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8 SECONDS (Movie Novelization) & VHS Movie (2 for 1)
by Charlie McDade. Screenplay by Monte Merrick. B&W movie stills section. Condition: UNREAD 1994 HarperPaperbacks first edition, first printing. Thin binder's glue string down spine. Tiny edgewear. Content: This is the novelization of the movie based on the life of Rodeo champion bull rider Lane Frost. The title refers to the time required by all rodeo cowboys to stay on a bull if they want a judge's score. For them, such a short time can seem like an eternity. The same is true of the beginning of this true story, a country tale of Lane Frost, a real-life, crowd-pleasing bullrider who rose to rodeo fame in the late '80s. The characters seem so irrepressibly good, so unreal, that the film comes out of the chute without a buck or much of a purpose. But Frost's story, and that of his relationship with his wife, Kellie (Cynthia Geary), eventually gains momentum. Luke Perry is an underrated actor, and he balances an "aw-shucks-ness" with an internal spark that makes that salt-of-the-earth stuff not so salty. When the film is finally over and the end credits show home movies and stills of the real-life Frost, you'll wish the ride was just a little longer. The 1994 movie was directed by John G. Avildsen and produced by Danny DeVito. The supporting cast includes James Rebhorn, Cameron Finley, Carrie Snodgress, Dustin Mayfield, Stephen Baldwin, and Gabriel Folse. A good movie. with 104 minutes run time. [1 set available]
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ALIVE: The Story of the Andes Survivors
by Piers Paul Read. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1975 Avon paperback edition, 27th printing. Tiny edgewear with tanning to interior page edges and a remainder mark bottom edge. Content: This is the ultimate cautionary tale. Author Read does a superb job of narrating this awe inspiring, nightmarish tale of survival. A violent plane crash in the Andes leaves a team of young Rugby players to battle, sub-zero temperatures, avalanches, the death of friends and loved ones, hopelessness and eventually starvation. Their will to survive brings them to a horrible choice few ever have to make; resort to canabilism or die a painful death by starvation. What makes their decision even more heartbreaking and terrible is the fact that most of the bodies they must eat to live are friends, teammates, and/or relatives. For nearly 80 days we live through the waking nightmare via Read's narrative suffering unimaginable physical and incomprehensible mental trials, but in the end it is oddly a tale of hope, faith, love and the ultimate sacrafice. The 1993 movie starred Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano and is worth seeing, but it would help to have read the book first. [2 copies available]
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AMADEUS (The Play)
by Peter Shaffer. 8 pages of B&W movie stills. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1984 Signet paperback, 3rd printing. Tiny edgewear with a short pale crease bottom front cover, name inside front cover. Interior clean & tight. Content: New Introduction by the Author. Reviewer: "one of the finest modern plays ever written for the theater. If you think you don't have to read it because you've seen the movie, think again. They RADICALLY altered the stage play for the screen. The film may look better - but most of the brillance of Peter Shaffer's incredible dialogue is lost. The play, however, is almost a dramatic monologue delivered by Salieri. Shaffer has an uncanny knack for dialogue and this is his second best play next to Equus. The funny thing is, even though they gutted the text for the film, the film is actually much longer than the play. If you liked the movie, have any interest in Mozart - or any interest in great plays, for that matter - read Amadeus." The 1984 spectacular movie was directed by Milos Forman and starred F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, & Jeffrey Jones. Academy Award for Abraham and the movie. [1 copy available]
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BLIND FLIGHT (Movie title of An Evil Cradling)
by Brian Keenan. Movie stills front cover. Condition: NEW 2004 Vintage UK Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of that time he was shut off from all news and contact with anyone other than his jailers and, later, his fellow hostages, amongst them John McCarthy. Frigtening, tense, moving. I haven't seen the movie, but the book is worth reading. [1 copy available]
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BLOW (Movie Edition)
by Bruce Porter. Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz movie still cover. B&W photo section. Condition: Gently pre-read to page 45 and abandoned. 1993 St. Martin's Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Content: The up-your-nose, in-your-face life of George Jung, the high-school football star from small-town USA who became the American linchpin of the Colombian cocaine connection. Relying on extensive interviews with Jung and other key figures, Porter recounts a sleigh- ride-to-hell story of how 60's hippie innocence turned into 80's megadepravity. Porter dwells too long on Jung's unexceptional childhood but picks up steam when his subject comes of age--as a likable, handsome, well-muscled hedonist-- and takes off for California and a haze of sunbathing, sex, pot, and LSD. Soon enough, Jung becomes chief marijuana importer to a number of prestigious East Coast colleges. Likening himself to Butch Cassidy, he moves his operation to Mexico and makes a mint until a series of busts stops him--temporarily. In prison, Jung befriends a young Carlos Lehder and links up with the Medell¡n coke cartel. The money bandied about is staggering: The Colombian suppliers gross $35 billion a year, and Jung buys a house just to stash his cash (lining floors and walls with $100 bills): ``Money, Learjets, fast cars, wild women, houses with maids,'' is how he recalls it later. Inevitably, the roller-coaster hits the steep downward slope: paranoia, as Jung snorts mountains of coke; a heart attack in his mid-30s; a car-bomb attack by Lehder, by now a business enemy; scary trips to Colombia, during one of which Jung watched coke czar Pablo Escobar execute a police informer; a flurry of arrests and escapes; finally, the Big Bust. But, as always, Jung comes out unscathed, turning state's witness (with Escobar's approval) to sing against Lehder. Set scot-free in exchange for his testimony, Jung now works in a legit delivery service, transporting fish up and down Cape Cod. How a happy hippie blew it on blow--finely researched, told with pizzazz. The movie was directed by Ted Demme and starred Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens, and Ray Liotta. [1 copy available]
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BRAVEHEART: A Novel
by Randall Wallace. Mel Gibson movie cover. Condition: Good condition, 1995 Pocket original paperback, first printing. Light edgewear with spine crease. Interior clean. Content: In one of history's darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor -- the likes of whom the world may never see again. Amid the color, pageantry, and violence of medieval Scotland unfurls the resplendent tale of the legendary William Wallace, farmer by birth, rebel by fate, who banded together his valiant army of Scots to crush the cruel tyranny of the English Plantagenet king. The 1995 movie is one of the most popular movies of the last century. Directed by and starring Mel Gibson, this movie also stars James Robinson, Patrick McGoohan, Brian Cox, Sophie Marceau, Angus Macfadyen, and Brendan Gleeson. 5 Academy Awards. [1 copy available]
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THE ELEPHANT MAN
by Christine Sparks. Movie art cover. Condition: Very Good, gently pre-read 1980 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Small diagonal crease bottom front cover corner with pale spine crase. Inteior clean & tight with light tanningn to page edges. Content: John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within that enormous and deformed head, thrived the soul of a poet, the heart of a dreamer, the longings of a man. Based on the extraordinary motion picture that captured the heart of America. The 1980 movie, based on the true story of John Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease, starred John Hurt (as Merrick), Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, and Wendy Hiller. This was a 5-star movie and novelization. .[1 copy available]
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THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS (Movie Novelization)
by Dewey Gram. Kilmer-Douglas movie cover. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1996 Pocket original paperback, first priting. Light shelf wear top front cover corner and a tiny bit on the fore edges. Content: Based on the true story, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, this novelization tells the story of two renowned hunters' attempts to track and kill a pair of man-eating lions--one ghostly white, the other black as night--who terrorized workers building a bridge in the heart of Africa's wildlands in 1888. This great 1996 movie was directed by Stephen Hopkins and produced by Michael Douglas. It starred Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, and Bernard Hill. [1 copy available]
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GIDEON'S TRUMPET
by Anthony Lewis. Condition: UNREAD 1966 Vintage paperback. Tag removal mark top front cover. Interior clean & tight with tanning to page edges. Content: A history of the landmark case of James Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. Also a great made-for-TV 1980 movie directed by Robert Collins, starring Henry Fonda (Gideon), José Ferrer, Fay Wray, John Houseman, Sam Jaffe, Dean Jagger, Lane Smith, and Ford Rainey. [1 copy available]
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GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING: A Novel
by Tracy Chevalier. Vermeer painting cover art. Condition: NEW 2001 Plume Trade Paperback, 8th printing. Content: With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries -- and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Chevalier's novel of the same title. The novel centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant -- and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, the book does contain a final delicious twist. The 2004 movie was directed by Peter Webber and starred Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy, & Rollo Weeks. [1 copy available]
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GLADYS AYLWARD: The Adventure of a Lifetime AND VHS Movie Inn of the Sixth Happiness (2 for 1)
by Janet & Geoff Benge. B&W maps illustrate. Condition: The book: UNREAD 1998 YWAM Trade Paperback, first printing. LIght tanning to page edges. The movie: Very good, gently pre-viewed (it was mine) 1994 Fox Video re-release in white plastic case. Guaranteed. Content: The story of Gladys Aylward (Christian Heroes: Then & Now Series) and her mission in China is well known - the maid who became a missionary even when her church mission rejected her missionary application. The 1957 movie with Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, and the wonderful Robert Donat (directed by Mark Robeson) throws in a bit of romance that doesn't seem to appear elsewhere - but I could be wrong. At any rate, the movie is wonderful and inspiring. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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GORILLAS IN THE MIST
by Dian Fossey. Three B&W photo sections. B&W drawings by Jay Matternas. Sigourney Weaver movie still front cover. Condition: UNREAD 1988 Houghton Mifflin Trade Paperback, movie edition. Tiny edgewear. Content: In 1963, an occupational therapist from Kentucky, in uncertain health and spirits, traveled to central Africa in the quixotic hope of seeing a mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. Dian Fossey had read everything she could about the reclusive and much-feared animal, and she returned from her trip convinced that most of the books were wrong. During her seven-week stay in Africa, Fossey had a chance encounter with the famed primatologists Mary and Louis Leakey, who encouraged her to follow her dream of living among the mountain gorillas and learning their ways. In 1967 she did just that, setting up a camp on the slopes of the 14,000-foot Virunga Volcanoes of Rwanda and studying four gorilla families there. Although it took them some time to accept Fossey's presence among them, she was immediately impressed by their peaceful nature and by their generous, guileless behavior--so unlike the images found in popular culture. But, Fossey discovered, despite their peaceable way of life, the gorillas had many enemies in the form of poachers who hunted them for their hands, skins, and heads--ghastly remains sold to the tourist market. Much of Fossey's thoughtful but often rightly angry memoir Gorillas in the Mist is a well-reasoned plea for the protection of the gorillas and the suppression of the poachers' black market. That argument found a wide audience when her book was published in 1983, but Fossey's work remains unfinished: she was murdered, probably by those very poachers, in 1985, and today there are fewer than 650 mountain gorillas in the wild. To read this book is a first step for anyone concerned with their preservation, and that of other wild species everywhere. The wonderful 1988 movie was directed by Michael Apted and starred Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson, & Gordon Masten. A classic - both the book & the movie. [1 copy available]
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HAYWIRE
by Brooke Hayward. B&W family photos throughout the book. Condition: Good only, 1981 Bantam paperback edition, 13th printing. Pale spine crease with very slight roll, small edgewear. Interior clean & tight but tanning lightly. Content: "I'm the daughter of a father who's been married five times. Mother killed herself. My sister killed herself. My brother has been in a mental institution. I'm 23 and divorced with two kids. - Brooke Hayward" One of the highlights of this book is the story of Brooke Hayward and Jane Fonda (childhood friends) discovering their parents had once been married to each other and neither of them knew. Gut-wrenching, haunting but entertaining and informative look at stardom and children of the stars. The made-for-TV movie is a gem if you can find it - Lee Remick and Jason Robards play Leland Hayward and Margaret Sullavan. [1 copy available]
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HENRY & JUNE: From A Journal of Love, the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931 - 1932
by Anais Nin. Movie stills & cast photos both covers. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Harvest Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Small "ding" top cover at hinge with tiny edgewear. Inteorir clean & tight - perfect. Content: This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating” (Alice Walker). The source of a major motion picture from Universal. The 1990 movie starred Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant, Kevin Space, and was directed by Philip Kaurman. [1 copy available]
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HOT TODDY:
The True Story of Hollywood's Most Shocking Crime - The Murder of Thelma Todd
