PP Guru:
NEW DVD HABITS DIE HARD 6/14/05

Due to the massive schmooze load that the PP Guru had to undertake last week- he didn't have a chance to tell you all about the massive DVD load that he racked up on his charge card,....yet, again.

The PP Guru has a card specifically set aside for such herculean purchases that he can't even figure out how much he's pissing in the wind on DVDs alone. All he knows is that both his DVD players are hungry beasts and that they must constantly be fed. So the PP Guru sends out like $300-400 a month to his credit card company and lets them calculate the expenses. It's not as if the PP Guru has a submissive wife and little guru mouths to feed. Live it up to the Zen fullest, the PP Guru always says (could you imagine what would happen if the PP Guru had owed alimony? He would self explode).


Wonder Woman

Last week on DVD, it was super-hero release week for the studio that he works for. The third & final season of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter has hit the shelves. The PP Guru didn't bother to buy the other two seasons because he already has them on video tape when he was a sucker member for the Columbia House Re-Tv club (and they sold for $ 19.99 plus a shitload of taxes and postage) which practically sent him to the poor house. The only reason the PP Guru felt nostalgic for Lynda Carter ( who still looks absolutely stunning to this day) was because while the show had first aired during his formative high school years - he never really sat down and watched it - He just wasn't into Wonder Woman back then- not as much as he was into the Incredible Hulk show that aired on Fridays ( The PP Guru is drawing a complete blank as to what day of the week the show originally aired- maybe iit was Wednesdays?). But the PP Guru viewed the first two episodes over the weekend to check out the quality of the set and he was impressed. However, the first episode featured the horrendous boy toy Leif Garrett - which means the PP Guru still doesn't know how to let go of his pubescent grudges. Special features include Lynda Carter contributing commentary on that same awful episode, plus little documentary features. If you buy the set now, you get a bonus disc of an early 1970's Shazam episode that used to air on Saturday mornings- which the PP Guru supposes you have to have a acquired taste for - especially if you feel that Billy Batson driving across country in a Winnabago with some old fart is appropiate material for this day and age.


Lois & Clark

The first season of Lois & Clark has also been released- and it's one the PP Guru is looking forward to revisit. Like the Wonder Woman collection, the PP Guru is more excited in seeing where and how the sets and locations on the lot are utilized of where he is employed- since he wasn't working there at the time when the show was made. The PP Guru felt that Dean Cain back in the day would have made a better Superboy rather than a Superman since he looked way too young for the role- but since that job was already taken (what 3 different actors on the syndicated show?) I guess it will be revealed why Dean got the job according to the bonus feature specs on the set. Cain provides commentary along with Exec producer Deborah Joy Levine on the pilot episode along with a special presentation reel that was shown at one year's San Diego Comic Con International. The PP Guru hasn't gotten around to checking out the first disc yet. Perhaps this weekend. Also comes packaged with a special bonus disc of the Smallville premiere episode, "Crusade'. Sadly this set's timing couldn't have come at the worst time, now that Lane Smith has passed away this morning. In the PP Guru's ideal mind- Smith did the best portrayal of Perry White in any of the shows or serials.


Sopranos

The only good thing about PP Guru's bastardized childhood growing up in New Jersey is that some of the places of where he grew up are immortalized on screen to watch over and over on the new Sopranos Season 5 disc set, overpriced as usual on HBO Dvd. The PP Guru has had some hard core electro shock flashback occurances when he sees certain pizzerias and malls that he physically stood foot in. This season is the epitome of seasons as the mob action is upped a notch in the body bag department on this particular set. The PP Guru has seen most of the episodes on this set through tapes that some of his disciples have done for him- but let the PP Guru tell you this- Drea DeMatteo, Michael Imperoli, and most especially Steve Buscemi (too bad his character couldn't last the entire season) has done some of their most exquisite work of their entire careers. Skimpy on the extras as usual when it comes to HBO products - but to those schmoes who don't subscribe to HBO such as the PP Guru himself, $99.99 for a box set is a bargain if you were to do without the hassle of subscriber fees if you were to purchase HBO just to watch the Sopranos AND nothing else- there are only 5 commentaries by writers and producers with one provided by DeMatteo on her farewell episode "Long Term Parking" .


Man- Thing

This week's puzzled purchase includes - Man-Thing - which some of the PP Guru's fellow co-workers are currently razzing him about at this very moment. One co-worker has said that the PP Guru should have saved his money and bought it on E-bay instead for a lousy 5 bucks. But the PP Guru doesn't trust putting his twenty-plus credit card numbers online. He knows that there scourges lurking at every cyber corner. I also reminded this co-worker that if he had taped Man-Thing off the Sci-Fi channel when it first aired, he wouldn't be in this bad purchase predictment in the first place. But who knows, the PP Guru might wind up liking the movie.

As digital satellite beamed to:

~ Coat