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WH Smith UK: The Leading UK Book Store - Online! Books, Stationery, Music, Video and More... - Bodyguard - (VHS) After recieving death-threats a singer hires a new bodyguard to protect her from a stalker. Romance blossoms between the two. Kevin Coster and Whitney Huston star. ... Pearl Harbor (Ben Affleck) (DVD) Romantic triangle set against the backdrop of the Pearl Harbor bombings. Ben Affleck Kate Beckinsale and Josh Hartnet provide a good-looking central trio while Armageddon director Michael Bay makes the explosions look almost as pretty. Following the Titanic formula to the letter Michael Bay's action thriller take on one of the most notorious incidents in American history is long pretty and wrapped around a romantic triangle. Criticised in some quarters for trivialising historical events the film could certainly benefit from some grit beneath its gloss. However viewed purely as an entertainment it delivers impressively well. The actual bombing of Pearl Harbor is used as the film's centrepiece a long - almost real time - recreation of the events. Here the film is at its very best. The special effects are astonishing and the focus broadens to encompass reactions on all sides. Unfortunately this is preceded by a rather lumpen romance diverting the attention to a fairly conventional love triangle between Jock-like Ben Affleck jock-like Josh Hartnett and English-rose-hiding-behind-an-accent Kate Beckinsale. This all looks very nice there's lots of slow motion expressive lighting and shots which make the three leads look very attractive but the dialogue is often hilariously bad which undercuts much of the emotional tension. After the bombing raid the film continues to show the American retaliation bombing. However this too seems ill-advised feeling - although based on genuine events - like an attempt at a happy ending of all things. However ultimately the film delivers exactly what you would expect from the director of Armageddon. Unsubtle heart tugging big bangs and pretty visuals. It works on its own level but don't make the mistake of taking it as seriously as the events on which it is based deserve. DVD Version (2 discs) Widescreen: 2.35:1 Stereo: Dolby Digital 5.1 (English Turkish) Subtitles: English Turkish Special Features Featurette: 'Journey to the Screen - The Making of Pearl Harbor' Featurette: 'Pearl Harbor: The Japanese Perspective' Music Video Theatrical Trailer ... THIRTEEN DAYS - (VHS) For hirteen extraordinary days in October of 1962 the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Across the globe people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political diplomatic and military contfrontation that threatened to end in an apocalyptic nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. In Thirteen Days the power and peril of American presidency is dramatically explored by director Roger Donaldson who captures the urgency suspense and paralyzing chaos of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The alarming escalation of events during those fateful days really brought President John F Kennedy and his brother Bobby to the fore and it's through the eyes of a trusted Presidential aide and condfidante Kenneth P O'Donnell (Kevin Cosner) that the story unfolds... ... Friends Series 7 (Eps. 5-8) - (DVD) Episodes 5 to 8 in Series Seven of the hit US comedy. On this DVD: Joey finds a protege in Rachel's assistant Tag; Ross and Joey become nap buddies; Janice invites herself to Chandler's wedding and Ross discovers a copy of his college dissertation in the library... ... International Express Upper intermediate: student's book This title addresses the needs of adults who use English in their professional lives but who find that general coursebooks are too general and Business English courses too specialized. A portable Pocket Book contains grammar summaries social phrases and other useful information. ... Notebook A man with a faded well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. THE NOTEBOOK is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun a rural Southerner recently returned from the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together Noah is content to live with only memories. . . until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson is now engaged to another man but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Yet the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship still remain and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future a fut ...
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WHSmith (WHS) is one of the UK's leading retail groups incorporating market leading companies in retail, publishing and news distribution. The Group has 1,464 stores world-wide, 30,747 employees in 12 countries and sales of some £2.9bn.
WHSmith is the UK's number one family retailer selling a range of products that extends across education, entertainment and information. Each year WHSmith High Street stores sell enough pens to circle the earth; enough books to fill a library shelf from London to Edinburgh; and enough paper to write a letter to everyone in the world. WH Smith also sell 122 million magazines and newspapers each year - enough to make a pile 69 times taller than Mount Everest.
The first High Street store was a small news vendor opened in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street, London, by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna. Today, WHSmith has 545 High Street stores, covering over 3 million square feet of selling space and employing 17,000 staff. Clubcard, the Company's loyalty scheme, has more than 5 million members.
Books, newspapers, magazines and stationery form the core of the High Street business. WHSmith sell more books than any other retailer in England, Scotland and Wales. For example, one in three copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were bought from WHSmith in the first weekend of release. WHSmith promote new authors with their Fresh Talent showcase and also have the Thumping Good Read Award that is voted for by members of Clubcard.
WHSmith's major stores stock more than 45,000 product lines, whereas an average food supermarket carries around 10,000 lines.
WHSmith currently holds a strong market share in each of the core categories in which it trades - books, stationery, news, magazines and entertainment. WH Smith's strategy is to exploit the strength, power and potential of the WHSmith brand to provide the very best service and value for money for their customers, shareholders and wider community.
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