by Andy Edmonds. Loni Anderson TV movie cover with B&W photo section of the "real" Thelma Todd. Condition: Very good 1990 Avon Books Paperback second printing. Tiny edgewear with short spider crease front cover at hinge. Pale spine crease. Very nice pre-read book. Content: Reviewer: "When Thelma Todd was found dead in her garaged car on December 16, 1935, the authorities declared it a suicide. But many suspected this was a murder. Some of the suspects were: her business associate; her cafe treasurer; a gangster (Lucky Luciano) involved with gambling, drugs, and prostitution; and her former husband. The author became interested in this case, spent seven years researching old records, interviewing men who had inside knowledge of the underworld, and the personal letters of Thelma Todd. These were used to recreate the true story of this murder." Fascinating book. Fairly good TV movie with Loni Anderson. [1 copy available]
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IN SEARCH OF HISTORIC JESUS
by Sunn Classic Pictures. 91 minutes run time. Condition: Like new c. 1982 Vestron Video VHS movie. Viewed once. Both tape and box are excellent. Not an ex-rental. GUARANTEED. Content: In 33 A.D., on a hillside neaer Jerusalem, a man was killed in an agonizing crucifixion. . . his name was Jesus. Was he an ordinary man? A great prophet? Could he work miracles - heal the sick, give sight to the blind? Was Jesus, in fact, the Son of God and did he actually rise from the dead 2,000 years ago? Discover new answers about the most intriguing man in history in this motion picture, based on the best-selling book. Following clues across twenty centuries and several continents, this movie uses both Biblical and non-Biblical sources to recreate the life of the man who has had the greatest impact on history - and yet was mysteriously unknown to historians of his time. Directed by Henning Schellerup, this movie starred John Rubinstein, John Anderson, Nehemiah Persoff, Brad Crandall, Andrew Bloch, Morgan Brittany, and the great character actor David Opatoshu. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ISHI, LAST OF HIS TRIBE
by Theodora Kroeber. B&W illustrations by Ruth Robbins. Condition: UNREAD 1989 Bantam Starfire paperback, 18th printing. Tiny edgewear and pale tanning to page edges. Content: The Yahi lived peacefully in California for hundreds of years - until they were violently wiped out by the invading white man in the early 1900s. Only a few bold Yahi escaped into hiding, among them the man who became known as Ishi. Soon, one by one, the last of the Yahi died - until Ishi was left alone, the sole survivor of a pround people. When he stumbled into a small California mining town, the world learned his true story for the first time. This is the incredible story of the last hero of the Yahi tribe, and how he brought to civilization all the courage, faith, and strength of the Yahi Way of Life. The 1994 movie starred the great Graham Greene as Ishi, Jon Voight as Kroeber, and Anne Archer. It's a gem! [1 copy available]
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ISHI IN TWO WORLDS: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
by Theodora Kroeber. B&W era photos of Ishi "at work." Condition: NEW 1989 Univ. of California Press Trade Paperback, 24th printing. Content: The Yahi lived peacefully in California for hundreds of years - until they were violently wiped out by the invading white man in the early 1900s. Only a few bold Yahi escaped into hiding, among them the man who became known as Ishi. Soon, one by one, the last of the Yahi died - until Ishi was left alone, the sole survivor of a pround people. When he stumbled into a small California mining town, the world learned his true story for the first time. This is the incredible story of the last hero of the Yahi tribe, and how he brought to civilization all the courage, faith, and strength of the Yahi Way of Life. The 1994 movie starred the great Graham Greene as Ishi, Jon Voight as Kroeber, and Anne Archer. It's a gem! [1 copy available]
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JOAN OF ARC (Book & VHS - 2 for 1) (Movie Edition)
by Frances Winwar. Ingrid Bergman movie still cover art. Condition: The interior is clean & tight but tanning/the cover has problems: peeling along the hinge into the spine, some edgewear. The VHS movie is a former rental and is in very good condition but the box has some edgewear and a small tag removal mark front box cover. Guaranteed to play correctly. Content: Note from cover: Frances Winwar's famous book, The Saint and the Devil, especially rewritten for extra enjoyment of Sierra Pictures' epic film in Technicolor starring Ingrid Bergman." I guess that says it all. Unfortunately, I have not read The Saint and the Devil so I cannot tell you the additions/changes. The 1950 movie was directed by Victor Fleming and starred Bergman, Jose Ferrer, John Ireland, Leif Erickson, Ward Bond, William Conrad, and J. Carrol Nash. Certainly one of the most "dramatic" of the "Joan movies." [1 copy available]
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JOAN OF ARC: Her Story (Movie Tie-In)
