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THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (The City Under the City) (Screenplay)
by John Huston and Ben Maddow. From the novel by W. R. Burnett. B&W movie stills illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read 1980 Southern Illinois University Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Light edgewear but the back cover panel shows rubbings along back hinge and panel. Interior clean & tight. Read to page 20 only. Content: The choice of Ben Maddow and John Huston as screenwriters assured the artistic success of the screenplay, for few writer/directors could have matched Huston’s ability to develop these characters cine­matically. It was a case of strength building upon strength. Burnett’s fully devel­oped characters were transformed by Maddow and Huston into a screenplay of impressive immediacy. Indeed the portrayal of the criminals in splendid performances from Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, James Whitmore, Marilyn Monroe (in a small part) and the great Jean Hagen, led Bosley Crowthr to lament, “If only it all weren’t so corrupt!” But the characters of Burnett, Maddow and Huston, don’t permit us to romanticize about them or their activities. We share their professional pride in a robbery well planned and are silent accomplices to their mutual treachery. The Asphalt Jungle was nominated for 1950 best screenplay by the Motion Picture Academy and for best-written American drama by the Writers Guild. John Huston received a nomination for best director by the Academy. As a novel, The Asphalt Jungle has been translated into twelve languages. [1 copy available]
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BARTON FINK and MILLER'S CROSSING (Screenplays)
by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. B&W movie stills illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read, if at all, 1991 Faber and Faber Trade Paperback, first printing. Edgewear with light rubbings back hinge. A couple of pages show light shelf wear, but clean & tight. Content: The award winninig Barton Fink is a dark psychological thriller set in Hollywood in the 1940s. It concerns an aspiring writer who gradually becomes sucked into a grisly world of violence and terror. The 1991 movie starred John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, and John Mahoney. Miller's Crossing reinvents the 1930s gangster film in a complex story of love, friendship and betrayal. The 1990 movie starred Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, and J.E. Freeman. Also included in this volume is an introduction by Coen brothers' sometime editor Roderick Jaynes, who offers a rare insight into their world. [1 copy available]
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BIRDMAN: The Many Faces of Robert Stroud [Signed Copy]
by Jolene Babyak (Eyewitness on Alcatraz). B&W photos illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read, 1994 Ariel Vamp Press Trade Paperback, no printing given (c. 1998). Shelf wear with rubbings down front hinge and a pale diagonal crease top front cover corner. Interior clean & tight. Content: A genius? A scientist? A sociopath? Known to millions as the "Birdman" of Alcatraz. Was he the earnest, warm-hearted "bird doctor" and writer of two books, as portrayed by Burt Lancaster in 1962? Or was he a far more flamboyant and diabolical double-murderer, whose event-filled, tragicomic life converted a 12-year conviction into a 54-year death sentence? Meticulously researched, with never-before-published prison reports and Stroud's own writings, with quotes from prisoners, officers, psychologists and avian pathologists, Birdman explodes the myths surrounding Robert Stroud. While this is not the book that prompted the 1962 movie on Stroud's life (Birdman of Alcatraz), it is a good resource for studying the movie. Directed by John Frankenheimer, the movie starred Burt Lancaster, Thelma Ritter, Karl Malden, Neville Brand, Betty Field, Telly Savalas, and Edmund O'Brien. [1 copy available]
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DEAD MAN WALKING (Movie Edition) [SIGNED COPY]
by Sister Helen Prejean. Movie cover with Sarandon and Penn. Condition: UNREAD 1994 Vintage Trade Paperback, first printing. Light tanning to page edges. Content: SIGNED loose end page. Prejean, a Catholic nun, has written a moral indictment of capital punishment. This book is the result of her visits to two death-row inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary where she serves as a spiritual advisor. Although she documents the inequalities of the judicial system that has condemned these men, her main point is that if society is to inflict this extreme punishment, it should, itself, be perfect. Needless to say, it is not. Opponents of the death penalty will find reinforcement for their cause here. The wonderful, unvarnished movie was directed by Tim Robbins and starred Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, and R. Lee Ermey. This movie, IMHO, is one of the "essentials." [1 copy available]
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DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (Movie Novelization)
