Steve Martin
22) Pure drivel
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2 audio discs (approximately 140 min.) : digital, Dolby processed ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A collection of Martin's comic writings, some of which first appeared in the New Yorker.
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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How does a train stay on the tracks? What's going on inside a pogo stick? How do cranes work? And what happens when you flush a toilet? These and many more important questions are answered in this fascinating book. From toasters and telephones to hovercrafts and robots - the inner workings of machines big and small are brought to light using a stunning mix of cross-sections, close-ups and cutaways.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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English
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"'I've always looked upon cartooning as comedy's last frontier. I have done stand-up, sketches, movies, monologues, awards show introductions, sound bites, blurbs, talk show appearances, and tweets, but the idea of a one-panel image with or without a caption mystified me. I felt like, yeah, sometimes I'm funny, but there are these other weird freaks who are actually funny. You can understand that I was deeply suspicious of these people who are actually...
29) 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.
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story explores the life and work of one of the most loved, influential, and well-known artists, Johannes Vermeer. Images from his paintings have become part of our collective imagination and are instantly recognizable. In the new feature documentary, French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Cottet adopts an imaginative and sensitive approach to his subject, focusing on not only his work, but also his family life, including his conversion to Catholicism.
31) Shopgirl
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1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ray Porter is a buttoned-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle, a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away in a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
32) L.A. story
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.
33) Roxanne
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1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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C.D. Bales, an engaging small town fire chief, has only one tiny flaw -- his astonishingly long nose. The hilarity never stops as he contends with nose jokes, bumbling firemen, and his secrest love for a gorgeous astronomy student, Roxanne, who is attracted to another man.
34) Three amigos
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Three Amigos, a silent screen comedy act, arrive in a remote Mexican hamlet for what they think is a lucrative personal appearance, only to discover that they are expected to save the village from a terrorizing gang of bandits.
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1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 leaflet
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English
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The banjo has been an emblem of American culture for centuries, yet few realize the instrument's complicated, checkered past. Narrated by Steve Martin and featuring such banjo masters as Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs and Bela Fleck, goes beyond the stereotypes and delves into the musical odyssey of the banjo, from its African roots to the present day.
37) The lonely guy
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Larry and Warren try to eke out a successful social life in the Big Apple.
38) The jerk
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
39) 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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ix, 113 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
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English
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"Examines the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock's large-scale 1943 painting, Mural, and presents conservation findings made at the Getty Center in Los Angeles along with art-historical research"--Provided by publisher.