Movie Books: Comedy

9 to 5 (Movie novelization)
by Thom Racina. Based on screenplay by Colin Higins and Patricia Resnick. Condition: UNREAD 1980 Bantam Books paperback, first printing. Color movie stills both covers. Light tanning to page edges. Content: Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up? The hilarious 1980 movie was directed by Colin Higgins and starred Lily tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden, and Peggy Pope. Not to be missed. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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1941 (The Year That Will Lie in Hilarity!) (Movie novelization)
by Bob Gale. Based on Screenplay by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale. Movie poster art cover. Condition: Gently pre-read, if at all, 1979 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Problems: edge ear with diagonal crease top back cover corner. Content: One of the funniest films ever made - AND one of the best jitterbug scenes ever put on film. "It's been six days since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Panic grips California, supposedly the next target of the Japanese forces. Everywhere in California, people are suffering from war nerves. Chaos erupts all over the state. An Army Air Corps Captain, a civilian with a deranged sense of Nationalism, civilian defenders, and a Motor Pool crew all end up on the trail of a lost Japanese sub that has picked Hollywood as their own target. Will these people be able to defend their homes? Will they be able to preserve the safety in California? Will they be able to get a hold of themselves?" The 1979 movie was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred many of the old SNL alumni: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Candy, Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Stack, Treat Williams, great dancing by Bobby Di Cicco, Nancy Allen, Dianne Kay, Patti LuPone, and a bit part by Mickey Rourke. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Movie novelization)
by Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown. Based on their screenplay. B&W illustrations by James Victore & Joyce Houlihan. Condition: UNREAD 1989 Applause Theatre Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Light edgewear top front cover corner. Content: Reviewer: "Usually known for his dark fantasy for adults, here Gilliam made a light-hearted fantasy for children, which truly is endearing. Now, Gilliam, with the help of Charles McKeown, has turned the film into a novel. One thing I liked best about the film is that it was visually beautiful. Obviously, that is missing from the book. But still, the book is written with humor and intelligence, which makes it a good read, even if you've never seen the film. It can be read both by children (who will like the adventure), and by adults (who will respect the wit). Overall, this is a warmhearted tribute to fantasy, and is recommended whether or not you've seen the film." The 1989 movie was directed by Gillam and starred John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce, Sting, Robin Williams, and Andrew MacLachlan. [1 copy available]
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THE ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' SMARTER BROTHER (Movie novelization)
by Gilbert Pearlman. Based on their screenpla by Gene Wilder. 16 pages of B&W movie stills. Wilder & Kahn cover. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1975 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Tiny edge wear but there are rubbings along the back hinge with small areas where something was stuck to the back cover. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. Content: Sherlock Holmes' younger brother is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying success, to imitate Sherlock's deductive and observational tricks. The 1975 movie was directed and starred Gene Wilder with the wonderful Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Leo McKern, Dom DeLuise, and Roy Kinnear. Great fun! [1 copy available]
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AMERICAN GRAFFITI
by George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck. 70 B&W movie stills illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1973 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Small ink marks bottom front cover, light tanning to white cover edges and a name inside front cover. Content: An American film classic! This is the "complete scenario" of the film - screenplay and movie stills. [1 copy available]
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AMERICAN SPLENDOR (DVD & Limited Edition Comic Book)
directed by Shari Springer Berman. Includes a limited edition comic book in the box. Condition: NEW (still shrink-wrapped) 2004 HBO DVD, 101 minutes. Content: One of the most acclaimed films of 2003, this is also one of the most audaciously creative biographical movies ever made. Blending fact, fiction, and personal perspective from the comic books that inspired it, this marvelous portrait of Harvey Pekar--scowling curmudgeon, brow-beaten everyman, insightful chronicler of his own life, and frustrated file clerk at a Cleveland V.A. hospital--is an inspired amalgam of the media (comic books, TV, and film) that lifted Pekar from obscurity to the status of a pop-cultural icon. As played by Paul Giamatti in a master-stroke of casting, we see Pekar and his understanding wife (played by Hope Davis) as underdogs in a world full of obstacles, yet also infused with subtle hope and (gasp!) heartwarming perseverance. We also see the real Pekar, and this multifaceted commingling of "reel" and "real" turns American Splendor into a uniquely cinematic celebration of Pekar's life and, by extension, the tenacity of an unlikely American hero. The 2003 movie also starred Joey Krajcar, Daniel Tay, Chris Ambrose, Josh Hutcherson, and Vivienne Benesch. A great dark comedy. [1 copy available]
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AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER (The movie: Tune In Tomorrow)
by Mario Vargas Llosa. Translation from the Spanish by Farrar, Strauss. Cover art by Victor Gadino. Condition: UNREAD 1984 Avon Books Trade Paperback, 6th printing. Light tanning to page edges. Content: Comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published asLa tia Julia y el escribidor in 1977. Vargas Llosa uses counterpoint, paradox, and satire to explore the creative process of writing and its relation to the daily lives of writers. One half of the story is an autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho. Marito's success at writing and romance contrasts with the fortunes of Pedro Camacho, the protagonist of the other half of the story, who is a devoted but declining author of radio soap operas. The 1990 movie was directed by Jon Amiel and starred Barbara Hershey, Keanu Reeves, Peter Falk, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Gallagher, and Hope Lange. [2 copies available]
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AUNTIE MAME: An Irreverent Escapade
by Patrick Dennis. Condition: Pre-read c. 1956 Popular Library paperback, no printing given. This an old book with problems that older books have - some tanning to interior pages, light edgewear, and it is a bit delicate. Content: Everyone knows the story of Auntie Mame, so I won't bore you - much. "Auntie Mame is a unique literary achievementa brilliant novel disguised as a lightweight piece of fluff. Every page sparkles with wit, style andthough Mame would cringe at the thoughthigh moral purpose. Let?s hope Patrick Dennis is finally recognized for what he is: One of the great comedic writers of the 20th century." --Robert Plunket The great 1958 movie was directed by Morton DaCosta, screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, starring the great Roslind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles, Fred Clark, Peggy Cass (I believe an Academy Award for this part), Jan Handzlik, Joanna Barnes, Pippa Scott, and Lee Patrick and Willard Waterman. [1 copy available]