by D. Chiel. Based on screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh. Bruce Willis photo front cover. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1995 St. Martin's paperback, first printing. Problem: book has been exposed to humidity - no stains, but the last part of the book is a bit "wavy" from the exposure. Still reads great. Content: A man calling himself "Simon" begins a reign of terror in the streets of New York: he threatens to detonate bombs around the city unless Detective John McClane cooperates in a game of "Simon Says". McClane has a bad hangover and a bad attitude, and isn't in the mood for games, especially this one. The 1995 movie was directed by John McTiernan and starred Bruce Willis (of course), Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, (the great) Graham Greene, Colleen Camp, and Bill Christ. A great movie! [1 copy available]
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DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Movie Edition)
by Patrick Mann. Al Pachino movie poster art front cover. Condition: Good only, 1975 Dell paperback, first printing. Spine crease with rubbings top front cover. Moderate tanning interior page edges. Otherwise, interior clean & tight. Content: Your name is Little Joe and you have big ideas. As far as you're concerned, the law had better be scared of you - scared enough to hand you a million dollars and a jet airliner to take you to a place where you can enjoy the money. And there's nobody to say your're wrong as you and your crew hold a bank full of hostages and start turnign on the heat. The 1975 movie, directed by Sidney Lumet, starred Al Pachino, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, John Cazale, Beulah Garrick, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandan, and Charles Durning. Great humor and excitement. It's one of those must-see movies. [1 copy available]
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THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG: A True Life Nobel (Biographical Novel)
by Norman Mailer. Pulitzer Prize Winner. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1980 Warner Books huge paperback (1024 pages), second printing. Shelf wear diagonal crease (you know - where the jerk just jams the book back on the shelf where there's no room for it) bottom front cover corner. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to pge edges. Content: This is a work of unprecedented force. It is the true story of Gary Gilmore, who in 1977 became the first person executed in the United States since the reinstitution of the death penalty. Gilmore, a violent yet articulate man who chose not to fight his death-penalty sentence, touched off a national debate about capital punishment. He allowed Norman Mailer and researcher Lawrence Schiller complete access to his story. Mailer took the material and produced an immense book with a dry, unwavering voice and meticulous attention to detail on Gilmore's life--particularly his relationship with Nicole Baker, whom Gilmore claims to have killed. What unfolds is a powerful drama, a distorted love affair, and a chilling look into the mind of a murderer in his countdown with a firing squad. The great 1982 TV movie was directed by Lawrence Schiller and starred Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Christine Lahti, Eli Wallach, Pat Corley, and a cameo by Mailer. [1 copy available]
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation
by Robin Moore. B&W photo section. Condition: Like-new (IF read, it was gently), 1969 Little, Brown & Co. hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), Book Club Editoin. Tiny edgewear to DJ bottom spine. Interior clean & tight. Decorated end pages. Content: This book is a "documentary" of some true-life detective work that reads like superior suspense fiction. Detectives First Grade Edward Egan and Salvatore Grosso of New York City caught a late show at a nightclub (Egan's girl friend was hat-check girl there) and while at their table happened to spot some known hoods paying court to the host of a large party. The host was one Patsy Fuca, obviously a somebody. More out of instinct than anything else, the two detectives followed Fuca when he left. Thus began one of the most amazing narcotic investigations in police annals, an investigation which involved grueling months of shadowing underworld characters, piecing together clues, and finally closing in for the payoff: the seizure of the largest cache of heroin ever picked up in New York. Crime syndicate heads in Canada and France were found involved in the international affair. Moore's characterizations of the two detectives are excellent, and his minute-by-minute descriptions of their amazing work lift right off the page. One of the most interesting true crime books ever written, comparable only to The Boston Strangler. We learn everything from the most intimate details of the detectives' personal lives to the methods employed in wiretapping, stakeout, and the use of informers. Robin Moore's book is a superb piece of journalism. The 1971 movie was directed by William Friedkin and starred Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, and Eddie Eagan & Sonny Grosso (the real French Connection cops - who, by the way, went on to have movie and TV acting and producing careers). Didn't Hackman win the Academy Award for this? Worth reading and watching! [1 copy available]
