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Pub. Date
[2006]
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Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
Pub. Date
c2008
Formats
Description
Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder,' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
Series
Studio classic volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Description
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
4) Redbelt
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
A jujitsu master becomes corrupted by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. When a respected jujitsu master eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense dojo, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful path in life. The dedicated master's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, when he is manipulated into participating in ultimate fighting championships by a group of unscrupulous actors and fight promoters. Later, as...
Series
Entourage. The complete second season volume Second season
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
After three months shooting an indie film in NYC, the boys are back in LA. Eric is officially Vince's manager, Turtle is running the house. Drama is hoping to enhance his onscreen assets... and Ari is pushing a blockbuster superhero role for is golden-boy client.
7) The wager
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Michael Steele is ten days from the biggest night of his life. He has been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Achieving the height of career success, Michael is quickly cast in the role of a lifetime as the lead character in a classic struggle between good and evil when rumors about his morality and faith run rampant. Will he buckle with temptation or stay true to his beliefs?
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
When an aging Hollywood starlet invites her not-so-normal family home for the holidays, it is bound to be a Christmas no one will ever forget, no matter how hard they try. Her oddball family loses all self-control when a promising new director decides to join them for Christmas.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
For Vince, Eric, Drama and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane can be an intoxicating ride. This season, after an accident during the filming of his latest action flick, Vince develops a new lease on life that makes him even more difficult to manage, while each of the guys must decide which steps to take to map out their own futures, both personally and professionally.
11) The deal
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
12) Hollywoodland
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
America's sweetheart, Megan Valentine, has been humiliated in the public eye after her latest movie is declared a bomb. A crooked accountant has left her broke. After she wanders from the wreckage of a car accident, she enlists in the U.S. Army hoping in vain that it will change her life. Now, there's no star treatment, no stunt doubles and no second takes. But with the help of the other recruits, she'll find the motivation she needs to be all she...
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
HBO presents the final eight episodes of Entourage, the Emmy Award-winning hit. Vince, Eric, Drama, and Turtle have been through a lot over the years, chasing dreams, women, and good times. Through the highs and lows their friendship has kept them together. This season, find out if the guys can compete on their own in the fast lane of high-stakes Hollywood.
15) Galaxy quest
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Twenty years after the cancellation of the television program, Galaxy Quest, the stars cling to their careers appearing at sci-fi conventions and electronic store openings. When a distressed interstellar race mistakes the show for 'historical documents, ' Jason Nesmith and his crew of has-beens are unwittingly beamed up onto their alien ship with the misguided hope that they can defeat a genocidal space nemesis.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
The secret of my success: a mail room boy tries to climb the corporate ladder by posing as an executive.
For love or money: A concierge finds trouble when he falls in love with the mistress of one of his financial backers.
The hard way: A movie star and a hard-boiled detective join forces to find a killer.
Career opportunities: A small-town hustler is locked inside a store with a beautiful, wealthy woman.
Casual sex?: Two women embark on a quest...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
All about Eve: From the moment she glimpses her idol on Broadway, Eve Harrington strives to upstage Margo Channing. Using false charm to sway those around her, Eve steals Margo's role and disrupts the lives of anyone close to the actress.
Cleopatra: In this epic about power, love and betrayal, Elizabeth Taylor stars as the beguiling Queen of the Nile, who, in seducing two of Rome's greatest soldiers, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar, changed the course...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"Palomino": Photographer Smantha Taylor finds inspiration in a California ranch and the arms of rugged ranch hand Tate Jordan. "Secrets": After the TV cameras stop rolling, the cast of a popular new soap opera discover that the intrigue in their own lives is just as sensational as what is on screen. "Star": Years after their first fateful meeting, fame, fortune and circumstanace threaten to destroy a second chance at love for a beautiful singer and...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In Easter parade, Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him.
In Meet me in St. Louis, The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transferred to a nice position in New York.
In Singin' in the rain, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver...