(0)Mike Nichols
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From the humble beginnings of a frontier army camp, Fort Worth transformed into a city as cattle drives, railroads, oil and national defense drove its economy. During the tremendous growth, the landscape and cultural imprint of the city changed drastically, and much of Cowtown was lost to history. Witness the birth of western swing music and the death of a cloud dancer. See mansions of the well-heeled and saloons of the well-armed. Meet two gunfighters,...
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1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ambitious wife, Susan. Running against the odds, the Stantons need all the help they can get from their extremely colorful political team. Together, they take off on a hilarious, heart-wrenching and ultimately history-making roller coaster ride to the top.
3) Working girl
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A secretary with a head for business takes advantage of her boss's bed-ridden condition and arranges a business deal. This title has been Repackaged.
A bright Wall Street secretary rises to a professional position by posing as her demanding boss after the boss is injured.
A romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess Mcgill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy but villainous...
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
5) The birdcage
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
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1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
7) Closer
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. After some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer who also attracts him. From there, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna and Alice's fiancé, Larry, take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt and anger.
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson was best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he was a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
10) Wit
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devastating illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
11) Catch-22
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 352 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying...
13) Zappa
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"With unfettered access to the Zappa Vault and all its archival footage, ZAPPA explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career that never shied away from the political turbulence of its time. Alex Winter's assembly features appearances by Frank's widow Gail Zappa and several of Frank's musical collaborators including Mike Keneally, Ian Underwood, Steve Vai, Pamela Des Barres, Bunk Gardner, David Harrington, Scott Thunes, Ruth Underwood,...
14) The graduate
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1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A recent college graduate from an affluent family is seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, then subsequently falls in love with her daughter.
19) Robert Catch 22
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An evening of readings and discussion: Heller's friends and colleagues including Christopher Buckley, Robert Gottlieb, and Mike Nichols. They revisit his classic black comedy set at the end of World War II, one of the most important books about patriotism, honor, and the absurdities of war and beauracracy of the 20th century. The conversation is led by Lesley Stahl. An excerpt is performed by Scott Shepherd (Gatz).