My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

by Chelsea Handler (2005-05-12)
average customer review: (721)

Opening with a cute story from when she was seven and photographed her parents having sex, stand-up comedian Handler goes on to discuss the virtues of the one-night stand, which amount to having sex early enough so you're not months into a relationship before you discover he's into "anal beads and duct tape."

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Posted: Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 11:53 pm by Sylvhania
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Nine Wives

by Dan Elish (2005-07-14)
average customer review: (10)

After attending eight weddings in a single year, bachelor Henry Mann decides it's time to find a bride. The problem, it seems, is that Henry's real life pales in comparison to the fantasies he concocts.

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Posted: Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 6:49 pm by Sylvhania
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Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

by Scott Turow ()
average customer review: (25)

In 1999, Governor George Ryan of Illinois asked the author, a lawyer turned novelist, to sit on a commission to study the death penalty. Turow's storytelling ability transforms what he learned during that inquiry into a thought-provoking treatise based upon his experience in capital cases, personal interviews, extensive reading, and the proceedings he attended.

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Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008 at 9:46 pm by Sylvhania
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The Station Agent

by (2004-06-15)
Miramax (89 minutes)
average customer review: (165)

The film revolves around a reserved, somber dwarf (Peter Dinklage, immortalized by his brilliant ticked-off tirade in Living in Oblivion), a train enthusiast who inherits a small depot in rural New Jersey. The key is Dinklage's smoldering performance, one of those reminders that a single scowl is worth pages of conversation.

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Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008 at 11:12 am by Sylvhania
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Stage Fright

by Alfred Hitchcock (2004-09-07)
Warner Home Video (110 minutes)
average customer review: (57)

In suspense films characters frequently deceive one another. But can the camera tell a lie? This is one of the questions that Hitchcock takes up in Stage Fright (1950), and his answer has puzzled, infuriated, and delighted audiences ever since its initial release.

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Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008 at 9:25 am by Sylvhania
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Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel

by Garrison Keillor ()
average customer review: (34)

Clint Bunsen of Keillor's Lake Wobegon is planning his sixth Fourth of July celebration, but by the time it rolls around he's been booted from the planning committee; his wife, Irene, is chillier than ever; and his 60-something hormones have him lusting after the much-younger Angelica Pflame, whose commando performance as the Statue of Liberty in last year's parade is still a hot topic in the sleepy burg.

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Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 1:57 pm by Sylvhania
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The Page Turner “La Tourneuse de Pages”

by Denis Dercourt (2007-07-10)
Tartan Video (85 minutes)
average customer review: (24)

Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted piano player. Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, unfortunately she gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes the former president of the jury's page turner, waiting patiently to be revenged.

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Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 12:19 pm by Sylvhania
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Faith and Politics: How the “Moral Values” Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together

by Senator John Danforth ()
average customer review: (32)

Danforth oozes sincerity and good sense as he excoriates "Christian conservatives" for corrupting religious doctrine on reproduction and marriage and inappropriately inserting it in government. Conceding that he's an imperfect human being who sometimes failed as a student, husband, father, lawyer, minister and senator, Danforth comes across as a welcome paragon of virtue.

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Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 1:30 pm by Sylvhania
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