by Regine Pernoud & Marie-Veronique Clin (translation by Jeremy Adams). B&W photo section. Condition: NEW 1999 St. Martin's Griffin Trade Paperback, first printing. Revised & translated by Jeremy Adams. Beautiful cover art of "Joan" by Jean Dominique, 1854. Content: The peasant girl who led an army against the English and placed Charles VII on the French throne has inspired countless books since her death at age 19. While others have claimed Joan the Maid (as she called herself) for every cause from feminism to working-class radicalism, this meticulous volume by two French scholars sticks close to the known facts. The authors make extensive use of contemporary documents that bring to life the turbulent political scene in which Joan operated as well as her forceful personality. Joan followed the directives of voices she believed were sent to her by God; her deep piety, self-assurance, decisiveness, and shrewd intelligence radiate from her letters and from her responses to hostile questioning at the rigged trial that resulted in her being burned alive as a heretic in 1431. Basis for the 1999 movie, The Messenger, by Luc Besson. The movie starred Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, John Malkovich, Tchéky Karyo, and Vincent Cassel. [While I like most of the "Joan" movies, this one is my favorite.] [1 copy available]
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LOVE YOU TO BITS AND PIECES: Life With Dvid Helfgott (Shine
by Gillian Helfgott with Alissa Tanskaya. B&W photo section with movie cast photos as well. David Helfgott photo front cover. Condition: Gently pre-read 1997 Penguin Books Trade Paperback, 6th printing. Small edgewear with pale hinge crease. Light tanning to page edges. Content: This poignant story of a great musical talent blurred by mental illness is brilliantly portrayed in the movie Shine. With frank detail, humor, and great understanding, Helfgott offers details that bring deeper insight into the life of her husband, Australian pianist David Helfgott. David's father, an impoverished Jewish immigrant and a frustrated musician, pinned all his hopes on his musically gifted oldest son, who showed "nervous" tendencies at an early age. By 14, David was winning Australian piano competitions, but ultimately he had to break with his father in order to study in London. Three years of study at the Royal College of Music culminated in his triumphant performance of the Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto. But the strain was too great and David had a complete mental breakdown. Returning to Australia, he was institutionalized much of the next 12 years; when he met Gillian, he was beginning to play again, in a piano bar. The story of their life together, and David's dramatic improvement and return to performing, are the heart of this book. Readers will find this sympathetic portrait fascinating; those who are familiar with the movie will find this closer look at David Helfgott's life equally rewarding. The wonderful 1996 movie of Helfgott's life, Shine, was directed by Scott Hicks and starred Geoffrey Rush (Academy Award), Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Aussie acting staple Chris Haywood, Alex Rafalowicz, Armin Mueller-Stahl , and Lynn Redgrave. Not to be missed! [1 copy available]
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LIVING FREE (Sequel to Born Free)
by Joy Adamson. 4 B&W photo sections. Condition: UNREAD 1966 Bantam paperback, first printing. wonderful condition - no tanning either! Content: This book picks up where Born Free left off with Elsa, the lioness who lives in two worlds, raising her cubs in the African bush with the aid of her devoted friends Joy and George Adamson. The 1972 movie was directed by Jack Couffer and starred Susan Hampshire, Nigel Davenport, Geoffrey Keen, and Robert Beaumont. No notes on who played Elsa. A great animal movie. [1 copy available]
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LUST FOR LIFE
by Irving Stone. Condition: UNREAD 1977 Pocket Books edition, 25th printing (c. 1985). Pale tanning to white cover edges & interior pages edges. Tiny edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: This is a biographical novel of the Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh and is based primarily on Van Gogh's three volumes of letters to his brother, Theo. Van Gogh was a violent, clumsy and passionate man who was driven to the extremity of exhaustion by his fervor to get life -- the essence of it -- into paint. Irving Stone treats the artist with great compassion and gives us a portrait that is sympathetic but fair. The 1956 movie was directed by the great Vincente Minnelli (yup, Liza's dad) and starred Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, and Marion Ross (in a small role). Rent or buy, but don't miss this movie! [1 copy available]
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THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE [Complete & Unabridged Screenplay]
by Alan Bennett. Movie stills both covers. Condition: UNREAD c. 1996 Random House hard cover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no edition given. This MAY be a BCE, but there is no note of it on the DJ or the book. Tiny edgewear to DJ. Content: "What Bennett has done in 'Madness' is to powerfully re-imagine the atmosphere of George's royal court, giving the dialogue a modern twist while keeping it from sounding anachronistic. The pleasure he takes in the spoken word, his ability to etch characters in both acid and compassion, to write such lines of dialogue as 'the state of the monarchy and the state of lunacy share a frontier' set this film thankfully apart." The 1994 movie was directed by Nicholas Hytner and starred Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Amanda Donohoe, Rupert Everett, and Matthew Lloyd Davies. [1 copy available]
