Stanley Tucci
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen"--
Tucci grew up in an Italian family that put great import on food: the quality of ingredients, the careful preparation, the passing on of family recipes and cultural culinary traditions. He has written cookbooks, become involved in food-related charities, and has probably spent more time focusing on food than he does...
2) Blackout
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Language
English
Description
It was a hot, summer night in the city when the power went out. Everything changed...but that was not necessarily a bad thing. Not normal can be fun. Narrated by Stanley Tucci with music by David Masnfield. Includes an interview with John Rocco.
3) I'm Fast!
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Language
English
Description
Join the fun as a train pulling a long, heavy load races a speedy, little car across the country through the mountains, through the desert, through a blizzard. Narrated by Stanley Tucci. Directed by Galen Fott with music by David Mansfield. DVD includes a school visit with Kate and Jim McMullan.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century. His remarkable appeal, which continues to this day, was in his seemingly effortless ability to pull an audience in to his intimate, laid-back voice and innate charm. For over three decades, through radio, film, television, and records he reigned supreme. A brilliant entrepreneur, Crosby played an important role in the development...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the center of the circle is a woman ahead of her time. Welcome to the Algonquin Hotel, the hottest spot for thinkers, writers, and satirists in 1920s New York. At the head of your table are such notables as Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, and Mrs.Dorothy Parker, the head of this vicious circle. With a commitment to gathering once a week, this union of intellects delves into deep conversations about everything from social injustices...
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English
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Description
“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times
In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks...
In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Meet Walter Winchell, the columnist, radio commentator and TV personality who pioneered the gossip driven and politically charged journalism that dominates today. At his peak, his audience was 50 million, two out of three American adults.
9) Supernova
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Devoted partners Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci) are traveling across England, visiting people and places from their past. Following a life-changing diagnosis, secret plans thoroughly test their love like never before.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in with his intimate, laid-back voice and innate charm. Narrated by Stanley Tucci and directed by Robert Trachtenberg, this film explores the life and legend of this iconic performer, revealing a personality far more complex than the image the public had only thought they'd known.
11) The lovely bones
Publisher
Dreamworks Pictures
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.
"It pulses and blooms and swells with bright hues and strange vistas."--A.O. Scott, New York Times
"The film certainly plays well..."--Hollywood Reporter
"...packed with privileged moments."--Time Magazine
"...jolting...
12) The Children Act
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Smart, elegant, and deeply moving, THE CHILDREN ACT stars two-time **Academy Award**-winner Emma Thompson in a powerful and riveting performance as Fiona Maye, a British High Court judge who, in the midst of a marital crisis, must rule on a life-changing legal case concerning the survival of a teenage boy. Fiona is intensely dedicated to her profession, never finding time to have her own children while fully assuming the immense responsibility of...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A movie producer tries to save his two films from falling apart while managing the chaos of two failed marriages. Based on the best-selling memoir by veteran Hollywood producer Art Linson and directed by Academy Award-winning Barry Levinson. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Sundance Film Festival**.
15) Conspiracy
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the conference at Wannsee organized by SS General Reinhard Heydrich where the "final solution to the Jewish question" was to be decided.
16) Supernova
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
17) Julie & Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julia Child's life with her husband in Paris is intertwined with the life of thirty-year-old Queens resident Julie Powell who decides to cook every recipe in Child's book "Mastering the art of French cooking" over the course of one year.
18) Shall we dance?
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him. Special features include: deleted scenes, dance video, and featurettes.
"A totally delightful film overflowing with passion for life, love - and ballroom dancing."--Reeltalk Movie Reviews
"A funny, well-acted adult...
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Language
English
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Description
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution—a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision...
First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision...
20) Blackout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
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