Margaret Cho
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the razor-sharp mind of comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a collection of hilarious and insightful essays about the exasperating issues of everyday life. All Things Aside is a punchy, honest, incisive book that shares a view of the world through the eyes of the inimitable Iliza Shlesinger. From the macro to micro, Shlesinger tackles it all with her no-bullshit comedic style. Throughout the book, Shlesinger dives from one subject into the next,...
Publisher
Seal Press
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for a paradigm shift from the "No Means No" model--and the result was the groundbreaking shift to today's affirmative consent model ("Yes Means Yes," as coined by this book). With a timely...
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Present a collection of unconventional essays by leading writers to challenge how students think about essays using imaginative, rule-breaking, and unconventional examples.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 567 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Life can really throw you curves--especially in this breakthrough comedic drama. "Drop dead Diva" tells the story of Deb, a shallow model who dies in a sudden accident. By a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, her soul resurfaces in the body of Jane, a smart, plus-sized and recently deceased attorney. As she confronts the challenges of her adventurous new life, love and career, she must learn to reconcile her beauty queen ways with her...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Barry Crimmins, a beer-swilling, politically outspoken and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 70s and 80s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. But beneath Crimmins' gruff, hard drinking, curmudgeonly persona lay an undercurrent of rage stemming from his long-surpressed and horrific abuse as a child, a rage that eventually found its way out of the comedy clubs and into the political arena.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (561 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the car accident that left Grayson in a coma, Jane finds herself struggling with her desire to reveal herself as Deb when he wakes up; Teri enlists Grayson to help her firefighter boyfriend after he is sued for rescuing a neighbor from a burning building; Parker organizes a bachelor party for Grayson, who incidentally gives a stripper legal advice that leads to her subsequent firing; Jane is held at gunpoint while picking up the wedding...
8) Faith ba$ed
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When two friends come to realization that every low budget Christian movie makes millions of dollars, they set out to make one of their own.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (569 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When beautiful-but-vapid model Deb dies in a car accident, she awakes and finds herself in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.
10) Do I sound gay?
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a break-up with his boyfriend, journalist David Thorpe embarks on a hilarious and touching journey of self-discovery, confronting his anxiety about "sounding gay". Enlisting acting coaches, linguists, friends, family, total strangers, and celebrities, he quickly learns that many people, both gay and straight, often wish for a different voice. What starts as a personal journey becomes a chance to unpack layers of cultural baggage concerning sexuality,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (562 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lifetime's critically acclaimed hit series, 'Drop Dead Diva,' returns for a fourth season with 13 new episodes. Joining the series' roster of top name guest stars is Kim Kardashian ('Keeping Up with the Kardashians'), who makes her multiple episode debut in the season opener.
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Kroot's documentary about the creator of Tales of the City moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of '70's San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 450 min. ) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A unique television series presenting 37 diverse artists working in the United States today, taking viewers behind the scenes--and beyond the museum or gallery experience--into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative processes, and sources of inspiration. Themes provide a connective thread between profiles of three to five artists per program. The artists, including painters, photographers,...
15) The lost room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen 2-disc [ed.]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (284 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, an unknown event at the Sunshine Motel caused ordinary things in Room 10 to transform into items of wonder: indestructible objects with extraordinary powers that are sought by those who know their secrets.
16) One missed call
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beth Raymond is a college student who begins losing all her friends after one of her classmates is found dead. She doesn't understand why. All she knows is that each of her friends received a voicemail on their cell phones, one that told them when they would die and what they would say at the moment of their death. Each time a person gets a call, his or her phone plays a quiet music box lullaby instead of its normal ring tone. After the person hears...
17) Face/off
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must go undercover to investigate the location of a lethal biological weapon planted by his arch rival, terrorist-for-hire Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). After undergoing a radical surgical procedure, Archer literally "borrows" Troy's face and identity to carry out his mission. But things go awry when Troy, emerging from a coma, is transformed into Archer and wreaks havoc upon his life, both at work and at home.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This 10-part series, with the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., delves into the genealogy and genetics of famous Americans, combining history and science in a fascinating exploration of race, family and identity in today's America.