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BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY (Movie Novelization)
by Robert Tine. Based on the screenplay by Chris Matheson & Ed Solomon. Movie still cover. Condition: UNREAD 1991 Berkley paperback, first printing. Tiny tiny edge wear with pale tanning to page edges. Content: Bill & Ted VS. the Grim Reaper? Stellar! Killer robots from the future - Bill & Ted look-alikes - are out to terminate the real Bill and Ted. Totaly bogus. The Grim Peaper's playing games with our excellent heroes - including Battleship, Clue, and Twister. Most Heinous. Worst of all, if they lose their lives, Bill & Ted's rock group will most surely lose the Battle of the Bands. Non-triumphant. It's not easy being excellent! The 1991 movie was directed Peter Hewitt and starred Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland, George Carlin, and Pam Grier. Excellent! [1 copy available]
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THE BIRDCAGE (Movie Novelization)
by Robert Rodi. Based on the screenplay by Elaine May. Movie still cover. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1996 Plume Trade Paperback, first printing. Light edge wear with a diagonal crease top front cover corner tip. Interior is clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. Light rubbing short area bottom spine. Content: The Birdcage is the most outrageous club in Florida. It's a place where men are men, men are women, and everyone lovest it that way. It's also the home of a nuclear family about to explode. There's Armand, the doting daddy who runs the steamy show and keeps is temperamental performers in check. There's Alfred, a.k.a. Starina, who switches from evening gown to housedress to play the role of mothering mom to the hilt. And there's Val, their suddenly grown-up son. Now Val is bringhome the girl he wants to marry. With his intended bride come her straight-as-arrows, white-bread WASP parents. The 1996 movie was hilarious. Directed by Mike Nichols, it starred Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, and Diane Wiest. [1 copy available]
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BLAKE EDWARDS' THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN (Movie novelization)
by Frank Waldman - from the screenplay by Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards. Condition: Acceptable to good only, 1976 Ballantine paperback, first edition. This is an old book that has not been treated well: the cover has a hinge crease with edgewear, diagonal crease bottom front corner, a very pale near-crease front cover. The interior is clean and tight, but tanning. A good reading copy; not a collectible. Content: An evil genius threatens a bizarre scientific holocaust. . .can this monster be Clouseau's former chief? Can Clouseau escape the bullets of the world's best assassins, and still keep an eye peeled for his dutiful but dangerous man servant, Cato? The 1976 movie stars Peter Sellers (of course), Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, and Lesley-Ann Down. [1 copy available]
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COLD SASSY TREE
by Olive Ann Burns. Cover painting The Feed Store by Janis Price. Condition: UNREAD 1994 Delta Trade Paperback, 25th printing (c. 1999). Small edgewear with light tanning to page edges. Content: Not really a comedy and not really a drama - but still a great book and a great movie. This book is told by Willy Tweedy, a fourteen-year-old boy living in a small, turn-of-the-century Georgia town. Will's hero is his Grandpa Rucker, who runs the town's general store, carrying all the power and privilege thereof. When Grandpa Rucker suddenly marries his store's young milliner barely three weeks after his wife's death, the town is set on its ear. Will Tweedy matures as he watches his family's reaction and adjustment to the news. He is trapped in the awkward phase of rising to adult expectations - driving the first cars in town - while still orchestrating wild pranks and starting scandalous gossip through his childish bragging. He seeks the wisdom of his grandpa and has his eyes opened to southern "ways" under the tutelage of Grandpa's new Yankee wife, Miss Love. Still, Will "couldn't figure out...why in the heck she would marry the old man." But Miss Love's influence seems to be transforming Grandpa into a younger man, and the answer unfolds slowly and sweetly as Will Tweedy becomes the confidante and staunch defender of this unlikely couple. The lessons of life and death, of piousness and irreverence, form the basis of memorable characters and a story that is both difficult to put down and hard to leave. This 1989 made-for-TV (Turner) movie was directed by Joan Tewkesbury and starred Faye Dunaway, the fabulous Richard Widmark (in his last movie, I believe), Frances Fisher, Lee Garlington, John M. Jackson, and Neil Patrick Harris as Will Tweedy. Absolutely wonderful! Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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A DELICATE BALANCE (The Play - Pulitzer Price)
by Edward Albee. Content: UNREAD, but sure not perfect, 1968 Pocket paperback, third printing. Light edge wear with tanning to front cover edges and moerate tanning to page edges. Very readable. Content: Reviewer: "Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play--winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. A dark comedy about unfulfilled lives, broken promises, and family jealousies. A tragedy at times hilarious, the stylized piece is an examination of friendship contrasted with family, in which the playwright creates six delicous characters--roles actors especially love and often perform brilliantly. Katherine Hepburn's filmed version comes to mind--a near perfect expression of the matriarch Agnes, who has several problems: her alcoholic sister is drinking in the living room, her daughter is coming home after a failed 4th marriage, and her friends Edna and Harry have decided to move in because they are "afraid" of something. Agnes's husband Tobias is polite, detached, and reasonable. Against bristling tension, the author uses drunken Claire as comic counterpoint to brilliant effect, giving her an accordion (of all things) as prop with which to accent and poke fun. (There's a wonderful sight gag near the end where this character, who isn't supposed to have one drink, is discovered holding two.) We also smile when mousy Edna tries to re-decorate Agnes's home and speaks to the divorcing Julia as if she were her own daughter. (How easily shyness moves to assertiveness, then imperceptibly to cruelty.) So we laugh to keep from crying--but laugh we do! And although Agnes is unforgettable, nevertheless it is Tobias who gets the climactic "aria," an attempt to put his house in order. The dramatist calls our bluff on what we mean by "friends," fusing big ideas in three elegant acts, crystallizing mysterious beauty from carefully chosen words. The result is a theatrical touchstone, one of Edward Albee's many masterpieces, a magnificent gem of a play." The 1974 movie was direted by Tony Richardson and starred Hepburn, Betsy Blair, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Joseph Cotton, and Kate Reid. [1 copy available]
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DOC HOLLYWOOD (DVD) [1991]
