Diane Keaton
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English
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The Academy Award-winning film star and best-selling author of Then Again describes the ups and downs of living in a beauty-obsessed world, recounting stories about a makeup artist's embarrassing advice, her trip to Victoria's Secret with her teen daughter and more.
2) Then again
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Physical Desc
xxvi, 265 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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English
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The award-winning actress documents her rise from an everyday girl to an acclaimed performer while exploring her defining relationship with her mother and how their shared and separate dreams influenced their experiences.
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English
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Reece McHenry is a used-clothing store owner and Carol Fitzsimmons is a seamstress working in that store. The film follows the story of their relationships from 1960s till present time (as well as the story of relationships between Reece's son Tom and Carol's daughter Katherine).
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English
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"Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural...
7) Hanging up
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Three sisters struggle to deal with each other and their aging father.
9) Radio days
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A look back at radio from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, focusing on an extended Jewish family, all avid radio listeners, and on a young woman who eventually succeeds as a radio gossip columnist.
10) The family Stone
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1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Everett brings his fiancé Meredith home to meet his family for the Christmas holiday. It's an instant disaster when Everett's parents, Sybil and Kelly, agree with their gay, deaf son Thad, pot-smoking son Ben and daughters Amy and Susannah that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Wanting to please Everett and get along with his family, Meredith recruits her sister Julie to help her thaw the Stone family cold front.
11) Reds
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2 videodiscs (195 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.
12) Manhattan
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
14) 5 flights up
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A married couple's attempts at selling their New York apartment don't quite go as planned over the course of one crazy weekend.
15) The family Stone
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Everett brings his fiancé Meredith home to meet his family for the Christmas holiday. It's an instant disaster when Everett's parents, Sybil and Kelly, agree with their gay, deaf son Thad, pot-smoking son Ben and daughters Amy and Susannah that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Wanting to please Everett and get along with his family, Meredith recruits her sister Julie to help her thaw the Stone family cold front.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts -- in the wallet!
17) And so it goes
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1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Realtor Oren Little, willfully obnoxious to anyone who might cross his path, wants nothing more than to sell one last house and retire in peace and quiet. Then, his estranged son drops off a granddaughter he never knew existed. Clueless about how to care for the abandoned nine-year-old, he pawns her off on his determined and lovable neighbor Leah and tries to resume his life. But little by little, Oren stubbornly learns to open his heart; to his family,...
18) Sleeper
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Miles Monroe enters the hospital in 1973 for a minor ulcer operation only to wake up 200 years later after being defrosted. As Miles tries to adjust to his new environment, he is re-programmed, de-programmed, chased by Big Brother-like police, and falls for Luna, an underground poet.
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband, then her husband loses the dog. She enlists the help of the few remaining guests left over from a wedding and a mysterious woman in a frantic search.
20) The young pope
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3 videodiscs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The fictional story of a newly elected pope, the youngest in history and first-ever American, whose audacity, independence, and arch-conservatism wreak havoc within the Vatican.