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Buzz Gift Guide: Gifting Granny

BuzzSugar — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:45:34 PST

Welcome to the next installment of my Buzz Gift Guide series for all the entertainment lovers in your life. I've already thought up some holiday gifts for mom and dad this week, so today we're moving onto a very special lady: Grandma!

It can be hard to think of entertainment-related gifts for grandmas because of generational (not to mention maybe technological) gaps. But I thought of some gifts I know my grandma would get a kick out of, and to be honest, I wouldn't mind receiving a few of these myself!

For example, take this collection of movies starring Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart - a pairing that captivated an entire generation on and off the silver screen once upon a time. I'm ordering this up for my grandma and I look forward to viewing them with her.

And how cute is this I Love Lucy merchandise? My favorites are the purses. I've also included The Price Is Right on DVD (Bob Barker's entire final week!), a great Ella Fitzgerald Christmas album, a subscription to Soap Opera Digest, and a DVD set of classic Paul Newman films (grandmas still swoon, ya know).

Soap Opera Digest ($37.44)	Bogie & Bacall - The Signature Collection ($29.99)
The Films of Paul Newman ($15.99)	Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas ($10.99)
I Love Lucy Purse: Great Minds Think Alike ($29.95)	Best Of The Price Is Right ($34.99)

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P.L.O.W. - Love Songs to Dance the Night Away

FitSugar — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:30:00 PST

Valentine's Day was on a Wednesday night, which kind of stinks if you have to work the next day - and who doesn't have to work on Thursday. So I like to push the festivities to the weekend, so I can really celebrate.

Whether you're sharing it with your honey, a dear friend, your family, or even your pooch, these songs are sure to make your soul smile.

Whenever I hear these old tunes, I can't help but get up and dance. And what's even better? Dancing for 20 minutes can burn 100 calories. Just click the arrow in the green circle, turn up the volume, and start feeling the love when you groove. To see the music just

Upcoming Cannes Films Take New Looks at World's Oldest Profession

Annie Scudder — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:00:27 PDT

A young Japanese student who sells herself to pay for school gets hired by an elderly academic. A middle-aged Austrian woman travels to the beaches of Kenya looking for young African men to fall in love with, or at least sleep with. Two new films to be shown at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival will feature these very different scenarios starring the world's oldest profession. If you enjoy exploring human relationships through the lens of foreign films, here's why you might want to keep Paradise: Love and Like Someone in Love on your radar.

In Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love, Teresa is a 50 year-old Austrian mom with a teenage daughter. On her tropical African vacation to Kenya, Teresa goes from one "beach boy" to the next looking for a fulfilling fling, only to realize her encounters are merely business transactions. The filmmaker, Ulrich Seidl, researched for two years in Kenya, where some locals say one in five single female tourists from rich countries come looking for sex, and the movie stars actual working "beach boys" from the area. Paradise: Love promises to examine the business behind this unusual sex tourism and the influence of age, gender, and skin color on the market value of sexuality. Below is a slightly NSFW clip from the film.

Taking us from the beaches of Kenya to a home in Tokyo, Like Someone in Love gives viewers a more familiar premise. An elderly academic hires a young female student to have sex with him at his home. Few specific details are known about the film, by Iranian director and Cannes veteran Abbas Kiarostami, but the synopsis promises that the "web that is woven between them in the space of 24 hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter." The trailer, with Ella Fitzgerald's voice appropriately singing "Like Somebody in Love" over the intriguing scenes, definitely draws you into what looks like a complex tale of relationships. Watch the trailer for Like Someone in Love below.

Serve Up Dinner Mad Men-Style With a Season 5 Premiere Viewing Party

Camilla Salem — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:38:51 PDT

Photos: Camilla Salem, AMC, Susannah Chen

Who is excited about the return of Mad Men on Sunday? We are! Kick off season five in style with an intimate viewing party. Invite family and friends over for an evening that will take everyone back to the early '60s. Serve up old-fashioned eats and play music from the era. Ask that women dress up like Joan or Betty, and that the men wear suits and hats or sweater vests. For our specific recommendations, keep reading.