directed by Condition: NEW (still shink-wrapped) Warner DVD. Remainder mark top back box. Content: At first glance, this 1991 comedy looks like another formulaic fluff-piece with a standard fish-out-of-water scenario--in this case a hotshot young doctor (Michael J. Fox) whose cross-country drive to become a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady, South Carolina. But as Fox's character is urged by the folksy locals to stay--an offer made tempting by his romance with a law student (Julie Warner)--this unassuming little movie just gets better and better thanks to a sharp script and a splendid supporting cast. Well, okay ... maybe Woody Harrelson and Bridget Fonda aren't used to the fullest of their abilities, but for the most part this is a charming and surprisingly intelligent comedy that's good enough to compare favorably to My Cousin Vinny, a film with which it shares much in common. Fox has all the right moves to make his character both bullish and ultimately agreeable, and Julie Warner's performance may leave you wondering why this fine actress didn't immediately rise to stardom. Other stars: David Ogden Stiers, Frances Sternhagen (The Closer), and William Cowart. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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DOGMA (DVD)
by Lions Gate Films. Condition: NEW (still shink-wrapped) 2001 Lions Gate DVD. Includes a Bonus Digital copy for PC & PSP. Content: [One of the best movies ever made, IMHO.] WARNING: Language, language, language - wow! Two banished angels (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) have discovered a loophole that would allow them back into heaven; problem is, they'd destroy civilization in the process by proving God fallible. It's up to Bethany (Linda Fiorentino), a lapsed Catholic who works in an abortion clinic, to save the day, with some help from two so-called prophets (Smith and Jason Mewes, as their perennial characters Jay and Silent Bob), the heretofore unknown 13th apostle (Chris Rock), and a sexy, heavenly muse (the sublime Salma Hayek, who almost single-handedly steals the film). In some ways Dogma is a shaggy dog of a road movie--which hits a comic peak when Affleck and Fiorentino banter drunkenly on a train to New Jersey, not realizing they're mortal enemies--and segues into a comedy-action flick as the vengeful angels (who have a taste for blood) try to make their way into heaven. Smith's cast is exceptional--with Fiorentino lending a sardonic gravity to the proceedings, and Jason Lee smirking evilly as the horned devil Azrael--and the film shuffles good-naturedly to its climax (featuring Alanis Morissette as a beatifically silent God), but it just looks so unrelentingly... subpar. Credit Smith with being a daring writer but a less-than-stellar director. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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FOR PETE'S SAKE
by Bradford Street. Barbra Streisand cover. Condition: Very good, pre-read 1974 Avon Books paperback, first printing. Interior clean but tanning. Tiny edgewear. Content: They call her "Henry" - but her real name is Henrietta. And she'd do anything - but anything! - for her man. So when he decides to supplement his cabdriver's income by investing in the commodities market, Henry borrows the money from a loan shark, who becomes somewhat peeved when Henry is unable to pay him off in a week. So he sells her "contract" to the highest bidder, plunging her into a rollicking series of madcap misadventures, culminating in a one-woman cattle drive down the streets of Brooklyn. The 1974 movie starred Streisand, Michael Sarazin, Estelle Parsons, Molly Picon and William Redfield. Directed by Peter Yates. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE: A Novel
by Fannie Flagg. Condition: UNREAD 1998 McGraw-Hill Trade Paperback, second printing, movie edition. Tiny edgewear with pale tanning to page edges. Content: Set in a small Alabama train stop town in the 1930s, this gem of a book almost could have been shelved as just another light romantic comedy. Various women's voices tell anecdotes of Whistle Stop, as the chapters jump back and forth through time. We hear from Mrs. Threadgoode, reminiscing fondly from her nursing home in the 1980s, and the chatty Dot Weems, editor of the gossipy town newsletter (1929-1969), and then listen in on spirited dialogue set in the town of Whistle Stop itself. The storytellers never find use for the label "lesbian," nor do they see fit to take us behind closed doors, but this is nevertheless the irresistible story of a fierce and true love between two women, Idgie and Ruth. After Idgie saves Ruth from an abusive marriage, these two friends become partners in running the Whistle Stop Cafe, where no one, "not even hobos and colored," is turned away for inability to pay. Readers are set down in the corner booth to eavesdrop on the comings and goings of an array of eccentric, ragtag characters who drop in for buttermilk biscuits, Big George's barbecue, and, eventually, news about their own hometown murder mystery. The 1991 movie was directed by Jon Avnet and starred Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell, Stan Shaw, and Fannie Flagg (in a small part). The ultimate chick-flick, IMHO. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE FULL MONTY (Movie Novelization)
by Wendy Holden. Based on a Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy. Movie cover. Condition: NEW 1998 HarperCollins Trade Paperback, second printing. Movie stills back cover. Content: The Full Monty is a brilliant and original comedy about six men driven to face their fears of inadequacy and loss in hard times. Broke, out of work and on the verge of losing their wives and children, they come up with a desperate, brilliant plan: Make like Chippendale dancers and strip for cash! This is the story of a last-ditch attempt by a group of working-class men to redeem themselves as reliable in the eyes of their community. In scenes as hysterical as they are tender, they discover that "the full monty" requires more than dexterity, a fit body and the right moves; and that the confidence they need can only come from stripping bare the deeper issues that trouble their individual lives. The result is a humane, triumphant comedy that has won the hearts of millions around the world. In her novel based on the critically acclaimed box-office hit, Wendy Holden revisits our favorite moments both hilarious and heartwarming. The 1997 movie was directed by Peter Cattaneo and starred Robert Carlyle, the delightful Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, and Emily Woof. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE GRADUATE
by Charles Webb. Dustin Hoffman back cover. Condition: Gently pre-read 1963 Signet paperback edition, 17th printing. Tag removal mark top front cover with light taning to white cover edges and interior pages. Very readable. Content: The action is mainly seen through the eyes of Benjamin Braddock, a confused twenty-one year old, who is worried about his future but who does not simply want to follow the commercial path of his affluent family and their friends. His life becomes complicated when he is embroiled in an affair with an older woman, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner. It becomes impossible when he falls in love with Mrs. Robinson's daughter, Elaine. The 1967 blockbuster movie was directed by Mike Nichols and starared and made major stars of Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, and Anne Bancroft. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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HANGING UP
