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Cher: The Farewell Tour (2003)
The most ultimate Diva of all time!!!
She proved she's alive with ''Living Proof'' and with her farewell shows, everyone is convinced to the bone. This show contains each and every one of Cher's incarnations. The balladeer Cher, the dance Cher, the rock Cher, the crazy Cher, the drag queen Cher... it is ''the Cherest show on Earth''! The song selection is great: all the number one singles are here, songs from her movies, a medley of the Sonny & Cher songs, new songs and old songs, but there are too many songs that she has never sung live in concert. Indeed, the Believe tour and the Farewell tour have similar song selection. Anyway, the dancers are great (the choreographers too), the band rocks (the good boys & the bad boys) and there's Paul Mirkovich who sings a duet with Cher on ''After All''. His voice is huge! He should release his own albums. The costume changes, the stage scenes and the dances are many and very good! A nice concert to hear and to watch. Don't forget it's released on CD as well. I suggest the DVD, though. That's all, folks! Cher is so great you enjoy yourself just seeing her.
Timeless: Live in Concert (2001)
The perfect career time line of the greatest voice of all time!!!
Barbra's 1999/2000 concert is by far the best concert ever performed. At her 57, Barbra is still singing very good. 'Timeless' is a retrospective of her 38-year-old career. It begins with her first recording in 1955 (You'll Never Know) by Mini-Her (Lauren Frost: a young girl with a great, huge-ranged voice who also looks like Barbra!) and when the millennium is about to change, she sings her latest songs (At The Same Time - 1997, I've Dreamed Of You - 1999). The first song that Barbra herself sings is ''Something's Coming'' and the last one is ''Somewhere'', both from Stephen Sondheim's ''West Side Story''. I guess Barbra adores that play!... Anyway, listening to this concert, from Barbra's early years performing at night clubs the songs that would then become her first albums' hits, someone can appreciate and develop the right opinion for the most successful female artist of all time. It's very important that there has been an excellent choice of songs and also, Barbra has written her speeches which were, as you will find out, necessary to make this concert worth that much. She's true and honest with every theme and subject: about her forgotten recording (Alfie), about her feelings for her lost father with a two-songs dedication (Papa, Can You Hear Me? and A Piece Of Sky, both from Yentl), about how fragile the world is (At The Same Time), about how the world can become a better place (I Believe), about her co-operation with Stephen Sondheim (Send In The Clowns) and so much more. Really enjoyable moments are: Singing ''The Main Event'' ('the 70's -my God!- disco!', as she recalls), her ''Everytime You Hear Auld Lang Syne'' duet with the audience, the duets video montage with Judy Garland, Barry Gibb, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion and Neil Diamond and a medley that the audience went crazy for (I'm The Greatest Star/Second Hand Rose/Don't Rain On My Parade). One of the greatest moments is the last seconds: in fact, the last note she sings which is ''wheeeeere'' from Bernstein/Sondheim's ''Somewhere''. In this concert, Barbra sings songs that haven't been performed for a Long time, like ''Lover, Come Back To Me'' and ''Miss Marmelstein''. The great cast (Randee Heller & Alec Ledd), the brilliant time-keeper, Time (played by Savion Glover), Lauren Frost, Marvin Hamlisch and the background singers are people you have got to shout out for, too. Above all, it's a high-level concert with good audio and video material, great humor and hard work. A must have DVD (and CD) for every miscellaneous fan and not only.
House of Wax (2005)
A real great horror movie!
After a long time, I found one great horror movie that is ''House Of Wax''. It has a fantastic script and a fantastic cast as well. Especially Paris Hilton and Chad Michael Murray are really hot-t-t!!! Anyway, the whole scenery was not fake at all. Instead, it seemed absolutely real, actual and possible to happen (well, while you watch it).
The ''bad characters'' of the movie were really scary. They were amazing! They were Siamese twins: the one had a scarred face with freaking good special effects. His brother had a regular face... but only for the first seconds. After you found out he was a true psychopath to the bone, all the regularity was at once gone! In the film, there is a whole house made of real wax! And also, there is a whole town made for it (!)(I watched the DVD bonus material), but I don't know if it's made of wax! What is the most thrilling is the graphics. The best graphics you'll have seen for a long time.
This film has also very good scenes with fighting, hunting, running and hiding. We're talking 'bout real terror. A really enjoyable movie.
Kostas.