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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly...
13) Adaptation
Description
Film watchers view the story of a nonfiction book about a "crazy" orchid dealer and at the same time the story of a screenwriter who turns to his twin brother for help in adapting the book.
An original comedy-drama that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles...
15) Movie 43
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
A washed-up producer pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest names in Hollywood. No inappropriate story line is off limits. The film contains jaw-dropping, sometimes shockingly disturbing, but always entertaining intertwined stories.
Pub. Date
[2003], c1953
Description
When two squabbling ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical "The Taming of the Shrew", life imitates art, art imitates live, and it all proves no musical comedy imitates "Kiss Me Kate", the backsstage/onstage delight from the 1948 Broadway smash and featuring 14 peerless Cole Porter songs.
18) Paprika
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A revolutionary machine has been built that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After the machine is stolen, a fearless detective and brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a "dream terrorist."
Pub. Date
[2012].
Description
One night in the tropics: Abbott and Costello play "two stooges employed by Roscoe, a crooked nightclub owner. Having financed a dubious 'love insurance' policy, Roscoe wants the boys to ensure that Steve marries his hard-to-get girlfriend as they travel to fun in the sun aboard a luxury ocean liner bound for San Marcos, South America.".
Buck privates: Abbott and Costello hide in an enlistment center to elude the police, and find themselves in the...
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