by Delia Ephron. Movie still cover. Condition: Gently pre-read, if at all, 2000 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Tiny edge wear. There is a pale spine crease but the book is so tight, I'm not sure it has been read. Content: The telephone plays an integral part in screenwriter and nonfiction author Ephron's (How to Eat Like a Child) humorous, if somewhat uncomfortable, look at the senility and death of a parent. Narrator Eve Mozell loves to chat on the phone, playing out nearly all of her relationships by talking into a plastic mouthpiece. Now 44 but still in the role of the unremarkable, overcompensating middle daughter, Eve finds the care of her elderly, alcoholic father foisted upon her by her sisters Georgia, an overbearing magazine editor, and Madeline, a dippy soap opera actress. With little support from either her work-absorbed husband, a public radio commentator, or her teenaged son, Eve struggles to understand the Mozell family neuroses. Flashbacks highlight her parents' scotch-soaked divorce, her mother's subsequent abandonment of the family and her father's descent into alcoholism and general obnoxiousness. Appropriately, a telephone relationship with a stranger helps Eve come to terms with the simultaneous love and disgust she feels for her father. All the phone talk makes the narrative dialogue-heavy, and most of Ephron's characters are gratingly self-absorbed. However, Eve's wry humor and gentle tolerance for these eccentrics and the foibles of life leaven the proceedings nicely. The 2000 movie was directed by Diane Keaton and starred Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau, Adam Arkin and Cloris Leachman. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (Screenplay & DVD - 2 for 1)
by Woody Allen. Farrow, Hershey, and Wiest cover. B&W movie stills illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1987 Vintage original Trade Paperback, first printing. Name inside front cover. The DVD is new & shrink-wrapped. Content: Hannah and Her Sisters follows a multitude of characters: Hannah (Mia Farrow), who plays den mother to her extended family; her sister Lee (Barbara Hershey), emotional and a bit of a flake, who's involved with a much older artist (Max Von Sydow), who treats her like a child; and Hannah's other sister, Holly (Dianne Wiest), a neurotic who feels incapable of managing her life. Hannah's husband Elliot (Michael Caine) falls in love with Lee, which sets off a series of upheavals. Allen gives one of his best performances as Hannah's ex-husband Mickey, who--much like Allen himself--is obsessed with death and unhappiness. But a simple summary doesn't begin to capture the warmth and intimacy of this movie; though the story follows a capsizing family, the outcome is surprising, joyous, and richly human. The 1986 movie was directed by and written by, of course, Woody Allen, and also starred Lewis Black, Carrie Fisher, Maureen O'Sullivan (Farrow's mom), Lloyd Nolan, Daniel Stern, Julie Kavner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and a cameo by the great Bobby Short. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL
by Tucker Max. Color photo section. MOvie cover. Condition: Gently pre-read, I believe, 2009 Citadel Press Trade Paperback, first printing movie tie-in edition. Edge wear with with a slight lift to the cover fore edge. 3 very pale impressions front cover at spine. Content: My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world. Either you think this book is hilarious or you can't wait until winter to toss it in the fireplace. The 2009 movie was directed by Bob Gosse and starred Jesse Bradford, Matt Czuchry, and Traci Lords (hmmmm!). Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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JERKY BOYS: The Book (Animated ovie novelization)
by John Brennan and Kamal. Movie illustrations - color. Condition: UNREAD 1995 HarperPerennial soft cover, first printing. Content: Reviewer: "When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor." The 1995 movie was directed by James Melkonian and featured the voices of John Brennen, Kamal, Alan Arkin, William Hickey, Jorja Fox and Ozzy Osbourne. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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JUNIOR (Movie novelization)
by Leonore Fleischer. Arnie, DeVito, & Thompson photo cover art. Screenplay by Kevin WAde & Chris Conrad. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1994 Jove paperback, first printing. Very pale, short vertical "near crease" top front cover with tiny edgewear. Interior clean & tight with moderate tanning to page edges/thin binder's glue string down spine. Better than it sounds Content: Dr. Alex Hesse is a gifted scientist in the field of genetic research. The Biotechnology Center has pulled the plug on his most brilliant project: the development of a drug that will help expectant mothers carry their babies to full term. Dr. Hesse and his associates refuse to give up their research. So they've stolen a female egg, fertilized and imlanted it in the last place anyone would think of looking . . .inside the body of Dr. Alex Hesse. "Nothing is inconceivable." The 1994 movie was directed by the great Ivan Reitman and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson, Frank Langella, Pamela Reed, and a young Christopher Meloni. Questions welcome. [2 copies available]
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THE LATE SHIFT: Letterman, Leno, & The Network Battle For The Night
by Bill Carter. Two B&W photo sections. Condition: Gently pre-read 1995 Hyperion hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), third printing. Content: This book provides an inside account of one of the hottest behind-the-scenes power struggles in the history of television: the battle for J ohnny Carson's vacant seat on the Tonight Show. The HBO movie of the book was directed by Betty Thomas and starred Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins (Letterman), Daniel Roebuck (Leno), Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr. and Treat Williams. The movie is simply hilarious with all performances being dead-on, especially the performance of Kathy Bates. The book is, of course, more detailed and just as funny. [1 copy available]
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THE LAST TIME I SAW ARCHIE (AKA Archie)
by Rodney Carlisle. Movie stills fromt and back cover. Condition: Good+, 1961 Permabook paperback, second printing. The book is an ex-library with markings but no checkout envelope; edge wear with tanning. Title page is loose but the rest of the book is firm. Delicate. Content: Typical, but fun, wartime story of a guy who knew all the angles and worked the Army like it was his own. The 1961 movie was directed by Jack Webb and starred Webb, Robert Mitchum, Martha Hyer, France Nuyen, Joe Flynn, Don Knotts, and Harvey Lembeck. Great comic supporting cast. [1 copy available]
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LE DIVORCE
by Diane Johnson. Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts movie cover art. Condition: NEW 2003 Plume Trade Paperback, movie edition, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit of such expatriates sojourning in Paris as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and mines the pathos of modern fiction in creating this wonderful and important novel. Isabel Walker, eerily reminiscent of James's Isabel Archer, is a young film-school dropout who travels to Paris to aid her stepsister, who is going through a divorce. Isabel's California cool, American freedoms, and feminist slants comingle, successfully and fractiously, with the customs, biases, and complex sexuality of modern Europe. The result modulates between introspection and hilarity, and a quick, Hollywood-inspired sweep of violent action in the end doesn't undermine the author's mastery of Old World vs. New -- in fact, it provides an ironic scrim. The 2003 film was directed by James Ivory and starred kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, the wonderful Leslie Caron, and a cast of interesting French actors. [1 copy available]
