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WH Smith Mail Order Catalog Store, UK - Bugsy Malone Special Edition (DVD) One of the best-loved and most original movies from the 1970s gets a chance to enchant another generation. Bugsy Malone features a cast of kids including a young Jodie Foster custard pie weapons and a handful of great tunes. In 1929 New York a war rages between two rival gangsters Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new weapon the dreaded splurge gun which fires ice cream. Meanwhile as the custard pies fly Bugsy Malone falls for Blousey Brown a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself. The special edition DVD features an exclusive commentary with director Alan Parker as well as teaser trailers promotional reel production stills biographies trivia notes original set design artwork press reviews and fan mail. ... Friends Series 2 Box Set (VHS) Contains all six volumes from series two. ... Phantom Of The Opera (Remaster) A winning mix of Italian-Opera-lite gothic organ music and Andrew Lloyd Webber's unfailing ear for a big song here performed by the original cast. ... Chocolate Cakes for Weddings and Celebrations The look the smell the taste of chocolate - it is one of the most indulgent of foods so it is not surprising that chocolate cakes are a popular choice for weddings these days. The designs range from smooth sleek dark chocolate to pretty wedding cakes adorned with white chocolate curls. ... You Can Heal Your Life In this book Louise Hay believing that we make ourselves ill by having thoughts of self-hatred tells us that we are each responsible for our own reality. The book includes a directory of ailments and emotional causes for each with a corresponding affirmation to help overcome the illness. ... CHICKEN RUN (DVD) - (WS) DVD version of Nick Park and Peter Lord's claymation classic. A group of chickens struggle to escape from the prison-like confines of Tweedy's Farm. Will the newly arived American "Flying" Rooster be able to help? An escape is being planned from Hut 17 a few good ladies led by the ever resourceful Ginger are planning to make their latest escape. Perhaps the recently arrived American airman might help them get out of there? Before they get made into chicken pies? Bearing all the trappings of a prisoner of war movie Chicken Run is actually the feature film debut of the Oscar winning Aardman productions who spawned Wallace and Gromit. It clocks in at just over eighty minutes and proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Nick Park and Peter Lord are both more than capable of sustaining the plastecine fun for more than half an hour. The plot is simple enough in tyrannical poultry farm in Northern England the chickens are getting restless with profits dropping the evil Mrs Tweedy has concocted a terrifying new way to make her produce pay. However serial escapee Ginger (voiced by Julia Swahala) has other ideas and is determined to rally the other chickens to escape. Unfortunately they’re all chickens and are thus thick as two short planks and thanks to them her increasingly ingenious escape attempts are continually foiled. Enter American circus bird Rocky The Rooster (Mel Gibson seriously) who Ginger believes can help them out. You can count the number of good British full-length animations on the fingers of one hand and so while Chicken Run was certainly financed by Spielberg’s very American Dreamworks company the film remains quintessentially English inhabiting the same amusingly twee world as Wallace and his faithful hound. Vocal talent includes Miranda Richardson (as the baddie – of course) Jane Horrocks Phil Daniels and Imelda Staunton and the film is peppered with ingenious contraption comedy (the chicken pie machine has to be seen to be believed). The jokes should appeal to an adult audience while the breathless adventure should hook the kids however the film’s major asset is its charm most of which exudes from the central characterisations. Ginger in particular is perhaps one of the best heroines that the screen has seen for some time to throw in a needless oxymoron she’s one heroic chicken and considering all the terrible puns that could have been used in this review that’s no mean feat. DVD Version Widescreen: 1.85:1 Anamorphic Stereo: Dolby Digital 5.1 (English) DTS Subtitles: English For The Hearing Impaired Special Features Three Trailers (Teaser Theatrical and Chicken Impossible) 'Fowl Play' The Making of Chicken Run 20 Minute Interview With Peter Lord And Nick Park Directors' Commentary Aardman Archive Clips Chicken Run Game Trailer ...
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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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