Swoosie Kurtz
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a wise, warmhearted memoir that celebrates her extraordinary life and stellar career, Swoosie Kurtz shares just the right combination of personal misadventure and showbiz lore, candidly reflecting on the right choices that empowered her, the wrong choices that enlightened her, and the intimate journey of caring for an aging parent.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The magic school bus gets lost in space: The students go on a planetarium field trip and are magically transported out of the earth's atmosphere into space where they visit each of the nine planets. The magic school bus out of this world: The students learn about gravity and meteors as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth. The magic school bus taking flight: The students learn about the basics of aerodynamics after they enter a model airplane contest....
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (383 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ned can bring the dead to life briefly when he touches them, and must touch them again to reverse the spell. Along with a private eye, he uses his gift to help solve crimes and collect the rewards.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An eight-year-old boy spends the holidays in New Orleans with a father he's never known. He dreams of finding Santa, snow and a relationship with his father, but instead finds a man who cares more about making a fast buck.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a deadly storm descends upon Earth, officials scramble to pinpoint the cause. Though global warming is the suspect, scientist Faith Clavell realizes that something else is triggering the extreme weather. She must enter the storm itself to stop it.
6) Living proof
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Dr. Dennis Slamon, an oncologist and researcher who must make sacrifices in his personal life while on his quest to find a cure for breast cancer.
7) Harvey
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harmless tippler Elwood P. Dowd confides in a 6-foot rabbit called Harvey that only he can see.
8) Duplex
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD)(89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alex and Nancy are a young couple in New York City with a bright future ahead of them. But when they buy a new home, it comes with one feature they didn't expect: an upstairs rent-controlled tenant, Mrs. Connelly, who isn't quite as easy-going or frail as Alex and Nancy originally thought. As their blissful life begins to seriously fray around the edges, it's then that they start to wonder: if they can't somehow move Mrs. Connelly out.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Lexcorp accidentally unearths the intergalactic serial killer Doomsday, Superman must battle the creature head-on in the fight of his life. The world collectively mourns their fallen hero and humanity realizes it will never feel truly safe again. Superman's enemies rejoice, all but Lex Luthor, who grieves the loss in his own demented manner, setting off a chilling chain of events that even he couldn't have foreseen.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (357 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (357 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
13) True stories
Series
Criterion collection volume 951
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unpaged : color illustrations).
Language
English
Description
"Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation ot what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic...
14) Get over it
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the tale of a high school boy who is down on his luck. He loses his girlfriend and will do anything to get her back--including quitting the basketball team and trying out for an acting role in a Shakespeare play. But as soon as he stops moping over his break up, he begins to take interest in his best friend's little sister, and finds that romance is everywhere.
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 video disc (136 minutes): sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Robin Williams played T.S. Garp in The World According to Garp, two totally original American icons met: a leading comic actor of our time and the character whose loopy adventures made John Irving's novel a literary milestone and runaway bestseller. Fans of Williams' dramatic work in Dead Poets Society and his Oscar winner* Good Will Hunting will also savor his Garp, a sweet-natured writer whose life is a weird minefield of violence, adultery,...