Sesame Street - 123 Count with Me



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Join Ernie at The Furry Arms Hotel for a musical lesson in just how useful and fun counting can be! When Ernie finds and returns a misplaced key, he uses his knowledge of numbers to return the key to the correct guest. As Ernie begins to learn about the hotel business, he finds many common situations in which counting is essential. Throughout the movie Ernie and his friends help children learn to count from 1 to 20 with such songs as the jazzy "That's How the Numbers Go", an original version of the Chorus Line show tune "One" and "Rap Song #11". Favorite characters Elmo and The Count are joined by Ding, the Dinger, a furry fellow with a bell on his head and Benny, the bellboy that responds to his dings. Children as young as 18 months will bounce happily along with the catchy tunes and 2-year-olds will be inspired to count aloud with Ernie. Kids up to age 5 will hone their counting skills and laugh!

Silkwood



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Karen Silkwood was a metallography laboratory technician at the Cimarron River plutonium plant of Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation. She joined the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers' Union and participated in the strike. In 1974 Silkwood became the first female member of her union's bargaining committee. She discovered evidence of spills, leaks and missing plutonium. Silkwood testified to charges before the Atomic Energy Commission that she had suffered radiation exposure. There's evidence that Kerr-McGee, a virulently anti-union corporation with powerful political connections, kept Silkwood under surveillance with the help of police and government tapping her phone, contaminating her apartment and having her car forced off the road on the night of Nov. 13, 1974. Her death is still a mystery. The plant was closed.

Singin' in the Rain



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Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American kind of picture known as the "musical". This 1952 MGM picture, starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and a sprightly Debbie Reynolds, is an affectionately funny insider spoof about the film industry's uneasy transition from silent pictures to "talkies". Kelly plays debonair star Don Lockwood whose leading lady Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) has a screechy voice hilariously ill-suited to the new technology (and her glamorous screen image). Best of all is that charming title ditty in which Kelly makes movie magic on a drenched set with nothing, but a few puddles, a lamppost and an umbrella.

Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World



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Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World is a close examination into what some consider to be a hoax: aspartame toxicity. This documentary attempts to look at what is definitely known about aspartame and discovers that the label "hoax" in this case is a dangerous misconception. This controversial documentary is sure to open eyes to the possible dangers of what lurks in our food. Aspartame is contained in diet drinks and comes under different names as an artificial sweetener: NutraSweet, Sweet 'n' Low, Splenda, Saccharin and more. So avoid that diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet 7up, diet Mountain Dew, etc. from now on! Aspartame causes brain tumor and lowers the seizure threshold for patients with epilepsy, but there are many more toxic side effects, because after all it's a poison forced through the FDA, when President Reagan came to power. Since then over 60 countries have approved this poison, just because they relied blindly on the FDA's approval, thereby poisoning their own population. Hear doctors of conscience speak out in this great movie!