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...
12) 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.
13) 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...
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.
19) 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.