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Films of endearment : a mother, a son and the '80s films that defined us / by Koresky, Michael,1979-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Michael Koresky's most formative memories were simple ones. A movie rental. A bowl of popcorn. And a few shared hours with his mother. Through the films they watched together, he gained insight into his mother's perspective and the values she hoped to instill. Decades later and now a successful film critic, Koresky set out on a journey with his mother to discover more about their shared cinematic past. They rewatched ten films, one from every year of the '80s, each featuring women in leading roles. Films like 9 to 5, Terms of Endearment, The Color Purple and Working Girl played a powerful role in Michael's developing consciousness as a gay man and helped solidify an unspoken bond between mother and son.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Koresky, Michael, 1979-; Koresky, Michael, 1979-; Mothers and sons; Film critics; Gay men; Women in motion pictures.; Leading ladies (Actresses);
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The good, the bad and the ugly [videorecording (DVD)] by Leone, Sergio,1929-; Eastwood, Clint,1930-; Wallach, Eli,1915-; Van Cleef, Lee,1925-;
Photography, Tonino delli Celli ; music, Ennio Morriconie.Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef.During the American Civil War, three men search for a buried fortune.CHV rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD Dolby digital.NTSC 1.
Subjects: Outlaws; Spaghetti Westerns; Western films; Motion pictures, Italian; Foreign films; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© [1998], c1966., MGM Home Entertainment,
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The house of hidden meanings : a memoir / by RuPaul,1960-author.;
"Central to RuPaul's success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world's largest television franchises, RuPaul's ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known. In The House of Hidden Meanings, RuPaul strips away all artifice and recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography life-story, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history. Here in RuPaul's singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living-a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly. A[n] ... introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; RuPaul, 1960-; African American businesspeople; African American television personalities; Cross-dressers; Drag queens; Gay men; Sexual minorities;
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Rabbit rabbit rabbit : a novel / by Sander-Green, Nadine,author.;
"Millicent is a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse to work for a failing daily newspaper. With winter looming and the Yukon descending into darkness, Millicent begins a relationship with Pascal, an eccentric and charming middle-aged filmmaker who lives on a converted school bus in a Walmart parking lot. What begins as a romantic adventure soon turns toxic, and Millicent finds herself struggling not to lose herself and her voice. Events come to a head at Thaw di Gras, a celebration in faraway Dawson City marking the return of light to the north. It's here, in a frontier mining town filled with drunken tourists, eclectic locals, and sparkling burlesque dancers, that Millicent must choose between staying with Pascal or finally standing up to her abuser. In the style of Ottessa Moshfegh's honest exploration of dysfunctional relationships, and with the warmth and energy of Heather O'Neill, Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit illuminates what it's like to be young, impulsive, and in love in one of the harshest environments in the world."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Abused women; Abusive men; Courage; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Motion picture producers and directors; Reporters and reporting; Young women;
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My left foot [videorecording] / by Bernstein, Elmer.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Brown, Christy,1932-1981.My left foot.; Connaughton, Shane,screenwriter.; Cusack, Cyril,1910-1993,actor.; Day-Lewis, Daniel,actor.; Dunbar, Adrian,1958-actor.; Fricker, Brenda,actor.; McAnally, Ray,actor.; McCabe, Ruth,actor.; O'Conor, Hugh,1975-actor.; Pearson, Noel,film producer.; Shaw, Fiona,1958-actor.; Sheridan, Jim,1949-film director,screenwriter.; Whelan, Alison,actor.; Granada Films,production company.; Lions Gate Films,production company.; Miramax Films,presenter.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Director of photography, Jack Conroy ; editor, J. Patrick Duffner ; music composed and conducted by Elmer Bernstein ; production designer, Austen Spriggs ; special advisor to the production, Gene Lambert.Daniel Day Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Conor, Adrian Dunbar, Ruth McCabe, Alison Whelan, Cyril Cusack.Born with cerebral palsy, the 10th of 22 children of a Dublin bricklayer and his wife, Christy Brown was doomed to life as a vegetable by physicians in 1932. His strong-willed mother's love and faith encouraged him to overcome this label. At age seven, he made a mark with chalk grasped between the toes of his left foot, the only limb on his body he could control. With this proof of intelligence, his schooling begins, and aided by his loving family, Christy learns to grapple with life's physical tasks and psychological pains. His courage and determination inspire a teacher, who lends support as he develops into a brilliant if cantankerous writer, poet, and painter. The astounding story of an artist who defeated a physical disability, degrading stereotypes, and poverty to fulfill his dreams.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.Academy Award best actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), 1989, and best supporting actress (Brenda Fricker), 1989