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THE GREEN MILE: A Screenplay
by Frank Darabont. Introduction by Stephen King. B&W movie stills, photos, and story boards illustrate. Condition UNREAD, but not perfect, 1999 Scribner hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Problem: the top of the book had what appears to be a small water splash - NO stain to DJ or book, but an ever so light "wave." Content: Frank Darabont's screenplay is a faithful adaptation of Stephen King's story set on the death-row block at Cold Mountain Correctional Facility during the Great Depression. Starring Tom Hanks, the film is narrated by the superintendent of death row who tells the story of a mysterious inmate, a prisoner with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, who is allegedly guilty of murdering two little girls. While awaiting his execution, the mysterious inmate displays odd supernatural powers that cause his fellow inmates and guards to question their beliefs about everything they hold dear. Included with the full screenplay are selected storyboards and behind-the-scenes photos. The 1999 movie has an excellent cast: Tom Hanks, Michael Clark Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, James Cromwell, the great Graham Greene, Michael Jeter, Jeffrey DeMunn (what a great actor), Barry Pepper, Sam Rockwell, and Harry Dean Stanton. Excellent! [1 copy available]
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE (The Play)
by John Osborne. Nicol Williamson cover. Condition: UNREAD 1966 Grove Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Small edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: William Maitland is a 39-year-old London solicitor who has gazed into the broken mirror of his life and gleaned the terrifying knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." With an irascible wit and a fanged tongue, he spews out tirades of paranoia. A self-pitying child of rage and fear, he drowns his panic in alcohol. He courts oblivion in lust - the bed is his womb and his coffin. He wakes with jittery remorse to smell death's bad breath at dawn. On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits in a prisoner's dock watching his life pass like a funeral cortege. The 1968 movie was directed by Anthony Page and adapted to the screen by John Osborne. It starred Nicol Williamson, Eleanor Fazan, Jill Bennet, & Peter Sallis. [1 copy available]
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THE INCIDENT (Movie Novelization)
by Michael Avallone. Based on the screenplay by Nicholas Baehr. Movie stills form the front cover. Condition UNREAD 1968 Popular Library paperback, first printing. Light tanning to white cover edges with pale tanning to interior edges. Content: The passengers on a New York subway car are terrorized by two teenage delinquents. Although outnumbered, the teenagers take advantage of the passenger's passivity and unwillingness to act together. We watch how the different personalities of the passengers react to the situation. The 1968 movie was directed by Larry Peerce and starred Beau Bridges, Victor Arnold, Robert Bannard, Ruby Dee, Robert Fields, Thelma Ritter, Jack Gilford, Brock Peters, Gary Merrill, Donna Mills, and Tony Musante. An all-star cast and a great look at human nature. [1 copy available]
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L.A. CONFIDENTIAL: The Screenplay
by Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson. Based on the novel by James Ellroy. B&W movie stills throughout. Condition: UNREAD 1997 Warner Books Trade Paperback, third printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Reviewer: "This is one of the most riveting movies I have seen in years and was more than deserving of its Best Picture nomination. The movie is really fast-paced and it is easy to miss things. Even after repeated viewings there are lines that you don't quite understand and clues here and there you don't pick up. After reading the screenplay, everything comes together and one can find the missing pieces in this murder mystery modern film noir. An excellent screenplay to compliment an superb movie." Includes a cast list. The 1997 movie was directed by Curtis Hanson, and starred Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, Danny DeVito, and Kim Basinger (Academy Award). Don't miss it! [1 copy available]
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LETHAL WEAPON (# 1) (Movie Novelization)
by Joel Norst. Based on the screenplay by Shane Black. Glover & Gibson front cover. Condition: Gently pre-read 1987 Jove paperback, first printing. Spine crease with light edgewear. Interior clean. Content: Well, if you don't know about Riggs and Murtaugh (after this movie and 3 sequels), just go back to sleep. One of the most popular movies ever made, it was directed by Richard Donner and starred Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitch Ryan, Tom Atkins, Renée Estevez (in a small part), and Burbank the Cat. [1 copy available]
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OCEAN'S ELEVEN (Movie Novelization)
