Paul Newman
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"NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throughout from Joanne Woodward, George Roy...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now, this long-lost memoir-90% Newman's...
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Here are the greats of ancient Greece--gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters--as freshly described in words and pictures as if they were alive today. In print for over fifty years, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths has introduced generations to Greek mythology-- and continues to enthrall young readers. Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published drawings from the sketchbook of Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire, plus an essay...
6) Winning
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 3 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.
7) Cars
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
8) The sting
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1930's Chicago, this story deals with two con men who seek revenge on a big-time gangster who was responsible for the murder of their friend.
9) Paris blues
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two American jazz musicians living in Paris fall in love with two girls on vacation from America. They must decide whether to stay in Paris for their music careers, or move back to America for love.
11) Empire Falls
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 195 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
13) Slap shot
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The coach of a third-rate hockey team signs up some rough and tough players to help his team win.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The Color of Money" is a decades-later sequel to "The Hustler." 25 years on, Fast Eddie is now a nattily dressed, silver-haired liquor salesman working the Midwest in his white Cadillac. His neat mustache and smiling deviltry are also employed in his other profession--stake horse to up and coming pool hustlers. One night he sees a kid playing who is so good that Eddie's laboriously buried memories are stirred. Vincent and his girlfriend Carmen have...
15) Cool hand Luke
Pub. Date
c 2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"His crime: nonconformity. His sentence: the chain gang...Cool Hand Luke is the loner who won't -- or can't -- bend to the arbitrary rules of his captivity." -- Container.
17) Hombre
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
18) Hud
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
20) The hustler
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
New York. Ames Billiards, with high ceilings and air of hushed concentration, is a church of pool. "Fast" Eddie Felson enters as an innocent con man and leaves with a taste of what the world can do, that talent alone will only get him so far, and that a man's search for "character," that hard-to-define quality that is simultaneously elusive and essential, could last a lifetime. Having come to take on pool legend Minnesota Fats, Eddie is soundly beaten...