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Crime DVDs ‘Get Shorty,’ ‘Heat’
recognize their 10th anniversaries
BY DAVID GERMAIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"The Docurama
Awards Collection"
With documentaries approaching
mainstream acceptance (Sunday's
Academy Awards nominees include
the nonfiction hits "Super Size Me"
and "Tupac: Resurrection"), one of the
premier home-video labels for docs of
fers a weighty package of past Oscar
winners and contenders. The 12-disc
set compiles a dozen titles previously
released as separate DVDs, highlight
ed by five best-documentary Oscar re
cipients: "Scared Straight!" (1978),
"Best Boy" (1979), "From Mao to
Mozart" (1980), "Maya Lin: A Strong
Clear Vision" (1994) and "Murder on a
Sunday Morning" (2001). The seven
other Oscar nominees included in this
far-ranging boxed set are "Children
Underground," "Genghis Blues,"
"Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: Speak
ing in Strings," "Paul Taylor: Dance
maker," "Regretto Inform," "Sound
and Fury" and "The Weather Under
ground." DVD set,$199.95. (Docurama)
"l(Heart)Huckabees"
David 0. Russell directs an "exis
tential comedy" that might have taken
last year's quirky-film crown were it
notfor "Eternal Sunshine of the Spot
less Mind” and "The Life Aquatic
With Steve Zissou." The ensemble
castfeatures Dustin Hoffman, Lily
Tomlin, Naomi Watts, Jude Law, Mark
Wahlberg, Jason Schwartzman and
Isabelle Huppertin a screwball quest
forthe meaning of life. The movie
comes in a single-DVD release with
two commentary tracks, one by Rus
sell, the other with Russell, Schwartz
man, Wahlberg and Watts, or in a
two-disc set whose extras include a
large batch of deleted scenes, cast
and crew interviews and a music
video. Single DVD, $27.98; two-disc
set, $39.98. (20th Century Fox)
"Get Shorty"
John Travolta saddles up again
in his "Cadillac of minivans" in a
10-year anniversary release of
his Hollywood crime romp, which
also serves as a warm-up for his
sequel, "Be Cool," in theaters
March 4. The Elmore Leonard adapta
tion features Travolta as ultra-capa
ble loan shark Chili Palmer, who tires
of the mob business and tries his
hand at movie producing. The two
disc set has three newly produced
featurettes with interviews by Travol
ta and co-stars Danny DeVito, Gene
Hackman, Rene Russo and James
Gandolfini, along with director Barry
Sonnenfeld and Leonard. Sonnenfeld
also offers commentary, and the DVD
has a deleted scene featuring Ben
Stiller, whose part was cut from the
film. There's also the obligatory sneak
preview of "Be Cool." DVD set,
$29.98. (MG M)
Heat"
Also celebrating its 10th birthday is
Michael Mann's sprawling crime
saga that pits Robert De Niro and Al
Pacino against each other on oppo
site sides of the law. Co-starring Jon
Voight, Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd,
the film stars De Niro as a masterthief
whose big score is disrupted by pur
suit from an obsessive cop (Pacino).
The new two-disc release has com
mentary by writer-director Mann
("Collateral"), 11 deleted scenes and
five featurettes, among them a
glimpse of the real-life cop whose
1960s case was the basis forthe film.
DVD set, $26.99. (Warner Bros.)
Three Japanese epics
Two epics directed by Japanese
animation master Hayao Miyazaki
("Spirited Away") and a third by Hi
royuki Morita make their U.S. debut in
two-disc sets, each containing inter
views with the films' English-lan
guage voice casts. Miyazaki's "Nau
sicaa," centers on a princess leading
a struggle for survival in a war-rav
aged future. His "Porco Rosso," about
a World War I flying ace whose face
has been transformed into a pig's,
features the voices of Michael
Keaton and Cary Elwes. Morita's "The
Cat Returns," whose voice stars in
clude Anne Hathaway, Elwes and Pe
ter Boyle, follows a schoolgirl's ad
ventures in a magical feline kingdom.
DVDs, $29.99 each. (Disney)
■ Book review
Popes book ‘Memory and Identity’
based on conversations with friends
BYVICTOR L. SIMPSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME — An Italian publishing
house gathered Rome's glitterati
Tuesdayforthe official launch of
Pope John Paul M's new book, hop
ing the work that includes his first
public description of the moments
after he was shot can become an in
ternational bestseller.
Top prelates sat side-by-side with
politicians, industrialists and titled no
bility for the event in the Palazzo
Colonna, which was built by a
15th century pope.
The Rizzoli publishing house, which
holds the worldwide rights, announced
thatthe book "Memory and Identity"
would come out in 14 editions
in 11 languages overthe next
few months.
Papal spokesman Joaquin Navar
ro-Valls confirmed that John Paul's
description of his ride in an ambu
lance after being shot by a Turkish
gunman in 1981 had not been made
public before.
The book, a copy of which was ob
tained Feb. 17 by The Associated Press
in Poland, is based on conversations
the pope had in Polish with his close
friends, philosopher Krzysztof
Michalski and the late Rev. Jozef Tis
chner in 1993 atthe papal summer resi
dence near Rome.
A German Jewish leader criticized
one passage in the book, saying the
pope was making an unacceptable
comparison between abortion and
the Holocaust.
Paul Spiegel, the head of Ger
many's Central Council of Jews,
pointed to the pope's contention that
both the Holocaust and abortion
came about when people decided to
usurp "the law of God."
The book is John Paul's fifth.
Royalties from the books go to charity.
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