by Dewey Gram. Bsed on the screenplay by Ted Griffin and a screenplay by Harry Brown & Charles lederer. Condition: Gently pre-read 2001 Onyx paperback, first edition, first printing. Spine crase with tiny edgewear. Content: Everyone knows the plot of both Ocean's 11 - so I won't bore you. While the 2001 movie with George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Brad Pitt, & Julia Roberts is a great heist movie, I still prefer the original - with the Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Biship, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Angie Dickinson. See both - you'll like 'em. [1 copy available]
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THE PELICAN BRIEF
by John Grisham. Movie edition with Julia Roberts cover. Condition: NEW 1993 Island Books (Dell) paperback, 24th printing. Pale tanning to page edges. Content: When Grisham wrote this novel, he had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a Washington Post reporter, Gray Grantham And the rest, as they say, is literary and movie history. The 1993 movie starred Roberts, Denzel Washington, John Heard, and Sam Shepherd. [1 copy available]
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PULP FICTION: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
by Quentin Tarantino. Condition UNREAD, but not perfect, 1994 MIramax/Hyperion Trade Paperback, 3rd printing. Tiny edgewear and the fore edge of one interior page. Content: The complete screenplay of the Best Picture winner at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Taking his inspiration from the popular, and often lurid, "pulp" crime stories of the thirties and forties, Tarantino intertwines three narratives and introduces a variety of fascinating characters: thick-witted hit men, a double-crossing prizefighter on the run, his absent-minded French girlfriend, the hit men-hiring mob boss, his exotic but drug-addled wife, and two young lovers contemplating a career change. Full of wicked humor, dazzling dialogue, and riviting action. The movie starred John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, and Harvel Keitel. A jewel. [1 copy available]
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A RAISIN IN THE SUN (Complete Play)
by Lorraine Hansberry. Movie stills (Sidney Poitier) front & back covers and insert. Condition UNREAD c. 1981 Signet paperback, 21st printing. Tiny edgewear. Interior clean & tight with moderate tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "Hansberry creates the story of the Youngers, a struggling African-American family whose members deal with poverty, racism, and painful conflict among themselves as they reach for a better life. The Youngers are, in my opinion, one of the most unforgettable families in United States literature. Hansberry balances grim drama, comic moments, and redemptive love as the play unfolds." The play was first produced in New York in 1959 and starred Ruby Dee, Glynn Turman, Poitier, Louis Gossett, Jr., Diana Sands, & Ivan Dixon. The 1961 movie was directed by Daniel Petrie, screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry, and starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Jr., and Ivan Dixon. (This is my favorite version.) A TV movie on 1989 starred Danny Glover, Esther Rolle, & Josh Fielder. A new movie coming in 2007 will star Sean Combs, Sanaa Lathan, Audra MacDonald, and Phylicia Rashad. That one should be interesting. [1 copy available]
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ROAD TO PERDITION (Movie Novelization)
by Max Allan Collins. Based on Screenplay by David Self. Color movie stills section & cover. Condition NEW 2002 Onyx paperback, first edition, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Originally published as a single-volume graphic novel in 1998, this is the comics work upon which the Tom Hanks movie is based. It's the story of Michael O'Sullivan, a feared and religiously inclined mob hit man who's brutally betrayed-and the fierce vengeance he wreaks in 1930 "gangland." The 2002 movie, directed by Sam Mendes, starred Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, & Jude Law and is dark and brooding. Wonderful pic. [1 copy available]
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SEVEN (Movie Novelization)
by Anthony Bruno. Based on the screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker. Freeman & Pitt cover photo. Condition: UNREAD 1995 St. Martin's paperback, first editon, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Interior perfect. Content: How Do I Kill Thee? Let Me Count the Ways. Reviewer: "Based on the 1995 bleak and disturbing movie starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow, this is a very neat, economic thriller. It captures the sense of dread that permeates the movie and also, it gives some insight on the motivations of Somerset and Mills... but surprisingly, the motivations of John Doe (The murderer) come across as too easy and bland. Still, as far as film novelizations go, this one is actually quite good and satisfying... and can be read without thinking of the film at all, which gives it a strength of its own." Directed by David Fincher. [1 copy available]
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THE SEVEN-UPS (Movie Novelization)
