Paul Newman
Author
Language
English
Description
"The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throughout from Joanne Woodward, George Roy Hill, Tom Cruise, Elia Kazan...
2) Our Town
Author
Language
English
Description
Veteran actor-director Paul Newman makes his first Broadway appearance in four decades in this sold-out Westport Country Playhouse production of the Thornton Wilder classic. Newman plays the Stage Manager, who narrates the immortal tale of Grover's Corners, U.S.A., and its citizens. The superb cast of Our Town includes Frank Converse, Jane Curtin, Ben Fox, Jayne Atkinson, Stephen Spinella, and Maggie Lacy.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Butch and Sundance head up the infamous Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch's specialty is he's an idea man, while Sundance is a true gunfighter. When Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a relentless posse is sent to track them down. Finally able to outrun the posse, Butch suggests that he, Sundance and his girlfriend Etta, try Bolivia, thinking Bolivian banks will be easy targets. Based loosely on the exploits of the historical characters.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This work examines day-to-day childhood experiences during the Middle Ages, focusing on all social classes of children. Chapters cover birth and baptism; early childhood; playing; clothing; care and discipline; formal education; university education; career training for peasants, craftsmen, merchants, clergy and nobility; and coming of age"--Provided by publisher.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I doubt I would have grown up to be the writer and artist I became had I not fallen in love with D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths at the age of seven."—R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder
Kids can lose themselves in a world of myth and magic while learning important cultural history in this beloved classic collection of Greek mythology. Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published...
Kids can lose themselves in a world of myth and magic while learning important cultural history in this beloved classic collection of Greek mythology. Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published...
11) The verdict
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) is a boozy washed-up attorney with a long losing streak. So when he's handed a lucrative out-of-court settlement, everyone expects him to take the money and run. But Frank is tired of running.
12) Torn curtain
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"World-famous American scientist Michael Armstrong, and his fiancee/assistant, Sarah Sherman, travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themslves running for their lives from enemy agents"--Container.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of a Kansas City couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, whose lives are affected in different ways as their children grow up and leave home, and more adventurous friends bring new ideas into their home. Mrs. Bridge questions the life she has led, but her husband remains a firm believer in family and home, regardless of the changes in the world around him.
14) The hustler
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fast Eddie Felson is an arrogant, amoral hustler who haunts backstreet pool rooms fleecing anyone who'll pick up a cue and, determined to be acclaimed as the best, Eddie seeks out the legendary Minnesota Fats, who's backed by Bert Gordon, a predatory gambler, but Eddie discovers that his biggest rival might be his own self-image.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the development of the atomic bomb by the Manhattan Project, during World War II, with emphasis on the relationship between General Leslie Groves, the project director, and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
16) Empire Falls
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 195 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
17) The sting
Language
English
Description
1930s Chicago. After a friend is killed by the mob, two con men try to get even by attempting to pull off the ultimate "sting." No one is to be trusted as the twists unfold, leading up to the one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history.
19) Our town
Author
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The time is the early 20th century, in Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, and centers on the Webb and Gibbs families, who live next door to each other. Emily Webb and George Gibbs are two young people who grow up, fall in love with gentle glances and sweet words, get married, and are eventually separated by death. On the surface, there is all this nostalgia, but there are dark currents in Grovers Corners, little ironies and inconsistencies that are often...