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- Based on a true story : a memoir / by Macdonald, Norm,1963-author.;
- "As its title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life--more or less--from his origins in a rural small town in the-back-of-beyond Canada to an epically disastrous appearance on Star Search, to his possibly incredible account of auditioning for Lorne Michaels and his memorable run as the anchor of Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update." But Based on a True Story is much more than a memoir, it's a hilarious, inspired, very meta imagining of his life, as told to a deeply disturbed ghost writer whose teetering sanity and bruised ego threaten to take down the entire narrative--and possibly the comic with it. Peppered with classic jokes and long mythologized Hollywood stories, this wildly adventurous, tense, totally original, and absurdly funny memoir turns the conventional "comic's memoir" on its head and leaves the reader delightfully off kilter"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Macdonald, Norm, 1963-; Actors; Comedians;
- Bone handbook / by Smith, Jeff;
- Introduces the Bone series by explaining the characters and mythology of Bone, conversations with Jeff Smith and Steve Hamaker about the making of Bone, explaining how Bone is colored, a cover gallery and more.
- Subjects: Comic strip characters.; Graphic novels;
- © 2010., Graphix,
- Dante's Inferno [graphic novel] : a graphic novel adaptation / by Brizzi, Paul,author,illustrator.; Thomas,letterer.; Brizzi, Gaëtan,illustrator.; Kane, Montana,translator.; translation of:Brizzi, Paul.Enfer de Dante.English.; graphic novelization of (work):Dante Alighieri,1265-1321.Inferno.English.;
- "Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante crosses the nine circles of Hell to find his beloved, Beatrice, in Paradise. Along the way, he must recognize and reject each of the incarnations of sin. In each circle of Hell, Dante confronts both sinners and demons, from Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Paris, whose loves were famously their downfall, to the Greek Furies and Medusa, to heretics like Epicurus, whose teachings claimed that the soul died with the body, now forced to writhe in a flaming tomb for eternity. Each layer of Hell reveals monsters, gods, historical and mythological kings, philosophers, queens, and hordes of the miserable, faceless damned, all culminating in a confrontation with Lucifer himself. Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi make this famously dense literary classic accessible without distorting it and betraying the spirit of the Italian genius. They deftly translate it into comics while taking care to preserve the heart of the story: a taste for excess, dramatic tension, and the inevitable darkness of the subject matter. Literary aficionados will appreciate this decadent graphic novel adaptation, which does not seek to sand down the source material. Likewise, adults whose imaginations were fueled by films like Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame as children, which the Brizzi brothers animated sequences for, will be swept up in this lushly illustrated adult fable, unfettered by the demands of corporate animation studios"--
- Subjects: Graphic novels.; Hell; Voyages to the otherworld;
- Thor [videorecording] / by Branagh, Kenneth.; Dennings, Kat.; Elba, Idris.; Feige, Kevin.; Feore, Colm.; Hemsworth, Chris.; Hiddleston, Tom.; Hopkins, Anthony,1937-; Kirby, Jack.; Lee, Stan,1922-; Lieber, Larry.; Miller, Ashley Edward.; Payne, Don.; Portman, Natalie,1981-; Russo, Rene.; Skarsgard, Stellan.; Stentz, Zack.; Stevenson, Ray.; Marvel Entertainment Group.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm); Paramount Pictures Corporation.;
- Director of photography, Haris Zambarloukos ; editor, Paul Rubell ; music by Patrick Doyle.Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo.When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround ; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Adventure and adventurers; Feature films.; Heroes; Loki (Norse deity); Mythology, Norse; Odin (Norse deity); Thor (Norse deity); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2011., Paramount Home Entertainment,
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