Hunting with Barracudas: My Life in Hollywood with the Legendary Iris Burton
by Chris Snyder ()
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(6)
Snyder spent 13 years as the assistant to famed children’s talent-agent Iris Burton, and in this juicy memoir, he reveals what it was like to work for the eccentric agent and her equally offbeat clients. When Snyder came to work for Burton in 1988, her biggest client was the talented, young River Phoenix.
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Posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 10:49 pm by Sylvhania
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Babar’s Yoga for Elephants
by Laurent De Brunhoff ()
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(16)
Well before yoga became fashionable via Sting and Madonna, the beloved elephant king Babar and all the residents of Celesteville were finding peace and tranquillity through yoga. And now elephants everywhere can join them!
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Posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 6:06 pm by Sylvhania
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New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
by Bill Maher (2006-09-05)
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The new rules TV host Maher establishes for "a self-obsessed, success-by-any-means, get-mine culture" make a convincing case for Maher's claim that everyone but him is crazy. Zingers about fads like low-carb dieting and flat-screen televisions poke fun at appearance-obsessed, megalomaniacal American consumers, and his takes on current news stories.
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Posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 8:02 am by Sylvhania
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Mrs. Winterbourne
by Richard Benjamin (2002-02-12)
Sony Pictures (105 minutes)
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(68)
Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia.
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Posted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 4:03 pm by Sylvhania
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The Lie
by Chad Kultgen (2009-03-03)
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A novel that reaches deep into the craven inner workings of some of most depraved minds in America: college students. Brett, the rich hedonist whose appetite for sex is matched only by his contempt for women; his best friend, Kyle, the brooding science geek whose good intentions lead him to one disastrous decision; and Heather, the sorority girl with the power to destroy both.
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Posted: Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:50 pm by Sylvhania
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Doubt
by (2009-04-07)
Miramax (104 minutes)
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Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 2:49 pm by Sylvhania
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Bill Gates
by Marc Aronson ()
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For young people who wonder how Bill Gates became so wealthy so quickly, the book takes readers back in time, to the period when personal computers were so new that a cocky teen who knew his stuff could bluff his way into important contracts as long as he had the know-how and determination to follow through.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 2:52 pm by Sylvhania
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Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
by Daniel Tammet ()
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Although Tammet is only 27, his autobiography is as fascinating as Benjamin Franklin's and John Stuart Mill's, both of which are, like his, about the growth of a mind. He is an autistic savant who can perform hefty arithmetical calculations at lightning speed and acquire speaking competency in a previously unknown language in mere days.
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Posted: Monday, May 25, 2009 at 11:58 am by Sylvhania
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Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories
by Virginia Woolf ()
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A collection displaying the author’s lively imagination and delicate style. Includes "A Haunted House," "A Society," "An Unwritten Novel," "The String Quartet," "Blue & Green," "Kew Gardens," "The Mark on the Wall," and the title story. An excellent entree into the larger body of Woolf’s work.
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Posted: Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 10:12 am by Sylvhania
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The Castle
by Rob Sitch (1999-11-16)
Walt Disney Video (85 minutes)
average customer review: (90)
A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, in a ramshackle suburban tract house so close to an airport that planes fly mere yards above the roof, but to patriarch Darryl Kerrigan it's home. The Castle is the story of how they fight to remain in their house, taking their case as far as the High Court.
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Posted: Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 7:00 pm by Sylvhania
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