Margaret Cho
1) Fat Sex
Author
Series
Description
If there are two subjects that are universally fascinating and rife with controversy, they are sex and fat. Though our culture is obsessed with both, the two commingling are sometimes seen as offensive, obscene, or even grotesque. Fat people are not viewed as sexual beings. Of course, this perception is far from accurate. Fat people have normal and peculiar sex lives, just like everyone else. A compilation of true stories, cultural references, and...
3) Beautiful
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Shot at the Long Beach Terrace Theater, Cho's stand-up concert film, "Beautiful", explores the good, bad, and downright ugly in beauty, and the unattractive politicians and marketers who shape our world"--Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 567 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Life can really throw you curves--especially in this breakthrough comedic drama. "Drop dead Diva" tells the story of Deb, a shallow model who dies in a sudden accident. By a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, her soul resurfaces in the body of Jane, a smart, plus-sized and recently deceased attorney. As she confronts the challenges of her adventurous new life, love and career, she must learn to reconcile her beauty queen ways with her...
Publisher
IFC Films
Formats
Description
After a break-up with his boyfriend, journalist David Thorpe embarks on a hilarious and touching journey of self-discovery, confronting his anxiety about "sounding gay". Enlisting acting coaches, linguists, friends, family, total strangers, and celebrities, he quickly learns that many people, both gay and straight, often wish for a different voice. What starts as a personal journey becomes a chance to unpack layers of cultural baggage concerning sexuality,...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of Barry Crimmins, a beer-swilling, politically outspoken and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 70s and 80s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. But beneath Crimmins' gruff, hard drinking, curmudgeonly persona lay an undercurrent of rage stemming from his long-surpressed and horrific abuse as a child, a rage that eventually found its way out of the comedy clubs and into the political arena.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (561 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the car accident that left Grayson in a coma, Jane finds herself struggling with her desire to reveal herself as Deb when he wakes up; Teri enlists Grayson to help her firefighter boyfriend after he is sued for rescuing a neighbor from a burning building; Parker organizes a bachelor party for Grayson, who incidentally gives a stripper legal advice that leads to her subsequent firing; Jane is held at gunpoint while picking up the wedding...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (284 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 1960s, an unknown event at the Sunshine Motel caused ordinary things in Room 10 to transform into items of wonder: indestructible objects with extraordinary powers that are sought by those who know their secrets.
Publisher
Art21,Inc
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 7 1/2 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents 37 diverse artists, taking viewers into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative processes, and sources of inspiration.
Series
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discusses ways in which the media openly degrades women. As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. Features commentary from many influential women in media and politics....
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jennifer Kroot's documentary about the creator of Tales of the city moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of '70's San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.