Best Of Billie

Advantages: Great tracks, loads of emotion packed inside!
Disadvantages: Not so much tracks from her first album

...A jam-packed CD full of unique tracks from an amazing artist! ***** Billie Paul Piper was born in 1982 in Swindon. Since she was tiny, she dreamed of performing and attended various dance classes and drama groups! When she was 13, she won a place in Sylvia Young Drama School and stayed there in London. When she was 15, she was given the opportunity of a lifetime! Innocent Record Company offered her a record deal! Without hesitating, Billie jumped at the chance, and became a new face for music - a young, lively, bubbly teen! Billie's first single, 'Because We Want To', went straight to number one - a massive achievement! Following that, Billie had several other fantastic hits and a great album, 'Honey To the Bee'. Billie promoted this album by going on tour, then taking a short break afterwards. When her break was over, Billie...

Amy69 05.06.2007 (17.06.2007) · Read review
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Billy Madison review

Advantages: Stupidly funny!
Disadvantages: Not very original

...Billy Madison is another comedy film starring the as yet unknown at the time Adam Sandler. It was made in 1995 when Sandler was still on Saturday Night Live. Adam Sandler plays the titular character; he's 27 and the son of Bryan Madison (Darren McGavin), a very rich hotel magnate. So he has never worked a day in his life and doesn't know the true meaning of money as everything is just given to him. But Bryan is retiring, and is torn about whether to give it to Billy or to Eric Gordon (Bradley Whitford), a slimy co-worker at Madison Hotels. So Billy strikes a deal with his dad: he will go through each school grade and pass their exams in a short period of time in order for him to become the head of the company. If he fails, it goes to Gordon. And if that isn't enough pressure, he gets heckled at school, goofs off as much as he can...

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BILLY BOMBS

Advantages: Mostly new material
Disadvantages: Not the standard you would expect

...Billy Connolly Live in New York . " Too Old To Die Young " 2005 Tour Certificate 15 Running time 1 hour 32 minutes Produced by Universal , filmed at the Town Hall New York Format DVD THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE SHOW FEATURED ON THE DVD ONLY , AND NOT THE EXTRAS " After three decades of touring the USA this is Billy Connolly's first concert filmed in America in February 2005 " I received this DVD as a Christmas gift from my daughter after much hinting and hoping , and sure enough there it was , under the Christmas tree , wrapped and ready to go . Despite my impatience I deliberately didn't watch it on that day as we were so busy , and I wanted to set aside some time when I could sit uninterrupted and just enjoy Billy's unique style of philosophy based humour . I have every video and DVD that he has ever released...

Janej47 29.12.2005 · Read review
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Billy Madison - My appraisal

Advantages: Steve Buscemi cameo, Bridgette Wilson (delightful)
Disadvantages: More or less everythingabout the film!

...Having had mixed views on Sandler films in the past, I was flicking through the sky movies channels (as i so often do) on friday night and stumbled across 'Billy Madison'. Billy Madison is a comedy film made in 1995 which is directed by Tamra Davis. The film is co-written by Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy, and the film is produced by Universal Pictures. So what is it all about? ------------------------------ When Brian Madison (Darren McGavin) makes a decision to retire from the hotel chain that he owns, it would seem that the logical choice would be to hand down the business to his only son, Billy (Adam Sandler). The problem is that Billy just so happens to be a complete delinquent that has absolutely not concept of how to look after himself, let alone a multi-million dollar company. After Billy makes a mockery of his father...

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Billy Elliot

Advantages: Sad but uplifting, good actors
Disadvantages: A bit too depressing for some

...Billy Elliot was not the sort of film I liked, and when my sister bought it on DVD, I moaned about her crap choice in films, but she insisted it was actually very good, as she saw it at the cinema when it came out a few years ago. I sat down and watched it grumpily later that night, expecting it to be patronising, contrived sugary sweet rubbish. I was so wrong! I vaguely knew that Billy Elliot was the story of a boy, of the same name, who aspired to be a ballet dancer in 1980's England, but that was it. A film about an 11 year-old ballet dancer? Not interested at all! Anyway, the storyline: Billy Elliot is living with his father, brother and grandmother in County Durham, during the miner strikes of the 1980's, on a council estate. His dad and brother are heavily involved in the strikes, so they don't have much money, and his dad...