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Brown, Christy, 1932-1981.; Brown, Christy, 1932-1981; Cerebral palsied; Mouth and foot painting artists; People with disabilities; Young men;
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The double agents / by Griffin, W. E. B.; Butterworth, William E.(William Edmund);
Subjects: United States. Office of Strategic Services; World War, 1939-1945; War stories;
© c2007., G. P. Putnam's Sons,
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The fall guy [videorecording] / by Blunt, Emily,actor.; Gosling, Ryan,1980-actor.; Leitch, David(Director),film director.; Pearce, Drew,1975-screenwriter.; Taylor-Johnson, Aaron,1990-actor.; Waddingham, Hannah,1974-actor.; Universal Pictures (Firm),publisher.;
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke.He's a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for action and violence, drug content and some strong language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Women motion picture producers and directors; Stunt performers; Conspiracies; Missing persons; Leading men (Actors); Man-woman relationships; Motion pictures;
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Silver linings playbook [videorecording] / by Cooper, Bradley.; De Niro, Robert.; Lawrence, Jennifer,1990-; Quick, Matthew,1973-Silver linings playbook.Videorecording.; Russell, David O.,1958-; Tucker, Chris.; Weaver, Jacki,1947-; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Weinstein Company.;
Music by Danny Elfman ; director of photography, Masanobu Takayanagi ; edited by Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers.Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jacki Weaver.Bradley Cooper is Pat, a bipolar man from Philadelphia who has spent the last eight months in a mental hospital. He was ordered there after a violent incident involving his wife and another man. Pat moves in with his father (Robert De Niro), a lifelong Eagles fan who has low-level OCD issues. Pat wants to get back together with his wife, even though there is a restraining order keeping him from contacting her. He soon befriends Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a depressed young woman who's mourning the death of her husband by engaging in compulsive sex with almost everyone she meets; she also knows his wife and offers to deliver a letter of his to her if he acts as her partner in a local dance competition.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation, Dolby digital 5.1.Winner of Academy Award for Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence)
Subjects: Comedy films.; Dance Competitions; Denial (Psychology); Depression, Mental; Divorced men; Fathers and sons; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Romantic comedy films.; Widows;
© c2013., Weinstein Company ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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Farrell Covington and the limits of style : a novel / by Rudnick, Paul,author.;
Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete but not a snob, self-indulgent yet wildly generous. As the son of one of the country's most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic. Together, the two embark on a uniquely managed romance that spans half a century. They are inseparable-except for the many years when they are apart. Moving from the ivy-covered bastion of Yale to New York City, Los Angeles, and eventually all over the world, Farrell and Nate experience the tremendous upheaval and social change of the last fifty years. From the freedom of gay life in 1970s Manhattan to the Hollywood closet, the AIDS epidemic, and the profound strides of the LGBTQ+ movement, this witty and moving novel shows how the world changes around us while we're busy doing other things. A story of chances lost and found (and sometimes just temporarily misplaced), with an epic reach, it reminds us that there is always the possibility of undiluted, unbridled, unstoppable happiness, if, as Farrell says, 'You know where to look.' Style has its limits, love does not.
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Historical fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; AIDS (Disease); Gay liberation movement; Gay men; Jews; Rich people; Same-sex marriage;
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My seven Black fathers : a young activist's memoir of race, family, and the mentors who made him whole / by Jawando, Will,1983-author.;
"A memoir by the lawyer, activist, and county councilman Will Jawando"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Jawando, Will, 1983-; African American men; African Americans; African Americans; Nigerian Americans; Role models;
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