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LEGALLY BLONDE (Original novel)
by Amanda Brown. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 2003 Plume Trade Paperback, third printing. Tiny repaired "cut" bottom back cover edge. Interior clean & tight. Content: Reviewer: "Nobody in the world could have dreamed that Elle Woods would be going to Stanford Law School. Come on! She's Miss June on the school calendar, homecoming queen, and big glamor girl Barbie. However when her long time boyfriend Warner breaks up with her because he needs a girlfriend that is more "serious" and can help him become president Elle decides she is going to prove herself very serious and follows Warner to law school. However from the first day Elle can tell Law School isn't really the place for a blonde. Plus she finds out that this totally unstylish, super serious looking Sarah is now engaged to Warner. However when things finally settle down Elle begins to find that law school isn't so bad. When she takes on the job as summer intern for Christoper Miles she finds that she is beginning to forget Warner. Now her new focus in life is this case about 23 year old Brooke Vandemark who is accused of murdering her 73 year old husband Heyworth Vandemark. It seems the only witness of the crime is Heyworth's 24 year old daughter Chutney. In the end Elle comes through with a trick any Cosmo girl would know to solve the case! There's also a series of "Elle" books. The 2001 blockbuster movie ws directed by Robert Luketic, and starred Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge, and the fab Holland Taylor. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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LIVING IN OBLIVION (Screenplay)
by Tom DiCillo. B&W movie stills & photos illustrate. Condition: Used 1995 Plune Trade Paperback, first pritning. Edge wear, hinge crease, with gift inscription inside front cover. This book has been read, re-read, and passed on. Tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "This is the screenplay for a highly entertaining, if little known independent film - is a pleasure to read. In Tom DiCillo's economic prose, the joys, frustrations and occasionally maddening incivilities of making a low-budget film come vibrantly to life. What's more, the unique, and complex structure (switching from color to black-and-white film stock, clearly indicated as part of the script; and a surprising use of dream-sequences throughout) add a textured layer to the story. I don't think it's necessary to see the film before reading the screenplay (though it can't hurt!) because the characters come to life through their individual foibles, ambitions and unexpected emotional entanglements. The story never bogs down in filmmaking minutiae but you still get a vivid sense of what it's like to stagger onto a make-shift film set at 4 a.m., drinking bad coffee and having trouble getting into character. It's also enormously sympathetic towards and forgiving of each individual character, from the macho cinematographer to the egomaniacal leading man, and most especially, the erstwhile director trying somehow to hold everything together. Highly recommended!" The 1995 movie was written and directed by Tom DiCillo and starred the always strange, always fascinating Steve Buscemi, Dermot Mulroney, Catherine Keener, Danielle von Zerneck, and Kevin Corrigan. Winner of the Sundance Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE MASK (Movie novelization)
by Steve Perry. Based on screenplay by Mike Werb. Jim Carrey cover photo. Condition: Gently pre-read 1994 Bantam paperback, first printing. Pale spine crease with pale diagonal crease bottom front cover corner. Interior clean & tight. Better than it sounds. Content: Stanley Ipkiss is a bank clerk that is an incredibly nice man. Unfortunately, he is too nice for his own good and is a pushover when it comes to confrontations. After one of the worst days of his life, he finds a mask that depicts Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. Now, when he puts it on, he becomes his inner, self: a cartoony romantic wild man. However, a small time crime boss, Dorian Tyrel, comes across this character dubbed "The Mask" by the media. After Ipkiss's alter ego indirectly kills his friend in crime, Tyrel now wants this green-faced goon destroyed. The 1994 movie was directed by Chuck Russell and starred Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Jeni, and Cameron Diaz. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MEN IN BLACK (Movie novelization)
by Steve Perry - based on the screenplay by Ed Solomon. Movie still cover. Condition: NEW 1977 Bantam paperback, first edition, first printing. Content: While much of the world waits and watches the skies for signs of alien civilizations, there is a select group of men who know the truth. That alien beings are here--now--walking among us in human form. These men are members of an agency dedicated to tracking and policing the movements of these aliens--a top secret organization known only as...Men in Black. Hilarious adaptatation and even better movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. [1 copy available]
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METEOR MAN (Movie novelization)
by Cliff Thompson. Based on the screenplay by Robert Townsend. . Movie still cover. Color movie stills section. Condition: UNREAD, but sure not perfect, 1993 Scholastic paperback, first printing. Edge wear with hinge crease. Binder's glue strings down spine. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "Jefferson Reed is a mild mannered school teacher in Washington D.C. He has just discovered that his backbone and it's stronger than steel! Jefferson would rather run than fight until he's hit by a strange green meteor that gives him superhuman abilities. And when a gang led by a powerful drug lord begins terrorizing his family and neighbors, Jefferson has no choice but to don his homemade spandex suit and take it on in a war of cunning, wit and super-powered, super-modeling prowess' to save his 'hood!" The 1993 movie was directed by and starred the ever clever Robert Townsend with Marla Gibbs, James EArl Jones, Robert Guillaume, Don Cheadle, Bill Cosby, and Frank Gorshin. Too funny! [1 copy available]
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Movie companion)
by Michael Hoffman (Director). Wonderful color movie stills illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1999 HarperEntertainment soft cover, first priting. Light edge wear. Content: This glossy companion to Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's classic romance is not merely the text of a screenplay. While it does contain Hoffman's complete script, which radically reworks Shakespeare's play for the modern screen, it also limns the flourishes and creativity of his personal vision. The book is filled with the director's commentary on the play's events and the reasons behind his arresting choices. Readers are afforded the rare opportunity to see production designers' drawings of sets and costumes and to peruse art by Moreau, Waterhouse, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the ancient Etruscans alongside shots from the film that these pieces inspired. Scores of sumptuous photographs accompany the text. Sidebars include commentary by actors Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Stanley Tucci, who portray the chief characters. Hoffman's fascinating introduction relates how he chose his cast, how he imagines Shakespeare's magical world, and why he decided to set the drama in the 19th century: "[The play's] issues of conditioning and subversion led me naturally to the late Victorian setting. In a world dominated by convention, but poised on the verge of a dramatic shift, there seemed no better visual metaphor for the representation of Self than stiff collars, high necklines, tight corsets, and silly accessories. (And then to lose it all in the dark, elemental night)." Additional cast of the 1999 movie are: Christian Bale, Anna Friel, the great David Strathairn, Roger Rees, Sophie Marceau, and Bernard Hill. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR
