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The George Burns and Gracie Allen showThe husband and wife comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen developed their popular routine over more than three decades of stage, radio, film and television. They were one of the best-known couples in Hollywood history. Burns left most of the laughs to Allen, who had a way of engaging in dialogues of "illogical logic" that left her verbal opponents dazed and her audiences in stitches. Burns, entertainment’s most nimble straight man, balanced Allen’s scatterbrained antics. Their chemistry made The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show an instant hit when it moved from radio to television in 1950.
The Dick Van Dyke show : fan favoritesEnjoy the best of one of America’s most popular TV comedies with a phenomenal cast. The special 50th anniversary collection includes 20 classic episodes.
- The Dick Van Dyke show : fan favorites
Enjoy the best of one of America’s most popular TV comedies with a phenomenal cast. The special 50th anniversary collection includes 20 classic episodes.
- The Dick Van Dyke show : fan favorites
Enjoy the best of one of America’s most popular TV comedies with a phenomenal cast. The special 50th anniversary collection includes 20 classic episodes.
- The Dick Van Dyke show : fan favorites
Enjoy the best of one of America’s most popular TV comedies with a phenomenal cast. The special 50th anniversary collection includes 20 classic episodes.
- The Buddy Holly story
Buddy Holly was a musical genius from Lubbock, Texas, who changed the tune of rock ’n’ roll history--this is his story.
- The Dick Van Dyke show : fan favorites
Enjoy the best of one of America’s most popular TV comedies with a phenomenal cast. The special 50th anniversary collection includes 20 classic episodes.
La BambaThe man, the myth, and the music that brought America to its feet and catapulted 17 year-old Ritchie Valens to rock ’n’ roll stardom live again.
- As you like it
Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare’s play, a pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France.
Arcimboldo : nature and fantasyThe inventive and amusing paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo dazzled the courts of Europe. His combinations of fruits, vegetables, and flowers created portraits of emperors and witty caricatures of their courtiers, which won him the highest artistic honors bestowed by the Holy Roman Empire. Featured is original footage of his native Milan and the Habsburg palaces of Vienna and Prague with images of Arcimboldo’s work as a court painter, designer of festivals, and chronicler of the natural world.
Popular Titles
In one person : a novel
No one is here except all of us
The dressmaker : a novel- Black swan
Nina is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company. Her life, like most in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her mother Erica, a former ballerina who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: new dancer Lily, who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.
MockingjayKatniss Everdeen’s having survived the Hunter games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and serve as their pawn.
Completely Hollywood (abridged)
Catching fireBy winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
- The hurt locker
US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company’s bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with that of their new leader. James’ thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate goal regardless of the safety of his fellow team members, others on the scene or himself. On the other hand, Sanborn is by the book: he knows his place and duty and trusts others in the army to carry out theirs as well as he. Eldridge is an insecure soldier who is constantly worried that an error or misjudgment on his part will lead to the death of an innocent civilian or a military colleague. While the three members face their own internal issues, they have to be aware of any person at the bomb sites, some of whom may be bombers themselves.
Brain-based learning : the new paradigm of teaching
Corporate finance
