James Garner
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From the international best-selling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories comes a new mystery genre: Clown noir!2015 Book of the Year, Chicago Writers Association!In Top Town, a ghetto full of washed-up circus lifers in the shadow of a big city, audiences come every night for cheap thrills, both wholesome and not. Fire eaters perform for gin money. Gypsies reveal the future (and for 20 bucks can make it happen). Daredevils cheat Death time...
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Following the international best-seller "PC Bedtime Stories" come these nurturing tales for pre-adults. These stories purge the cultural biases, sexism, speciesism, and other -isms from the "classics" that have been handed down from one social power structure to another. Plus new material: a chapter of "Rex Koko, Private Clown," from the award-winning mystery, Honk Honk, My Darling.
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As the year 2000 bears down, the best-selling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, James Finn Garner, confronts a series of monumental questions: Will people remember to order new checks from the bank? Did the invitation to the Kennedy New Year's party get lost in the mail again? Are we all poised on the brink of worldwide enlightenment or complete planetary destruction? Is it really worth investing in that Five-Year CD? 'Tonight,' in the...
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The hilarious sequel to the #1 phenomenon Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. "If we can cleanse these stories and put an end to the lies our children are spoon-fed while being spoon-fed...the world may finally become a decent place for persunkind and other, equally important species." -- James Finn Garner Spurred by the overwhelming success of the million-copy bestseller, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, James Finn Garner continues his quest...
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The #1 bestselling author of Once Upon a More Enlightened Time reads his Politically Correct holiday gift. Holiday tales have long delighted and entertained us, but until now they've always been burdened with society's skewed values and mores. Stories that reinforce the stifling class system (Dickens' A Christmas Carol), legitimize the stereotype of a merry, overweight patriarchal oppressor (Santa Claus in The Night Before Christmas) and justify the...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (364 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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From his no-frills mobile home in Malibu, wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator Jim Rockford solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles. From identity theft to death threats, Rockford uses his experience behind bars to get an inside edge on crooks even the police can't find.
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Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
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1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In an endearing comic love story, a gutsy divorced mother eager to make it as a horse trainer on a small desert ranch is courted by the town's most eligible widower and her ne'er-do-well ex-husband.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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5 videodiscs (ca. 1076 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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From his no-frills mobile home in Malibu, wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator Jim Rockford solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles. From identity theft to death threats, Rockford uses his experience behind bars to get an inside edge on crooks even the police can't find.
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MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A child's lie has life-shattering consequences in this daring adaptation of Lillian Hellman's celebrated play. Karen (Audrey Hepburn) and Martha (Shirley MacLaine) are the headmistresses of an exclusive school for girls. When they discipline a malicious little girl, the vindictive child twists an overheard comment into slander and accuses her teachers of questionable behavior. Soon, the scandalous gossip engulfs the school community with repercussions...
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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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5 videodiscs (ca. 1101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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From his no-frills mobile home in Malibu, wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator Jim Rockford solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles. In this season, Rockford chases down underworld mobsters, art thieves, an organ transplant ring and other criminals who never expect to find the world's most unlikely detective behind Rockford's easygoing, laid-back demeanor.
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Artist View Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A builder, Robert is visiting his ailing wife in a nursing home and is having problems getting a taxi home due to an intense snow storm. One of the doctors, Katherine offers him a lift home; however, their car gets stuck and they have to spend the night in an empty cabin nearby. They talk and bond, but afterwards seem to have difficulty beginning a relationship.
14) Hour of the gun
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : digital, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Find out what happened after the gunfight at the OK Corral when James Garner and Jason Robards saddle up as legendary lawmen Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.
15) The great escape
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Criterion collection volume 1027
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
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The true story of seventy-six allied airmen who plot a massive escape from Stalag 3, a maximum security prison in World War II.
17) Maverick
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Comedy about a handsome gambler, a charming lady scam artist and a lawman, all headed for a poker tournament held on a river boat with a $500,000 pot for the winner.
18) Space cowboys
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
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1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two former one-term presidents are framed in a scandal by the current president and pursued across the U.S. by armed agents. The two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence. As they scramble through the real America, they get an unexpected crash course in how their policies affected the citizens....
20) Up periscope
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Navy frogman under secret orders is whisked from a stateside romance to the perils of warfare in the South Pacific in 1942.