by John Nichols. B&W illustrations by Rini Templeton. Condition: UNREAD 1966 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Light shelf wear with pale tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "When Joe Mondragon illegally irrigates a puny beanfield, he starts WWIII (New Mexico style) and becomes the unwitting, reluctant symbol of this battle between the haves and the have nots. The book is absolutely hilarious with its wry yet rich descriptions of the people and the cultures clashing in Milagro, NM. But underneath, the end is near and everyone knows it, is resigned to it, but will fight to hold on for as long as possible. What could have been a dull exercise in race relations, regional history, and economic theory, is instead brought to wonderful, earthy life in this charming novel that will make you think, laugh, and perhaps even shed a tear or two." The 1988 movie was directed by Robert Redford and the screenplay was by John Nichols. The wonderful cast (primarily Latino actors): Ruben Blades, Sonja Braga, Julie Carmen, Chick Vennera, Carlos Riquelme (who steals the movie as Amarante), Fredy Fender, and Tony Genaro. The Anglo actors: Christopher Walken, Richard Bradford, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, and Daniel Stern. Oh - and don't forget the wonderful leading pig. [1 copy available]
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MISTER ROBERTS
by Thomas Heggen. B&W illustrations by Samuel Hanks Bryant. Condition: UNREAD 1966 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Very pale shelfwear hinge crease. Content: One of the best movies ever made was based on this book. "The Men of the Reluctant: they were the most lovable and disreputable crew of braggarts, drunkards, lazy good-for-nothings, prctical jokers, and Peeping Toms that ever sailed the seven seas. They had only 2 things in common. Their hatred for Captain Morton, the scrawny, incompetent, palm-tree-loving Popeye who made their lives a living hell - and their love for Mister Roberts, the idealistic second-in-command who fought their battles and shared their zany antics, but who secretly dreamed only of the glory and bravery of war." The wonderful 1955 movie was directed by John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy and starred Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon (Academy Award), & Betsy Palmer. Both book and movie are worth the time. [1 copy available]
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MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
by Gore Vidal. Condition: Good only, 1968 Bantam paperback, first printing. Hinge & spine crease with small edgewear. Interior clean but tanning. Content: This is a genuinely radical and subversive novel that strikes forcibly at the very heart of traditional American values, particularly at the country's conservative sexual mores, though most readers seem to miss the 'unacceptable truth' that the book shrewdly exposes. Oddly, the disastrous film version of 1970, presently in constant rotation on multiple cable channels, made the same point more clearly, which was perhaps somewhat responsible for its critical and box office failure. The movie plot: Myron Breckinridge goes to Europe to have a sex change, and comes back to America as the sexy, man-hating Myra. She enrolls at the acting school of her uncle, conservative Western star Buck Loner, insisting that she is Myron's widow. The movie was directed by Michael Sarne and starred Rex Reed, Raquel Welch, Mae West, John Huston, and a very young Tom Selleck and Farrah Fawcett. Read the book; skip the movie. [1 copy available]
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OH HEAVENLY DOG [Movie Novelization]
by Joe Camp. Color movie stills section. Chevy Chase and Benji cover. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1980 Scholastic paperback, first printing. Lilght edge wear with very light shelf wear. Interior clean and tight with light tanning to page edges. Name marked out insdie front cover. Content: This is Joe Camp's novelization of the 1980 film. Camp, the man behind the Benji phenomenon, co-wrote the screenplay with Rod Browning, and this novelization closely follows the script of the film itself. It's the story of a private investigator attempting to solve a murder under the most unusual of conditions. Benjamin Browning is set up and murdered, at which point he finds himself in a strange place called the Intermediate Destination Evaluation Facility. It's sort of like a toll booth on the way to eternity. Browning is graded Marginal Material, which means he needs to complete a certain mission in order to secure a spot in the Ultimate Reward destination. That mission is to go back and solve his own murder. Unfortunately, Browning has to return to earth in the form of a cute and fluffy little dog. The movie was directed by Joe Camp and starred Chevy Chase, Benji, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, and Robert Morley. Very cute! [1 copy available]
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P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD
by James Kirkwood (he of "A Chorus Line" fame). Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1973 Warner Books edition, 21st printing. Light tanning to white cover edges & darker tanning to interior page edges. Pale shelfwear hinge crease. Interior clean & tight. Content: It's New Year's Eve. Your best friend died in September, you've been robbed twice, your girl friend is leaving you, you've just lost your job. . . and the only one left to talk to is a gay burglar you've got tied up in the kitchen. And oh yes - P.S..... A simply hilarious book! The 2003 stars Steve Guttenberg (who also directed), Lombardo Boyar, Cynthia Watros, Shirley Knight. Tom Wright, and A.J. Benza. It received mixed reviews. [1 copy available]
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POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
by Carrie Fisher. Condition: UNREAD 1988 Pocket paperback, first printing. Bookstore embossed stamp bottom title page. Content: Reviewer: "Carrie Fisher's debut novel is a hoot. The language is very fluid, seeping straight into my imagination with ease; the scenes are sometimes hilarious and other times scary but masterfully written, very impressive for a first book! For those who know anything about Carrie Fisher, they will see that the book is semi-autobiographical; sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I loved the myriad of original analogies and wonderful sentences, the book might be small and a fast read but fun and meaningful at the same time. At one time Carrie compares Suzanne's life to bread in a bakery with her nose stuck on the wrong side of the window, watching life pass by. Few passages really jolted me with wisdom and hilarious comparison to inanimate objects added certain amount of depth to the all ready semi serious book." The 1990 movie was directed by Mike Nichols and the screenplay by Fisher. It starred Meryl Streep (great, but not good for this part), Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Mary Wickes, and Annette Bening. What a cast, eh? [1 copy available]
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RAIN MAN (Movie Novelization)
