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(0)Andrew Bergman
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Series
Language
English
Description
A trip to the West Coast lands Jack LeVine in a tangled Hollywood murder web After nearly a decade of churning out hits, Warner Bros. screenwriter Walter Adrian wants a raise on his weekly $2,500 salary. He thinks a thousand dollars more is fair-but the studio's counteroffer is low, and dropping fast. Something is wrong, and he thinks it may have to do with communism. Though he insists he isn't a Red, Adrian has no way of proving it. He flees to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When their maestro is kidnapped, an orchestra hires Jack LeVine to find him Jack LeVine has been in a vicious funk since his father died in 1948. But after more than a year sulking in his apartment, joylessly listening to ball games, news reports, and classical music programs on the radio, the private detective has gone back to work in his freshly renovated office. His depression has passed, but those months glued to the radio are about to come in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Searching for a chorus girl's stag film, Jack LeVine stumbles on a sinister political plot Like all chorus girls, Kerry Lane yearns to get her name on the marquee. After years of high-kicking, she lands a bit part in a Broadway smash hit which should lead to better things. The only thing holding her back is her past: specifically a series of stag films from her days as a struggling wannabe film starlet. When a blackmailer demands a payoff to keep...
6) James Cagney
Author
Publisher
Galahad Books
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Biography of James Cagney, an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film.
Author
Publisher
Donald I. Fine
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Sleepless Nights is the first major novel by Andrew Bergman - screenwriter, director, and a talented and powerful new voice in contemporary fiction. Sleepless Nights is a novel about a Jewish family, the parents of which have survived the Holocaust, and the dark currents of incest among them. As in Nabokov's Lolita, there is in Andrew Bergman's novel an underlying hunger for love and acceptance that speaks not only for this family, whose nights are...
8) The freshman
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Clark Kellogg, a naive student, accepts a job working for Carmine Sabatini, a powerful New York importer. As Clark finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into an ingenious scam, the FBI asks him to snitch on his colorful employer.
10) The Freshman
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Clark Kellogg, a naive student, accepts a job working for Carmine Sabatini, a powerful New York importer. As Clark finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into an ingenious scam, the FBI asks him to snitch on his colorful employer.
11) Striptease
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Erin Grant takes a job as a stripper in order to get money to appeal for custody of her daughter from her lunatic ex-husband. Her dancing attracts the attention of a deranged Congressman who will stop at nothing to possess her.
12) Fletch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun,...
13) Striptease
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Erin Grant (Demi Moore) takes a job as a stripper in order to get money to appeal for custody of her daughter from her lunatic ex-husband. Her dancing attracts the attention of a deranged Congressman who will stop at nothing to possess her.
15) So fine
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Bobby Fine teaches comparative literature at a New England university. Comparatively speaking, he's a babe in the woods. His father Jack is a hard-luck 7th Avenue dress merchant in heavy debt to a 7-foot loan shark. To pay up, Jack gives up the business--and Bobby finds himself part of the deal. So fine is a madcap comedy that gives you a sneak preview of the hottest fashion craze since hula hoops: see-through jeans!
16) Blazing saddles
Language
English
Formats
Description
Never give a saga an even break! Blazing Saddles is an iconoclastic, not-politically-correct parody; one of the 1970s most successful and popular films. Every clichéd element from every Western ever made is turned upside down and inside out, while retaining all the familiar caricatures--eh, characters--of the genre: a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of pure folk. Mel Brooks redefined film comedy, and proved that even sophomoric,...
17) The in-laws
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When two fathers of an engaged couple meet for the first time, they know they are very different. One is a podiatrist, happy with his quiet life. The other is a CIA operative, who lives life on the edge, and when circumstances gets out-of-hand, involves the other in an arms-smuggling sting.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Lang (Cage) is a neighborhood cop with a heart of gold -- and a money-hungry wife Muriel (Perez) who's always looking for a way to cash in. When she asks Charlie to buy a lottery ticket, he agrees, them impulsively promises half the winnings to a waitress, Yvonne (Fonda). When their numbers hit, the real fun begins, as Muriel learns to live large while Charlie and Yvonne learn to love again."--Back of container.
"Charlie Lang is a neighborhood...
19) The in-laws
Series
Criterion collection volume 823
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered dentist becomes involved with his daughter's father-in-law's bizarre life with the CIA, which may or may not even be true.
20) Isn't she great
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Comedy based on the life of best-selling novelist Jacqueline Susann.