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Timeless Album by Billy Joel

Advantages: Great songs
Disadvantages: None

...Last night I was cleaning my CD rack and I tried to rearrange my CD's. I noticed this 52nd Street album of Billy Joel. I realized that I haven't played it for such a long time. As this album is one of my favorites, I played it and I was again mesmerized by most of the songs. Tracks Listing 1. Big Shot 4:05 2. Honesty 3:53 3. My Life 4:44 4. Zanzibar 5:10 5. Stiletto 4;44 6. Rosalinda's Eyes 4:40 7. Half A Mile 4:09 8. Until The Night 6:36 9. 52nd Street 2:26 About Each Track Big Shot Because you had to be a big shot, didn't you? You had to open up your mouth You had to be a big shot, didn't you? This track has a Billy Joel trademark with overpowering exhibition of guitars. I always love it when he sings the line 'big shot' with great enthusiasm. This song never bores me. Billy sings this song with full energy...

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Growing Pains - Billie Piper (paperback)

Advantages: Full of emotion and feeling, plenty of detail...
Disadvantages: Hard to put down, can draw tears to the eyes

...MY STORY Christmas last year, I received the hardback copy of Growing Pains, and read it almost instantly! Taking me a few weeks, I enjoyed every word of the book, and was devastated when I reached the end! Then earlier this year, I heard that a paper-back copy of Billie's autobiography was in the process of being published. I 'ummed' and 'aahed' for quite a while, considering preordering it on Amazon. But I was unaware of the exact month it was to be released in the shops, so I just waited a while. Then I came across paperback Growing Pains in WHSmith mid-August, priced at £6.99. I didn't really want to pay that, so I decided to pick up a copy and have a quick 'flick'. It was then that I noticed it had been fully updated, with a few pages based on Treats (more about this later). Well, that was it for me! I was pushing myself...

Amy69 06.06.2007 (17.09.2007) · Read review
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Billy Elliot - on stage!

Advantages: good songs and good acting
Disadvantages: the film is better

...I absolutely love Billy Elliot and have done since I saw it at the cinema, owning both the video and DVD (sad I know). As soon as I knew that it was coming out as a musical I knew I had to see it. I within the first 6 months of it coming out and it is still one of the only London musicals I have actually paid full price for. The seats we had were quite high up but I don't think that this restricted our viewing at all and so I would actually say that due to the 'bedroom' scenes being high that this was actually an advantage. The songs in the musical are all different to the ones in the film. They are just aas catchy though - but hard to hear the exact words at times. The child who played Billy was very good and I cannot fault his acting. Some of the script is exactly the same as the film but a lot of it is changed, as have some...

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Growing Pains - Billie Piper's life story

Advantages: good read, honest account of her life (so far)
Disadvantages: none

...I remember Billie as an annoying 14 year old singing "Because We Want Too". She had a couple of hits, "Honey To The Bee" being another one that I can think of. Then she went quiet for a while and the next thing we hear is that Chris Evans from TFI Friday has given her a red Ferrari and she can't even drive! Why did Chris give her a Ferrari, why did she think she could sing?! All these questions and more are answered in her compelling book Growing Pains. Growing Pains is the autobiography of Billie Piper. It is an honest, interesting and quite touching story of her life until now. An autobiography used to be about the life story of a person, now it seems to be the life story (so far). Billie Piper is still only 23 years old, what can she know about life? Enough to fill a book? The answer is yes. Billie, at the age of 23...

kismet 16.01.2007 · Read review
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Can you find Billy's Beetle?

Advantages: Great illustrations and storyline. Holds children's attention
Disadvantages: None

...Mick Inkpen is a fabulous children's author and in Billy's Beetle he has achieved the high quality set by all of his books. ~ The Story ~ When Billy's beetle escapes from its matchbox the hunt begins to find the beetle. Billy first asks a girl if she has seen his beetle. When her reply is no, Billy moves on with the girl in tow when along comes a man with a sniffy dog. The sniffy dog digs deep underground and finds a hedgehog, 2 spiders, some worms and a worm, but unfortunately for Billy, not his beetle!! And so the hunt continues and before long a host of characters get in on the act: the girl, the sniffy dog, the hedgehog, the polar bear, the ooompah band and the elephant. Eventually, with all of the characters in tow, the hedgehog spots the beetle but by this time, Billy's interest in his beetle has been surpassed by...

neenn 25.01.2006 · Read review
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