by Leonore Fleischer. Based on a screenplay by Ronald Bass & Barry Morrow. Hoffman-Cruise cover. Condition: UNREAD 1989 Signet paperback, second printing. Tiny edgewear with a very pale shelfwear hinge crease. Content: Everyone knows this movie - so just a short blurb for the few who don't: Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father dies and leaves a fortune -- to Raymond, the institutionalized savant brother that Charlie didn't know he had. They set out on a cross-country journey of discovery. The 1988 movie was directed by Barry Levinson and starred, of course, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Jack Murdock, Michael D. Roberts, & Barry Levinson as "the doctor." If you haven't seen this movie, run, don't walk, to Blockbuster. [1 copy available]
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THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER (The Play)
by Liam O'Brien. B&W Broadway play stills illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read c. 1954 Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. The book is in excellent condition but the problem is the DJ - medium to large chip top cover edge and edgewear bottom edge. The illustrations (B&W stills) are from the 1953 Broadway play. Content: Before there was Big Love, there was Mr. Pennypacker. Reviewer: "In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed." The 1953 Broadway play starred Burgess Meredith (Pa Pennypacker), Martha Scott (Ma Pennypacker), the great Una Merkel (Aunt Pennypacker), and a host of child actors. The hilarious 1959 movie was directed by Henry Levin and starred the great Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Charles Coburn, Ron Ely (yes, Tarzan!), David Nelson (yes, Ricky's brother), Jill St. John, & wonderful character actor Richard Deacon. BTW, this play and the movie were based on a "real" Mr. Pennypacker - complete with "real" name. If you can find it on AMC or TCM, watch - you'll laugh. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE ROACHES HAVE NO KING
by Daniel Evan Weiss. Condition: NEW 1994 High Risk Trade paperback, second US printing. Content: 'Woody Allen meets Kafka in this wlidly original and funny account of a cockroach consplracy...A novel to make you laugh and squirm' Observer 'The most imaginative and complex novel since Patrick Suskind's Perfume...an implausible, hilarious and beautifully written tale' Vox 'A daring original. A nasty, arch and occasionally funny novel about cockroaches. In an unnamed city (seems like New York), Ira Fishblatt, a bleeding-heart liberal Legal Aid lawyer, is rejected by his live-in lover, The Gypsy. This is much to the dismay of the other inhabitants of Ira's place: hundreds of cockroaches with names like Bismarck, Rosa Luxemburg, and Julia Child (they were born in bookshelves), who enjoyed The Gypsy's messiness and food-throwing. After a brief despondent period, Ira meets the overweight, matronly Ruth Grubstein. Cosseted into the role of good Jewish boy, Ira goes to such lengths to please Ruth that he renovates the kitchen, forcing the kibitzing circle of Blattelae Germanicae out of their homes. The roaches, led by their ringleader Numbers, who's also the book's narrator, swear vengeance. They disrupt a dinner party of Ira and Ruth and their neighbors, the Wainscotts, by causing a blackout that, in a good bit of screwball writing, forces Ira and Elizabeth Wainscott into close quarters in the dark. But Plan A fails, and thus begins Numbers's long journey of the soul to find a more effective revenge on humankind. What follows are comically gruesome scenes described from Numbers's roachy point of view: from toilets, in Ira and Ruth's bed, in the hair of a coke dealer named Rufus, in the sewer system. Weiss's broad ethnic comedy--in dialogue between Jewish Ira, black Rufus, and old-money racist Wainscott--is bracing at first, then flattens. A well-modulated comic novel (one hesitates to say ``picaresque''), only for those with really, really wicked sensibilities. This book was most likely the inspiration for the 1996 movie Joe's Apartment. It was directed by John Payson and starred Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Billy West, Don Ho, David Huddleston, and Robert Vaughn. Sick but cute! Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDERSTERN ARE DEAD (The Play)
by Tom Stoppard. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1968 Grove Press edition, 13th printing. Edge wear with tanning to page edges. Content: Two minor characters from the play, "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them. Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. The 1990 movie was directed by Tom Stoppard and starred Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, and Iain Glen. Also check out 2009's Rosencrantz & Guilderstern Are Undead. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SEND ME NO FLOWERS (Movie Novelization)
by Robert W. Krepps. Based on the play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1964 Gold Medal Books paperback, first printing. Day & Hudson movie stills both covers. Tiny edgewear with very pale shelfwear hinge crease and tanning to interior pages. Content: Now why in the world would a girl complain because she can't get Rock Hudson out of bed? Only Doris Day has the answer -- in the merriest madness since Pillow Talk. The 1964 movie was directed by Norman Jewison and starred that great trio, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall. Supporting actors: the great Paul Lynde, Hal March, and Clint Walker. A very cute movie. A 50s movie made in the 60s. [1 copy available]
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THE SENSE AND SENSIBILITY SCREENPLAY & DIARIES: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film (Movie Novelization)
by Emma Thompson. Beautiful color movie stills as well as B&W photos. Condition: UNREAD 1996 Newmarket soft cover, first edition, first printing. Content: Emma Thompson spent five years translating Jane Austen's work to the screen. Fans of the film will treasure this beautiful volume that includes her screenplay, diaries of the writing and the filming, and many gorgeous color pictures from the film. This wonderful 1995 movie was directed by Ang Lee and starred, of course, Emma Thompson, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Kate Winslet, the great Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, and House - Hugh Laurie. [1 copy available]
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SKIPPING CHRISTMAS: A Novel
by John Grisham. Cover art by Andrew Davidson. Condition: NEW 2001 Doubleday small hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, second printing. Perfect. Content: John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is Skipping Christmas, a modest but funny novel about the tyranny of December 25. Grisham's story revolves around a typical middle-aged American couple, Luther and Nora Krank. On the first Sunday after Thanksgiving they wave their daughter Blair off to Peru to work for the Peace Corps, and they suddenly realize that they are alone for the holiday. So Luther makes an executive decision, telling his wife, friends, and neighbors that "we won't do Christmas." Instead, Luther books a 10-day Caribbean cruise. But things start to turn nasty when horrified neighbors get wind of the Krank's subversive scheme and besiege the couple with questions about their decision. Grisham builds up a funny but increasingly terrifying picture of how this tight-knit community turns on the Kranks, who find themselves under increasing pressure to conform. As the tension mounts, readers may wonder whether they will manage to board their plane on Christmas day. The 2004 movie starred Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, M. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth Franz, Cheech Marin, & the wonderful character actor, Austin Pendleton. Book is much better than the movie. [1 copy available.]
