Carl Reiner
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Romance novelist, Nat Noland, is suffering from writer's block when he makes up a silly email address sending a list to God of ideas for punishments. When God replies, Nat, a die hard atheist is shocked. Now, Nat keeps getting messages from God and he's having a very hard time concentrating on his new novel.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
More than once, friends of Carl Reiner said, "You ought to write those things down." And at the age of eighty, Carl finally did. In this funny and engaging memoir, Reiner recounts his show business life in short comic takes. After answering an ad for free acting classes, he forsook a budding vocation as a machinist for an acting career. Reiner recalls the highlights of the succeeding decades: his first sweaty audition - impersonating a dog impersonating...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this classic satiric novel, published in 1889, Hank Morgan, a supervisor in a Connecticut gun factory, falls unconscious after being whacked on the head. When he wakes up he finds himself in Britain in 528-- where he is immediately captured, hauled back to Camelot to be exhibited before the knights of King Arthur's Round Table, and sentenced to death. Things are not looking good. But Hank is a quick-witted and enterprising fellow, and in the process...
Author
Publisher
Dove Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Here at last is the sequel to Tell Me a Scary Story, complete with a read-along CD filled with even more of the scary stuff children love-odd beams of light coming from nowhere, oodles of goopy goo, memorable characters, and mysteries for kids to solve-if they dare. As the story becomes scarier, Reiner pauses to ask readers, "Shall we turn the page, or is it too scary?" That's for kids to decide! Here's a fun book with delicious thrills that children...
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
One of America's funniest comedians, Carl Reiner, tells of a young man's frustrations as a machinist's helper who tries to break into show business. The semi-autobiographical novel details the bumpy journey as the aspiring actor tries to extricate himself from his overly protective parents - and his two girlfriends. Enter Laughing is a heart-warming, laugh-out-loud, and relatable story of a young man with love in his heart and greasepaint on his face...
11) Summer rental
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A stressed-out air traffic controller's much-needed family holiday turns into a series of disasters.
13) "Oh, God!"
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Landers, (John Denver) a supermarket assistant manager and a good yet non-religious person, suddenly finds a note in the mail one day that grants him an "interveiw" with God. Thinking it to be a hoax he tosses it away, but when it keeps reappearing he finally gives in. Skeptical at first, he ends up carrying His personal message - that the world can work with what God's given us.
14) All of me
Series
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Roger Cobb is a swinging bachelor, a lawyer, and a jazz musician. Edwina Cutwaters is a terminally ill spinster who is given another chance at life if her soul can be transported into another woman. However, the guru goofs, and Edwina's soul takes over the right side of Roger.
15) Ocean's thirteen
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Banks in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to finding amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't stand for Banks and what he's done to a friend. Uniting...
18) Ocean's eleven
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The story focuses on the riotous confusion created when a Russian submarine gets stuck on a New England sandbar and the landing crew goes ashore for help-only to be mistaken for an invasion force by the over-imaginative townspeople.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"On the road to womanhood in the '70's, Vivian ... is encountering two big bumps: her strangely nomadic family--always on the move, yet desperate to stay in the Beverly Hills school district--and her blossoming sexuality. Add Viv's vivacious cousin ... to the mix, and you've got an explosive coming-of-age story that proves you don't have to be rich to have first-class fun"--Verso of container.