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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 Movie classics puzzle, 1 Funniest moments of comedy DVD set, 1 Sound of Music Soundtrack, 1 Dancing with elephants (paperback), 1 Everyday fashions of the fifties (paperback) : 1 clear plastic container ; 15 x 171/2 x 6 in.
Language
English
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Description
Six-disc DVD set of rarely seen performances, home movies and bloopers from movies, radio, television, and stand-up comedy.
Description for Dancing with elephants: Based on the popular blog of the same name, Dancing With Elephants includes insightful interviews with chronic disease experts Toni Bernhard, Lucy Kalanithi, and Patch Adams. Sawatsky's landmark book provides support that only a fellow traveler down this road can offer. If you like touching...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film. Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, 1980. With a budget of $3.5 million it went on to make nearly $200 million in sales and has influenced a multitude of comedians on both sides of the camera. Surely You Can't Be Serious is the first-ever oral history of the making of Airplane! by the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1980, a group of authority-defying comedy geniuses from Saturday Night Live, the Second City improv troupe, and the National Lampoon magazine created the funniest sports movie ever made. Maybe the funniest movie ever made, period. This timeless snobs-versus-slobs story of working-class kids and the white-collar buffoons who make them carry their golf bags in the hot summer sun has sex, drugs, and one very memorable candy bar. But...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
vii, 192 pages : pages : illustrations : illustrations ; 23 cm ; cm.
Language
English
Description
"Part One of this exploration of screwball comedies and their later offspring begins midcentury discussing the careers and love of popular super stars. Writers and directors are given their due. Part Two, takes an in depth look at the films, from the genre's inception and the stars that appear in them, ending with some thoughts about the future"--
8) Forrest Gump
Series
Language
English
Description
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the 80s and the 90s, its slow decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre"--
13) The annotated Abbott and Costello: a complete viewer's guide to the comedy team and their 38 films
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Abbott and Costello were the most popular comedians of the 1940s, with burlesque-inspired routines that enthralled audiences on both radio and television. However, their films have oddly not received the same level of attention from critics and writers as those of other comedy teams. This book is a scene-by-scene, film-by-film guide to their movies, making a compelling case for their inclusion at the very top table of comic artists. Featuring new...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom and Jerry scrap, chase and collide, when they cover quite a bit of geography, witness history and play silly sports aplenty. Learn about the Declaration and the first airplane. Music rules in misadventures and Flamenco dance-off and a hip-hoppin' fued. Run hot and cold with some roaring lion lunacy, tail-kicking kangaroo action, chilly silliness, cockeyed hockey and an all-out snowball war.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Double feature second-DVD set.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sleepless in Seattle : After his mother dies, an eight year old boy confides on a radio phone-in that he wants to find someone for his father to marry. His plea is heard by a journalist who is in an unhappy engagement.
A league of their own : In 1943, Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up ballplayer whose big league days are over, is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are serving in WWII. Reluctant at first,...
16) Down with love
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A feminist writer in the early 1960's who is promoting her book 'Down With Love' has sworn off love. A New York City journalist thinks he doesn't need love. See what happens when they fall for each other in this old-fashioned romantic comedy.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term, the country was isolationist, American workers got the forty hour work week, Walt Disney Studios released Fantasia and Pinocchio, Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time, and Glen Miller wrote the decade's signature song, In the Mood.
Til the clouds roll by: based on the life and music of Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern...
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 224) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 70's, you are part of Generation X. Your parents were baby boomers, part of the me generation. Your decade began with Richard Nixon; the Beatles broke up; Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida; Jumbo jets revolutionized commercial flight; the waterbed, Atari's video game Pong, the 8 track tape player; and the disco ball became 70's icons.
That's the way of the world: Saddled with a bubblegum pop band the record industry...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min. + 24 mins. extras) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If our political system is like a game of Monopoly, how can outsiders have a voice when only money speaks? John Ennis documents comical corruption, follows political newcomers, and uncovers intrigue in this colorful journey that connects the dots of Big Money in our ever-challenging election process.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 274 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 80s', your parents were the last wave of baby boomers. They, along with everybody else, were embracing the future with the personal computer. It was the decade of remarkable technology. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates became household names. MTV broadcasted the first music video; there was a home-video store in every neighborhood; and Pac-Man, was the best selling arcade game of all time.
Bail out: Three down-on-their-luck bounty...
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