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"When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy,as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of guilt and responsibility she will carry with her throughout...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he's a guaranteed good time-in bed and out-and that's exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She's immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his... personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox's spare bedroom....
43) Hitchcock
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Rental ed.]
Language
English
Description
Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife, Alma, as he sets out to make the film.
Author
Series
Behind the scenes volume 1
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Shojo beat edition.
Language
English
Description
Ranmaru spends his whole life not fitting in, until the oddballs of the Art Squad adopt him as one of their own. Ranmaru Kurisu comes from a family of hardy, rough-and-tumble fisherfolk and he sticks out at home like a delicate, artistic sore thumb. It’s given him a raging inferiority complex and a permanently pessimistic outlook. Now that he’s in college, he’s hoping to find a sense of belonging. But after a whole life of being left out, does...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Rubin worries that her tenth birthday will be ruined because it falls during Passover, but her mother's cousin Max, an actor, takes her with him to a movie studio, where she makes friends with an actress and a set carpenter.
Publisher
Public Media Distribution, L.L.C
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Perhaps no Hollywood Western captured the realities of the dangerous frontier better than True Grit. Explores this time in American history and how Rooster Cogburn and Mattie's encounters with hangings, shootouts, and kidnappings would have been part and parcel with life in the Wild West.
Author
Series
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Edgar and Allan Poe, great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe, managed to outwit the nefarious Professor P. Pangborn Perry, who is determined to kill one of them in order to prove a mad scientific theory. Now the boys are in New Orleans, about to play the young Poe in a feature film. But the role may cost them their lives, because now someone else wants them dead. But who? Can the twins, with the help of their co-stars,...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo pack.]
Language
日本語
Description
Pompo is a talented and gutsy producer in b3sNyallywood, b4s the movie-making capital of the world. Although she's known for B-movies, one-day Pompo tells her movie-loving but apprehensive assistant Gene that he will direct her next script: a delicate drama about aging and tormented creative genius, starring the legendary and Brando-esque actor Martin Braddock, and a young actress seeking her first break. But when the production heads towards chaos,...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo pack.]
Language
日本語
Description
Pompo is a talented and gutsy producer in b3sNyallywood, b4s the movie-making capital of the world. Although she's known for B-movies, one-day Pompo tells her movie-loving but apprehensive assistant Gene that he will direct her next script: a delicate drama about aging and tormented creative genius, starring the legendary and Brando-esque actor Martin Braddock, and a young actress seeking her first break. But when the production heads towards chaos,...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]-
Edition
Shojo Beat edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ranmaru Kurisu comes from a family of hardy, rough-and-tumble fisherfolk and he sticks out at home like a delicate, artistic sore thumb. It's given him a raging inferiority complex and a permanently pessimistic outlook. Now that he's in college, he's hoping to find a sense of belonging. But after a whole life of being left out, does he even know how to fit in?! It's two months into Ranmaru's college career, and if he's learned one thing, it's that...
52) Star of the show
Author
Series
Magic puppy volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Acting in a film for the first time, Tessa is lonely until she meets a magic puppy who helps her make friends and meet her favorite actor.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 65
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Asked by a Bollywood star for help protecting a valuable ruby, Geronimo Stilton and Hercule Poirat are inadvertently cast in the actress's film in spite of limited acting skills and are horrified when an anonymous thief makes off with the ruby.
54) NYPD Red 6
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"At the most lavish wedding of the season, the most brazen kidnapper in New York City takes 'Here Comes the Bride' as an invitation ... Reality star Erin Easton's 'Wedding of the Century' may have a cable crew documenting every extravagant bridal detail, but when 'Airhead Easton' disappears from the reception, it's no diva turn. Her dressing room is empty but for a blood-spattered wedding gown and signs of a struggle. Detective Kylie MacDonald of...
55) Hail, Caesar!
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
56) Saving Mr. Banks
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her difficult...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
From conception to phenomenon, the in-depth exploration of the filmmaking process for the movie "The matrix," a sneak-peek on-location look at the upcoming sequel, and a first look at "The matrix" anime.
the Matrix: In an anti-utopian future, the "real" world as we know it is nothing more than a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans have found a way out of the construct, and are now fighting...
Author
Publisher
Island Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1996
Language
English
Description
Attorney Nina Reilly, having given up criminal law after being shot during a heated murder trial, makes an exception when her client Terry London, a filmmaker involved in an invasion of privacy lawsuit, is brutally murdered and the accused is Kurt Scott, Nina's first lover and the biological father of her eleven-year-old son.
59) Tropic thunder
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 18
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Buzz is filming a movie about aliens from Outer Space, who capture Fly Guy and Buzz Boy--and our two heroes must outsmart the aliens, with some help from Dragon Dude and Fly Girl.
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