2003 KYI Superstore (Jan-July)!

 

Latest Cool Stuff!
Why is it cool? Because I said so!

It's Award Season -- American Music Awards, Golden Globes, Grammys, Oscars, etc etc ad nauseum! -- so your favorite Pop Culture Diva, me :>, is gonna help you find out who all the people are that will be filling up the newspaper columns and television and radio airwaves for the next few months! 

PLUS I'll let you know what's gonna be big throughout 2003!

Books | Music | DVDs

Books

1) First things first -- Whaddaya mean you haven't read these yet??

Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Stupid White Men
Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Nickel and Dimed
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
I Don't Know How She Does It
I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones: A Novel
The Nanny Diaries
The Nanny Diaries: A Novel

 

2) "It's a book! It's a movie! It's a book! It's a movie! It's--"

The Hours film
Find local showtimes for The Hours movie
The Hours
Read The Hours novel

Mrs. Dalloway
Read Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway novel

Catch Me If You Can Film
Find local showtimes for the Catch Me If You Can movie
Catch Me If You Can
Read the Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit novel
The Pianist film
Find local showtimes for The Pianist movie
The Pianist
Read The Pianist novel
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Adaptation
Find local showtimes for the Adaptation. movie
The Orchid Thief
Read The Orchid Thief novel
The Seabiscuit film, which stars Tobey Maguire, is scheduled to be released in July of 2003. See captioned movie stills and view the trailer at the official web site, SeabiscuitMovie.com. Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Read the Seabiscuit: An American Legend novel

 

3) Books we're all waiting for--!

Profoundly Disturbing: The Shocking Movies That Changed History, by Joe Bob Briggs
PROFOUNDLY DISTURBING: SHOCKING MOVIES That CHANGED HISTORY!
by Joe Bob Briggs 
due June 2003
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5), by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling
due June 2003
The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger
The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel
by Lauren Weisberger
(former assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour)
due April 2003

 

 

Music

Country music should be really HUGE in 2003! See some of the more major players below...

Dixie Chicks, Home
#1 album, Home (original release)
 
by the Dixie Chicks
See also Home (Limited Edition) with DVD of music videos
Up! by Shania Twain
#1 album, Up!
by Shania Twain
Faith Hill, Cry
#1 album, Cry
by Faith Hill
Drive, Alan Jackson
#1 album, Drive 
by Alan Jackson, featuring the #1 song, "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"
Unleashed, Toby Keith
#1 album, Unleashed 
by Toby Keith, featuring the controversial #1 song, "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)
Kenny Chesney album
#1 album, No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problems
by Kenny Chesney, featuring the #1 song, "Good Stuff"
George Strait, The Road Less Traveled
#1 album, The Road Less Traveled
by (legendary!) George Strait, featuring the #1 song, "She'll Leave You With A Smile"
Golden Road, Keith Urban
Golden Road 
by Keith Urban, featuring the #1 song, "Somebody Like You"
Martina McBride's Greatest Hits
#1 album Greatest Hits
by Martina McBride, featuring the #1 songs "Blessed," "Wrong Again," "A Broken Wing," "I Love You," "Wild Angels," and my personal favorite, "When God-Fearin' Women Get The Blues"!

 

 

DVDs

If there was ever any doubt, let it be erased: DVDs are here to stay! Moreover, movie studios are actually embracing them, using the storage capacity of DVDs to include all manner of extras with a film's release to the home theater market, such as deleted scenes, alternate endings, behind-the-scenes "making of" documentaries, song books, screenplays, still photos, interviews with cast and crew, screen tests, original trailers/commercials for the film, and, perhaps most entertaining of all, commentaries that you can listen to while you watch the films, which can be from the film's actors, directors, producers, biggest fans, worst critics, or any combination of the above. Or, as is the case with some titles, the commentary can come from you yourself! 

See some of the more impressively-stacked DVDs below...(including some of the titles causing a kinda slow burn among their fans who had already bought the initial DVD releases that didn't have all the fancy extras -- <cough!>Lord of the Rings: Platinum Edition</cough!> -- and ended up buying the title yet again. But they're not bitter -- oh no, not bitter at all!!!)

West Side Story, Special Edition
West Side Story (Special Edition), a 2-disc set featuring Natalie Wood's never-before-heard original vocals on the songs
I Spit on Your Grave
I Spit on Your Grave (Millennium Edition), featuring commentary by Val's book review editor dude, Joe Bob Briggs
(read Joe Bob's review of this controversial film at joebobbriggs.com)
X-Men 1.5
X-Men 1.5, featuring six deleted scenes, and a preview of upcoming film, X-Men 2
Lord of the Rings, Platinum Edition
The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition), a 4-disc set
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding, featuring commentary by star/writer Nia Vardalos, actor John Corbett, and director Joel Zwick
Spider-Man
Spider-Man - Limited Edition Collector's Gift Set, an intense 2-disc set

 

 

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See the First 2003 KYI Superstore which spotlighted such items as Seabiscuit: An American Legend, The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel, the TOP country music CDs, and the My Big Fat Greek Wedding DVD. The Second 2003 KYI Superstore featured Bernie Mac's ALA READ poster, Kelly Kenyatta's Red Hot Halle biography, Maroon 5's Songs About Jane, iPods, the movie Valley Girl and its assorted CD soundtracks, and cool cult films Office Space, The Big Lebowski and Psycho Beach Party. See the 2002 Keeping You Informed Superstore (as well as the Val's 2002 Wish List edition) and the Keeping You Informed Archives (1999-2001)

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Backstreet Boys in Alley, from back of "Black & Blue"

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