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...world celebrates her centenary. There's a knowing, sumptuously illustrated book (Mark Vieira's Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy), a tribute in films and photographs at New York City's Scandinavia House, a monthlong retrospective of all her extant Hollywood films on Turner Classic Movies (TCM), a 10-disc DVD collection (Garbo: The Signature Collection) and a fine documentary (Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird's Garbo, which can be found on TCM and in the DVD set). A first look at her classics--Flesh and the Devil and A Woman of Affairs among her silent films, Queen Christina and Camille...
...tricked out with a Man in Black lithograph and a coffee-table book heavy enough to knock out anyone who asks if it's all really worth $329.98. There's also a considerably cheaper model with just the music, nearly 50 years of Cash divided thematically into four discs. The real find is the Family and Friends disc, which has a selection of Cash's work with the Carter Family plus a spectacularly weird duet with Bob Dylan (Girl from the North Country) and a previously unreleased You Can't Beat Jesus Christ, in which Cash and Billy Joe Shaver...
...curators of this seven-disc set neglect whole chunks of rap and dance music and package the compilation in a cover featuring vacuum-packed coffee beans. They may be going for high camp, but the 130 songs, arranged chronologically--starting with M.C. Hammer's sample-based U Can't Touch This and ending with Moby's sample-based Natural Blues--more or less re-create the bipolar experience of listening to commercial radio...
They started out as Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks, morphed into Bob Dylan's swaggering backup group and then struck out on their own, which makes the Band one of the few outfits actually constrained by mere five-disc treatment. Among the 37 previously unreleased tracks, there's a hysterically loose version of Highway 61 Revisited as well as a gospel take on The Weight powered by the Staples. All the Band's hits are included, but the most revealing are the "song sketches," quiet recordings that reveal the origins of the propulsive sound that followed. There are also 108 pages...
...died after one glorious season. Undeclared covered familiar campus-comedy ground (sex, beer, pranks) but had an intuition for the self-discovery that emerges amid finals and keg parties, and the ensemble gave the dialogue a loose, improv feel. Fleshed out with commentaries (and an unaired episode), this four-disc set is a graduate seminar in smart comedy...