TV Guide: Robert Palm

Video: The Samoas Jewels of the Pacific

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:07:27 -0500

The South Pacific has long been thought of as the perfect escape, paradise on earth. For many, including Robert Louis Stevenson, paradise was narrowed down to Samoa. The Samoan Islands are jewels of extraordinary beauty; magnificent beaches, turquoise lagoons, swaying palm trees, lush vegetation and fragrant blooms. "Talofa Lava" is the Samoan's welcome. It includes you in their world, in their culture, in their way of life, rich with old traditions and yet in time with the modern world. The majority of Samoans are full blooded Polynesians who, guided only by the stars, sailed and populated the Pacific over 2,000 years ago. Samoa is regarded as the "Cradle of Polynesia". American Samoa boasts six inhabited islands and Western Samoa four; the islands enjoy an even, tropical climate and are quite diverse. Deep harbors, rivers, waterfalls, lush vegetation and stark lava flows give way to incredible lagoons and white sand beaches. Resorts are plentiful, from five stars to secluded beach bu

Video: The Samoas Jewels of the Pacific

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:07:27 -0500

Video: Mob Story

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:13:54 -0500

On the run from a US Senate investigation, a New York mobster leaves the Big Apple for a restful vacation in Palm Springs but all does not go according to plan. Starring Margot Kidder, John Vernon, Robert Morelli

Video: Mob Story

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:13:54 -0500

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:29:54 -0500

Academy Award-winner Robert Towne writes and directs Ask the Dust, set under the brutally sunny skies of Depression-era Los Angeles. Based on novelist John Fante s masterpiece, Towne s interpretation of Ask the Dust focuses on a city exotic and vulgar, glamorous and raunchy a place of heat and dust. Full of imports palm trees from Egypt and people from everywhere in search of health and wealth, fame and fortune L. A. is the city of first and last resort, where all dreams are supposed to come true. So it is for Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a son of Italian immigrants who dreams of becoming a famous novelist and marrying a beautiful blonde, and Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek), a Mexican who longs to marry a WASP and shed her last name. In a time when relations between Anglos and people of Mexican descent hang by tattered threads, Bandini and Camilla collide with one another, fighting the city and themselves to make their dreams come true.

Video: Ford Pastor Discusses Services

CBS News — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:16:29 -0500

The Rev. Robert Certain is the Ford family pastor at Saint Margaret's Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, Calif. Certain discusses Friday's prayer service for Gerald Ford with Tracy Smith.

Video: Palm Beach Story, The -- (Movie Clip) Wienie King

TCM — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:54:39 -0500

Destitute Gerry (Claudette Colbert) fails to evade prospective tenant Robert Dudley (as "The Wienie King") in her Park Avenue apartment in Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story, 1942.

Video: Farms Harvest Wind For Energy

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:26:04 -0500

Just west of Palm Springs California stands one of the most productive farms in the country, a wind farm with its machines being some of the biggest in the world. Discover how they work in this Modern Marvels video.

Video: American Gothic Season 1

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:34:50 -0500

From executive producers Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, and Robert Palm comes American Gothic, the 90's cult classic about a small town in South Carolina that just might be hell on Earth. Ridiculously involving, relentlessly addictive and filled with unforgettable characters, it's a fan favorite - a triumph of writing and atmosphere - that will chill your bones!

Video: Globe Trekker: Tahiti & French Polynesia

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:23:08 -0500

The 118 islands of French Polynesia are specks in the vast Pacific Ocean. Explorers and pirates came here looking for treasure, but found white sand, palm trees and hula girls. A mix of French culture and Pacific charm, French Polynesia is one of the world's dream tourist destinations. Traveler Ian Wright starts his journey on the legendary island of Bora Bora before flying to Tahiti. From there he heads to the remote outer islands of Tubuai and Rangiroa and then west to independent Samoa. After a stopover in Moorea he ends his journey back in Tahiti at the top of Mount Aorai. Along the Way... Judge the Mr. Tahiti contest. Take part in a Tahitian wedding. Swim with stingrays in Bora Bora. Reenact Mutiny on the Bounty on Tubuai Island. Visit Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Samoa, the inspiration for his famous Treasure Island.

Video: Globe Trekker: Tahiti & French Polynesia

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:56:52 -0500