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STRIPES (DVD)
by Columbia Pictures. Movie stills both covers. Condition: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 1998 DVD release of the 1981 film. Content: The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls . Bill Murray was heading toward a career peak on the back of comedies such as this one from 1981, the second film in his ongoing collaboration with director Ivan Reitman (the two went on to make Ghostbusters). Murray plays a chronic loser who joins the army and fails to find a fan for his ironic sensibilities in his by-the-book sergeant (Warren Oates). When push comes to shove, however, the smirking hero takes charge of his ragtag unit and turns them into fighting machines, albeit to the rhythm of hit songs by Manfred Mann and Sly Stone. Its nonstop laughs and rib-tickling stunts. The movie was directed by Ivan Reitman and starred Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, John Candy, Sean Young, John Larroquette, and John Diehl. [1 copy available.]
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TRAINSPOTTING (Dark Comedy)
by Irvine Welsh. Movie stills front cover. Condition: Gently pre-read, 1996 Norton Trade Paperback, third printing. Problems: edge wear with light diagonal creases front cover corners; edge wear; light foxing fore edges. Interoir clean. Content: Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy. The 1996 movie was directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and starred Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Kelly Macdonald, and Robert Carlyle. [1
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THE WAR OF THE ROSES
by Warren Adler. Cover art by Marvin Mattelson. . Condition: Gently pre-read, ex-library book - 1981 Warner Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Has few library markings. Content: In 1989, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito reunited for a third time to fabulous effect in this dark, disturbing comedy of martial trauma and revenge. Douglas and Turner, in career-best performances, are the materialistic, consumer-driven Roses of the title (Oliver and Barbara) whose seemingly perfect marriage has soured beyond repair; their only point of contact, aside from their two college-bound kids (Heather Fairfield & Sean Astin) , is their meticulously maintained dream house, which Douglas bought and Turner decorated to perfection. When Turner gets a taste of financial independence, she asks Douglas for divorce -- all she wants is the house and everything in it. He laughs at her and she punches him in the face. Things only get worse from there, as nasty divorce proceedings (with DeVito as Douglas's lawyer) give way to insults, threats, ruined dinner parties, and pet abuse. And through it all, the Roses begin destroying their beloved home and its contents, just to spite each other. DeVito, who also directed, takes Michael Leeson's blacker-than-black screenplay and gives it a hyperstylized spin, complete with skewed camera angles and wonderfully expressionistic cinematography (by Stephen Burum) as Douglas and Turner barricade themselves in their house, both refusing to give an inch. Shocking for a mainstream studio picture, with its unsympathetic protagonists, escalating bitterness, and disturbing finale, Roses is a poisonously funny valentine to both marriage and '80s materialism, tempered only by its framing device as a cautionary tale. While the book is somewhat different, as is the ending, don't miss either the book or the movie. If you don't like dark comedy, skip it.
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WHAT'S UP, DOC (Movie Novelization)
by Carole Smith. Based on the screenplay by Buck Henry. Streisand and O'Neal front & back covers. Condition: Gently pre-read, if at all, 1972 Avon paperback, 5th printing. Problems: hinge creases with edge wear and rubbings back cover. While the book is clean & tight, the pages show light tanning. Good+. Content: One of the funniest movies ever made, IMHO. Reviewer: "Mild mannered Dr. Howard Bannister is a professor of musicology at the Ames Conservatory of Music in Ames, Iowa. With his straight laced and controlling fiancée Eunice Burns, Howard is in San Francisco to attend the Congress of American Musicologists convention hosted by Frederick Larrabee. The Larrabee Foundation has shortlisted two finalists for the $20,000 Larrabee Grant, the two being pompous Hugh Simon and Howard, whose research involves prehistoric man making music with igneous rocks. Howard's life in San Francisco is turned upside down when he meets Judy Maxwell, a klutzy, directionless but brilliant young woman whose life is spent studying at one educational institution after another, her stint at each being until she's kicked out. It's love at first sight for Judy, who does whatever she can to insinuate herself into Howard's life. Further complications ensue as Howard, Judy, wealthy Mrs. Van Hoskins and reporter Mr. Smith - the latter two who are staying at the same hotel as Howard - all have the identical red plaid overnight bag respectively carrying Howard's igneous rocks, Judy's clothes, Mrs. Van Hoskins jewels and top secret government documents, the latter two which are eyed by others who are trying to get their hands on the contents. Written by Huggo" The 1972 movie starred Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Sorrell Brooke, Michael Murphy, and in her first movie, the great Madeline Kahn. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Don't miss it.
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WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (Movie Screenplay)
by Nora Ephron. Movie still front cover. Condition: NEW 1992 Knopf Trade Paperback, third printing. Content: You haven't seen "Harry & Sally?" Well, here's a quick review: " Screwball comedy is dead. At least it was after motion pictures became colored, and more and more expensive, filled with action and meaningless special effects. "When Harry Met Sally...", however, marks the rebirth of that genre long forgotten. And just like Rob Reiner's 1989 film, Nora Ephron's screenplay transports the charm, the wit and likeability of characters that are not heroic stereotypes or unreal personalities, but everyday people with everyday problems, striving for a not so everyday happy-ending. Featuring the hilarious fake-orgasm scene that easily found its place in movie history, and one of the most touching declarations of love ever written, "When Harry Met Sally..." is a modern classic, a must-read for future screenwriters and playwrights, just as well as for everyone with a sense of humor and a romantic core." Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher (my favorite), the late, great Bruno Kirby, Steven Ford (the President's son) and Harley Jane Kozak. Great movie! Don't miss it. [1 copy available]
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YOURS, MINE AND OURS (DVD, 1968)
directed by Melville Shavelson. Condition: NEW 1968 MGM DVD, still shrink-wrapped. Content: When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family? From finding a house big enough for all of them and learning to make 18 school lunches, to coping with a son going off to war and an unexpected addition to the family, Yours, Mine and Ours attempts to blend two families into one and hopes to answer the question Is bigger really better? The movie stars Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Tom Bosley, and my fav Tim Matheson. While the Dennis Quaid/Rene Russo 2005 re-make is cute, this is the best one. [1 copy available]
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