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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A bestselling romance novelist who doesn’t practice what she preaches, Felicity “Fizzy” Chen agrees to star in a reality TV show to find her perfect match if documentary filmmaker and single father Connor Prince meets her list of demands, and soon realizes her finds happily-ever-after may be behind the camera.
22) Get Shorty
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Series
Language
English
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Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark, who's behind in payments, to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 9
Language
English
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Description
When her mother, who is unexpectedly pregnant, receives a devastating diagnosis, Sonnet Romano must decide what really matters in life and, putting her career on hold, stays in Avalon and takes a job that forces her to work alongside her biggest mistake--award-winning filmmaker Zach Alger and Sonnet's former lover.
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English
Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A candid, hilarious look at women of a certain age and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
“Wickedly witty ... Crackling sharp ... Fireworks shoot out [of this collection].” —The Boston Globe
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron chronicles her
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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Description
"Nora Ephron: A Biography is the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration from critics and fans alike. Author Kristin Marguerite Doidge explores the tremendous successes and disappointing failures Ephron sustained in her career as a popular essayist turned screenwriter turned film director. She redefined the modern rom-com genre with bestselling books such as Heartburn and...
29) Last kiss
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Series
Language
English
Description
Hubbard's Point, Connecticutt. Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn't played a note of the music that was once her life's passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie's heartbroken girlfriend, Nell...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
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Description
From Hitchcock's early work in England to his most celebrated films, White analyzes Hitchcock's oeuvre and provides new interpretations. He also delves into Hitchcock's ideas about gender; his complicated relationships with "his women" as well as leading men. White also writes movingly of Hitchcock's devotion to his wife and lifelong companion, Alma, who made vital contributions to numerous classic Hitchcock films, and burnished his mythology. He...
31) Heartthrob
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Language
English
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Jericho Beaumont, a playboy actor whose tawdry past has dampened his career, signs a contract to work with Kate O'Laughlin, a successful Hollywood producer struggling to resist being drawn to him.
32) McCloud's woman
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Brooks shares never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances as he charts his rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts. From his career with Caesar's Your Show of Shows to his many films, and his Broadway musical adaption of The Producers, he offers insight into the inspiration behind the ideas for his boundary-breaking work, and shares details about many close friendships. -- adapted...
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood's favorite director, Samir Rathod, has...
39) Enfant terrible
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
It is the story of a child of his time of an extremely talented and dynamic filmmaker named Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who dreams of making movies about the cold-hearted, archaic Federal German society and the longing for respect and love of the outsider's foreigners, underprivileged groups, small convicts. His fulminant rise to being one of the most important directors in Europe correlates with his mental and physical fall and his early death.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen/standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs., 2 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Manufacturing on-screen violence has created an entertainment empire for fast-lane Hollywood producer Mike Max. But when Max comes into possession of details concerning a top-secret, anti-crime satellite surveillance system, the information turns this master of imaginary mayhem into a real-life victim. Escaping into L.A.'s shadowy underworld, Max is forced into a heart-stopping confrontation with forces beyond his comprehension and violence beyond...
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