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There were several masters of animation during Hollywood's golden era. Of the top two geniuses, one created elaborate fairy tales and ornate feature-length fantasias -- the other guy was Tex Avery. He just wanted to make you laugh. Having already been integrally involved in the development of Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny for Warner Bros., Avery moved to MGM in 1941 to create a set of comedy masterpieces that defined a new slapstick style for animation, inspiring cartoonists, comedians and filmmakers for decades to come. Avery's unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer was all about breaking the fourth wall, shattering expectations and making audiences fall down with laughter. His one-shot masterpieces, including Bad Luck Blackie, Red Hot Riding Hood and Symphony in Slang, have proven themselves pure gold. And continuing characters like Droopy, Screwball Squirrel and George & Junior -- not to mention Spike, Red and The Wolf -- remain unforgettable comic personas among the top rank of cartoondom. Avery's cartoons were ahead of their time -- and their time has come. Finally committed to Blu-ray , this first collection of restored Technicolor shorts feels fresh and new, and is funnier than ever. This set will delight young and old -- and will amaze a new generation ready to laugh again. -- JERRY BECK, Animation Historian

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Disc 2 contains Season 2 episodes 5–8: 'The Dark Defender,' 'Dex, Lies, and Videotape,' 'That Night, a Forest Grew' and 'Morning Comes.' When the bodies of Dexter's victims are discovered, his own department launches a hunt for the killer the press dubs the 'Bay Harbor Butcher.' Debra struggles to recover from her ordeal, Rita — suspecting an addiction — sends Dexter to Narcotics Anonymous, and Sergeant James Doakes stalks him, convinced he is tied to the Ice Truck Killer murders.

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Rose, a struggling Hollywood actress haunted by an invasive childhood trauma, is pushed to the edge by life-changing news, a high-pressure audition, and the controlling schemes of her boyfriend's mother. Fleeing to the small mountain town of Idyllwild during a forest fire, she hides out in a kitschy honeymoon motel, the Crown Inn, where she finds herself trapped in a twisted, magenta-tinged fairytale. Within its humming halls her inner demons take physical form - a deranged bellhop, a pickled proprietress, the sharp-tongued seductress in the next room - and a confrontation with the deepest sources of her pain looms.

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Cantankerous 1930s bookie Sorrowful Jones reluctantly accepts a little girl as collateral — a 'marker' — for a gambler's bet, and is stuck with her when her father never returns. Forced into partnership with a dangerous mobster's casino scheme and drawn to the indebted heiress Amanda, the joyless bookie makes a bumbling attempt at fatherhood.

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At the highest levels of imperial China, palace intrigue mixes with sex and a little torture. The story is told through Li, a servant who is not quite the eunuch he pretends to be, as he carries out the young emperor's bidding - indulging his voyeurism, rescuing his favorite concubine from a brothel, and dealing with his enemies. A full-on Hong Kong Category III spectacle of court power, lust and manipulation.

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Shampoo gives us a day in the life of George, a Beverly Hills hairdresser and Lothario who runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to scrape together the money to open his own salon are continually sidetracked by the distractions presented by his lovers-played brilliantly by Goldie Hawn, Julie Christie, and Lee Grant (in an Oscar-winning performance). Star Warren Beatty dreamed up the project, cowrote the script with Robert Towne, and enlisted Hal Ashby as director, and the resulting carousel of doomed relationships is an essential seventies farce, a sharp look back at the sexual politics and self-absorption of the preceding decade.