by Richard Posner. Based on the screenplay by Al Rueben & Alexander Jacobs. Story of Sonny Grosso. Movie stills cover art. Condition: Very good +, 1973 Fawcett Gold Medal paperback, first printing. Pale hinge crease with moderate tanning to interior page edges. Interior clean & tight. Content: One of the best of the 1970s "cop movies." A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money. New York City cops wage a war against assorted hoods and criminals after one of their own is brutally killed by a hoodlum. Seven-Ups refers to the minimum jail time each of the crooks will have to spend if they are caught. Directed by Philip D'Antoni, this 1973 movie starred Roy Scheider, Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon, Ken Kercheval, Tony Lo Bianco, and Sonny Grosso. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SLIVER
by Ira Levin. Condition: UNREAD c. 1991 Bantam Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), perhaps a Book Club Edition, but no information given. DJ has small "repaired" tear bottom flap. Interior clean & tight. Content: Levin draws on his experience as a screen playwright during the Golden Age of Television to create hero Sam Yale, a down-and-out veteran TV director who lives in a "sliver" high rise in Manhattan's Carnegie Hill district. The novel's central character is Yale's neighbor, Kay Norris, an editor at a major publishing house. The young son of a famous soap actress owns their building and seems t know everything about his tenants, past and present--including several who met grisly deaths. When it's almost too late, Norris and Yale discover their demonic landlord's secret--that he watches real-life daytime (and nighttime) dramas with TV monitors he has placed in each apartment. The 1993 movie was directed by Philip Noyce and starred Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger (the great), Polly Walker (Rome), Colleen Camp, Nina Foch, Martin Landau, CCH Pounder, Keene Curtis, and Tony Peck. A great cast for such a limp movie. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
by Patricia Highsmith. Movie still cover art. Condition: NEW 1992 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Trade Paperback, 6th printing. Content: One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf's son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is held captive both by the Mediterranean climate and the attractions of his female companion, but Mr. Greenleaf needs him back in New York to help with the family business. With an allowance and a new purpose, Tom leaves behind his dismal city apartment to begin his career as a return escort. But Tom, too, is captivated by Italy. He is also taken with the life and looks of Dickie Greenleaf. He insinuates himself into Dickie's world and soon finds that his passion for a lifestyle of wealth and sophistication transcends moral compunction. Tom will become Dickie Greenleaf--at all costs. The 1999 movie was directed by Anthony Minghella and starred Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and James Rebhorn. [1 copy available]
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TEACH ME TO KILL: The Shocking True Story of Pamela Smart - The Schoolteacher Who Gave Lessons in Love And Murder
by Stephen Sawicki. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD, but far from perfect, 1991 Avon Books paperback, first printing. Edgewear with pale vertical crease bottom front cover. Name loose end page. Thin binder's glue string down spine. Tanning to page edges. Content: Pretty & popular, high school teacher Pamela Wojas Smart loved good times, rock-and-roll and her husband Gregg. Then, on the evening of May 1, 1990 - six days before their first weeding anniversary - she found him lying in the hallway of their Derry, New Hampshire home, shot dead by a .38 revolver fired at close range. The grieving widow wept for ther slain husband. But the police investigation that followed would soon reveal the shocking truth about Pam Smart - esposing her as a promiscuous, cold-blooded manipular who lured three of her teenaged students into a sordid conspiracy of cheap thrills, lurid sex. . . and brutal, premedicated murder. There are 2 movies based, or loosely based, on this case. The 1991 movie Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story was directed by Joyce Chopra and starred Helen Hunt, Chad Allen, Larry Drake, Riff Regan, Hank Stratton, and Ken Howard. The more famous movie based on this case is the excellent 1995 dark comedy To Die For directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Dan Hedaya, Buck Henry, and the great Holland Taylor. I've not see the first movie, but To Die For is a modern classic. [1 copy available]
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
by Harper Lee. Condition: Very Good 1982 Time Warner paperback, 21st printing. Pale spine crease with light tanning to interior page edges. Content: Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up. The movie, starring Gregory Peck and created by Alan Pakula, Robert Mulligan and Horton Foote, is ranked number 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, created one of the great characters in film history - lawyer Atticus Finch. Read the book/see the movie/enjoy! [1 copy available]
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