Peter Gallagher
Author
Formats
Description
Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever writes in his preface, 'These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.' John Cheever was born in...
Pub. Date
[1998?], c1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lonely young woman saves the life of a handsome stranger she has fallen in love with from afar. His family mistakes her for his fiancee, and she goes along because she likes his offbeat family so much. Matters take a hilarious turn when she meets and falls in love with her make-believe lover's brother.
3) After
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (apprxoimately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story follows Tessa, a dedicated student, dutiful daughter, and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart, as she enters her first semester in college. Armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded world opens up when she meets the dark and mysterious Hardin Scott, a magnetic, brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself and what she wants out of life.
4) Center stage
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The artistic director of the American Ballet Company is evaluating a tight-knit group of students as they face the growing pains of their world of dance. Managing their ambitions, romances, and heartbreaks proves to be both invigorating and painful.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Graham, a long-lost college friend ... drifts back into town and into the lives of John, a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, Ann, and her saucy sister, Cynthia. One by one, each is drawn into the very 'personal project' Graham is working on, leaving the relationships between them forever transformed"--Container.
6) Burlesque
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger than life voice causes a charismatic entrepreneur to make...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 598 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cupid & Cate: "Cate has a vintage cloths store. She attends her nasty dad's birthday party/family gathering where she meets Harry. She's dating Philip but he's dull - contrary to Harry"--Imdb.com.
Grace & Glorie: "A former New York City executive (Diane Lane) moves to the country with her husband (Neal McDonough) and befriends an illiterate elderly farm woman (Gena Rowlands)"--Imdb.com
After the Glory: "World War II has ended and many soldiers...
8) Short cuts
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at human life and American culture with over 20 characters' lives interweaving.