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MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (Historical Fiction)
by John Hale. Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson movie stills front cover. Condition: Good+, 1972 Pan Books (London) paperback, fist printing. Pale vertical crease front cover near fore edge, small edgewear, and moderate tanning to interior page edges. Content: This is John Hale's take on the conflict between two queens in "one country" - Mary of Scotland and Queen Elizabeth I of England - ending in death for Mary. The 1972 movie was directed by Charles Jarrott and boasts a cast of England's best actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Trevor Howard, Daniel Massey and Ian Holm. Wonderful movie; great book. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MICHAEL COLLINS (Screnplay and Film Diary)
by Neil Jordan. B&W movie stills illustrate. Condition: NEW 1996 Plume hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Content: Neil Jordan, the versatile director of Mona Lisa, The Crying Game, and Interview with a Vampire, had wanted to make Michael Collins, his most recent film, for 15 years. This book provides the finished screenplay to Michael Collins, as well as the diaries Jordan kept while shooting the movie. Writing with enthusiasm and candor, Jordan meditates on contemporary Irish acting and filmmaking, reveals the delights and difficulties of making a film as complex and beautiful as Michael Collins, and talks about getting good performances from Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts. If you loved the movie (and I did), this is a great book for you. The 1996 Movie, directed by Neil Jordan, starring the great Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, & Julia Roberts. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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MY DOG SKIP (Movie Edition)
by Willie Morris. Frankie Muniz and Skip movie still cover art. Condition: NEW 1996 Vintage Books softcover, no printing given. Light tanning to white cover edges. Content: This book is for anyone - male or female - who was ever owned by a dog and will never forget it. This is a true story. In 1943, nine-year-old Morris first met Skip, an English smooth-haired fox terrier puppy who immediately went to sleep in his arms. From that magical moment of connection ("I was an only child, and he now was an only dog") until Morris left home to go to college, boy and dog were inseparable companions. In this sweetly sentimental memoir, the author recalls growing up with Skip in the small, sleepy town of Yazoo, Mississippi. Unlike the other dogs Morris's family had owned, Skip was special. He could play football, running the "Statue of Liberty" play, much to the amazement of spectators ("Look at that dog playin' football!"). With a little assistance from Morris, Skip could drive a car ("Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"). He could run the 100-yard dash in 7.8 seconds, a world record for fox terriers. For anyone who has ever loved a dog, Morris's loving tribute will be a delightful read. [1 copy available]
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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
by Mitch Albom. Condition: NEW 1997 Doubleday small hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), reprint. Content: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson. This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained: what would it be like to look those people up again, tell them how much they meant to us, maybe even resume the mentorship? Plus, we meet Morrie Schwartz--a one of a kind professor, whom the author describes as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Christmas elf. And finally we are privy to intimate moments of Morrie's final days as he lies dying from a terminal illness. Even on his deathbed, this twinkling-eyed mensch manages to teach us all about living robustly and fully. Kudos to author and acclaimed sports columnist Mitch Albom for telling this universally touching story with such grace and humility. The 1999 movie was directed by Mick Jackson and starred the great Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Bonnie Bartlett, and Kyle Sullivan. Both the book and the movie are worth your time. [1 copy available]
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UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes. Condition: UNREAD 2003 Broadway Books Trade Paperback, 51st printing. Light shelfwear to top back 20 pages (poor shelving). Content: In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her garden, and the intimacy of her dealings with the locals. Cooking, gardening, tiling and painting are never chores, but skills to be learned, arts to be practiced, and above all to be enjoyed. At the same time Mayes brings a literary and intellectual mind to bear on the experience, adding depth to this account of her enticing rural idyll. Directed by Audrey Wells, this was one of the most popular movies of 2003 (and it deserved to be). It starred Diane Lane (Academy Award nomination), the great Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Vincent Riotta, and scene-stealer Pawel Szajda. If you haven't seen it, rush to Blockbuster! [1 copy available]
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