Eric Idle
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"From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candor"--
Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life in a memoir that takes us on a journey from his childhood in an austere boarding school through his successful career in comedy, television, theater, and film. With anecdotes sprinkled throughout involving close friends and luminaries,...
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A founding member of Monty Python and creator of Spamalot discusses his absurdly funny memoir of his remarkable journey from childhood in an austere boarding school, coming of age as a writer and comedian during the sixties and seventies, and his successful career in comedy, television, theater, and film. In conversation with David Hyde Pierce. (Added bonus: Eric is bringing his guitar, and there just might be a sing-along....)
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2 videodiscs (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
8) Casper
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Determined to get her hands on her father's hidden fortune, Carrigan is forced to hire an afterlife therapist to exorcise the ghosts that keep frightening her away. Dr. Harvey and his daughter, Kat, move in and soon Kat meets Casper, the friendliest ghost. But Casper's uncles are still determined to drive all the "fleshies" away.
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The all-American Griswold family wins a deluxe European vacation tour. Ecstatic Clark (who seems to have O.D.'d on "Father Knows Best" reruns) plans a getaway jammed with forced family togetherness, two weeks sure to become a treasure trove of golden Griswold memories. For the Griswolds, it's typical holiday road havoc.
10) Shrek the third
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 32 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When Shrek married Fiona the last thing he had in mind was becoming the next King of Far Far Away. But when Shrek's father-in-law, King Harold, suddenly croaks, that is exactly what he faces. He recruits Donkey and Puss in Boots to bring back Arthur, the rightful heir to the throne. Meanwhile back in the kingdom, Fiona finds out that she is pregnant and the jilted Prince Charming storms the city with an army of fairy tale villains to seize the throne....
12) The Boxtrolls
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 37 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Boxtrolls, these box-wearing, quirky, mischievous creatures have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save...