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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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...
3) Redbelt
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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...
4) The party
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A no-name actor is invited to an exclusive party at a film producer's home after a clerical error gets him on the list, where he proceeds to accidentally dismantle the producer's carefully staged event.
5) King Kong
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
The Big Apple is besieged by the monstrous ape, King Kong. The gargantuan ape battles attacking aircraft high above the streets of New York and plunges to his death from the top of the World Trade Center.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The unemployed actors of the Galaxy Quest television series are reduced to convention appearances and store openings. But when a distressed interstellar cadre of benevolent aliens beam Jason Nesmith and his crew of has-beens onto their ship, they have the misguided hope that these 'historical documents' can defeat a genocidal space warlord.
7) Valentino
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The story opens with the super-star actor Rudolph Valentino in his coffin, dead at the age of thirty-one. As one by one the women in his life come to pay homage to "The Sheik," Valentino's rise from tea dance gigolo to screen idol unfolds in a series of extravagant flashbacks - highlighted by beautifully rendered sepia-toned recreations of his silent films. Freely mixing fact and fiction, director Russell, a man of ideas as well as baroque images,...
8) Frances
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Depicts Frances Farmer, the notorious 1930s movie star whose impassioned opinions and outspoken behavior created scandal throughout the industry. But when she was betrayed by the studio system and committed to a mental asylum by her domineering mother, Frances descended into a madness that shocked the world--Container.
Series
The Beverly hillbillies volume season 3
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Jed is still a kind and sensible man with his millions. Things happen around him without he knowing it. Granny is an excentric who still thinks she knows how to deal with every situation. Elly May is still beautiful and naive. Jethro is Jed's nephew who is still as strong as he is dumb. Mr. Drysdale is the greedy banker who will do anything to keep the Clampett money in his bank.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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.
12) Hollywoodland
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
On June 16, 1959, police detectives arrive at a Benedict Canyon home to find Superman dead, felled by a single gunshot to the head. LAPD calls it suicide, but Reeves' grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, isn't so sure. She hires private detective Louis Simo to validate her suspicions, centered on George's fiancée, aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon. Simo turns up suspects 2 and 3: Toni Mannix, aging trophy wife to MGM honcho Eddie Mannix, a tough little...
13) All about Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 1003
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Joseph L. Mankiewicz's devastatingly witty Hollywood classic, backstage is where the real drama plays out. One night, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo's life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including George Sanders's acid-tongued...
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