magistrate is plotting his downfall The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club & Flory can help Flory&s life is changed further by the arrival of beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen from Paris who offers an escape from loneliness & the &lie& of colonial life George Orwell&s first novel inspired by his experiences in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma Burmese Days

Includes:: a new introduction by Emma Larkin in Penguin Modern Classics


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George Orwell was a novelist unlike any other fiercely devoted to presenting the truth as he saw it The three novels in this collection date from the 1930s before his political satires Animal Farm & Nineteen Eighty-Four made him world-famous Compelling works in their own right they are all studies of men at odds with their surroundings In Burmese Days the darkest of the three a frustrated expatriate finds himself trapped between the decadence of his own people & the corruption of the natives they claim to rule Coming Up for Airdramatizes the frustration of every little man in his hopeless struggle against bourgeois respectability Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a sort of comedy in which minor poet Gordon Comstock engages briefly with romantic dreams before realizing that salvation is to be found not in escape from his life but engagement with it ...