Stanley Tucci
1) Blackout
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It was a hot, summer night in the city when the power went out. Everything changed...but that was not necessarily a bad thing. Not normal can be fun. Narrated by Stanley Tucci with music by David Masnfield. Includes an interview with John Rocco.
2) I'm Fast!
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Join the fun as a train pulling a long, heavy load races a speedy, little car across the country through the mountains, through the desert, through a blizzard. Narrated by Stanley Tucci. Directed by Galen Fott with music by David Mansfield. DVD includes a school visit with Kate and Jim McMullan.
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xviii, 232 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Stanley Tucci's association with wonderful foods began for fans with the movie Big Night and resonated in his role as Julia Child's husband in Julie & Julia. But well before these films, he was enjoying innovative homemade Italian meals throughout his childhood, when family and food were nearly inseparable and cooking was always a familial venture. Now, in a completely new, family-focused cookbook, Tucci captivates food lovers' imaginations with recipes...
5) Being Poirot
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1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After 25 years playing one of television's most beloved characters, David Suchet explores why fans have always gravitated towards the great Hercule Poirot. Suchet shares his experience of portraying the iconic detective as camera crews follow his preparations and join him on set for the final, emotional days of filming. He also returns to Agatha Christie's summer home in Devon--where he met the author's family after first being cast as Poirot--and...
6) Supernova
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color, with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in with his intimate, laid-back voice and innate charm. Narrated by Stanley Tucci and directed by Robert Trachtenberg, this film explores the life and legend of this iconic performer, revealing a personality far more complex than the image the public had only thought they'd known.
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6 videodiscs (1035 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Theodore Hoffman is a prominent defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. After successfully defending the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a lurid murder trial, he is now involved in the defense of Neil Avedon. Neil is a famous young actor who has had severe drug and alcohol problems and was subsequently charged with the murder, after Cross was acquitted. This single case will run an entire television season (interspersed with...
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, set out on a cross-country bus trip from California to New York to visit the World's Fair. They also decided to record it, with several 16 mm movie cameras and audio tape. Compiled from more than 40 hours of footage shot during the journey, it was the magical mystery tour--fueled by both the countercultural sentiments of the time and lots of LSD--that became legend. The participants...
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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Discover the story of Chef Jacques Pépin (b. December 18, 1935), a young immigrant with movie-star looks, a charming Gallic accent, and a mastery of cooking and teaching so breathtaking he became an early food icon-joining James Beard and Julia Child among the handful of Americans who transformed the way the country views the food world.
11) Submission
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student. When lines are crossed, it becomes unclear who is the victim and who is the victimizer.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Citizens living in Fortitude, an Arctic town hailed as the safest place on Earth, are rocked to the core by the murder of one of their own. A detective is quickly flown in from out-of-town to assist the local Chief of Police with the investigation of the town's first-ever violent crime and the two men must work together despite the deep mistrust each has for the other.
13) Beethoven
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Newton family is unprepared for the chaos that enters their lives when the cute, frisky St. Bernard puppy they adopt grows into an enormous, drooling disaster-prone pooch named Beethoven!
14) The terminal
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1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck in at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion. Gupta the hilarious Indian custodian; Enrique who transports food; Torres the...
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2 videodiscs (328 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Alex Ventura, a young and inexperienced diplomat, leads a team of explorers and experts to recover the undersea treasure stolen by Frank Wild, an adventurer who crosses the world looting common heritage from the depths of the sea.
16) The hunger games
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1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.
17) Night hunter
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A weathered lieutenant, his police force, and a local vigilante are all caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a recently arrested, troubled man who's linked to years of female abductions and murders.
18) The hoax
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the more money gets thrown at them. Inspired by the unbelievable...
19) Burlesque
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1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger than life voice causes a charismatic entrepreneur to make...
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jack the Giant Slayer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed...