Brian Grazer
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xv, 300 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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For decades, film and TV producer Brian Grazer has scheduled a weekly "curiosity conversation" with an accomplished stranger. From scientists to spies, and adventurers to business leaders, Grazer has met with anyone willing to answer his questions for a few hours. These informal discussions sparked the creative inspiration behind many of Grazer's movies and TV shows, including Splash, 24, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Arrested Development, 8 Mile,...
Author
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198 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
Much of Brian Grazer's success--as a #1 New York Times bestselling author, Academy Award-winning producer, father, and husband--comes from his ability to establish genuine connections with almost anyone. In Face to Face, he takes you around the world and behind the scenes of some of his most iconic movies and television shows, like A Beautiful Mind, Empire, Arrested Development, American Gangster, and 8 Mile, to show just how much in-person encounters...
3) Bowfinger
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywood's biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film.
4) Inside man
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
5) Sgt. Bilko
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sgt. Ernie Bilko is the leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces. Instead of training his troops for battle, he passes on his legacy of gambling and shunning responsibility. Times get tough however, when the base is threatened with a shutdown, and a by-the-book adversary, Major Thorn, is intent on taking Bilko's reputation down with it. Now, all bets are on Bilko to drum up his biggest scheme yet to save...
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English
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When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovers that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian with whom Langdon had been scheduled to meet. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a...
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 36 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Murphy stars as shy, kind, brilliant "calorically challenged" genetics professor Sherman Klump, who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of a beautiful faculty member. His experimental fat-reducing serum creates a slimmed down alter-ego, with startling results.
10) Spies like us
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Comedy about two would-be spies who are dupes in an evil mastermind's plan to take over the world.
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Join Curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat as they set out on a madcap cross-country adventure to reunite Kayla, a homesick elephant, with her family. This unlikely trio faces all types of comic calamities and colorful characters and in the end learn that with family, friends and determination you can achieve anything.
12) Parenthood
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1 videodisc (2 hrs., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
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4 videodiscs (500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The show offers an extraordinary look into the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein. Beyond his groundbreaking theories of relativity, witness Einstein's struggles to be a good husband and father, and a man of principle during a time of global unrest. A ten-episode journey of discovery guided by Einstein's wit, wisdom and insatiable thirst for knowledge.
14) Splash
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1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a workaholic who thinks he will never find love and the mermaid who comes ashore to find him and prove him wrong.
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Curious George is curious about things happening all around him and sometimes he just has to get in and try it for himself. You'll never be without a friend when Curious George investigates going to the doctor's office and when he lends a helping hand.
16) Liar liar
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Fletcher Reed is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish-- that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset-- his mouth-- has become his biggest liability.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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First, George accidentally frees some of the animals at the zoo. Then, George discovers that different animals make different tracks. Next, George learns that all living things behave in different ways. Then, George designs and builds the perfect pigeon perch. Next, George must gather and analyze evidence to prove that Gnocchi has been wrongfully accused. Then, George realizes that dogs come in all different shapes and sizes. Next, George learns a...
20) Tower heist
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage. They hire...