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Great Courses volume 23
Language
English
Description
Write what you know is a common dictum, but what happens when you run up against the limits of your knowledge? What if you want to write a story about something other than your own life? What real-life details do you have an obligation to get right? Find out how fiction writers approach the unknown.
2) Casablanca
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English
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Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Elmo has a lot of favorite stories, and he wants to share them all with you. Join Sesame Street's furry red monster and friends as they read all about Humpty Dumpty and Maria the Cowgirl. Can they reenact Maria's showdown with Bad Duck without ruining the happy ending? These furry little monsters also love making up their own stories. Rosita writes a story about her Mexican heritage, Elmo illustrates his Letter G Adventure and Rosita write their very...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The gang is still grooving, but it's time for everyone to do some semi-serious thinking about their future. Eric and Donna pick up the pieces of their broken engagement and decide to just hang out and have fun. Hyde gets to know his funky father and foxy half-sister. Jackie gets her own public access TV show, while Kelso struggles to treat women with more respect after the birth of his daughter. And Fez finds his true calling as the shampoo boy at...
9) Cobb
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Set in 1960, "Cobb," is a series of duets between two men. Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb and Al Stump. "The Georgia Peach," while perhaps the greatest baseball player who ever lived, was also a racist, a wife-beater, and probably a killer. Stump was a sportswriter with the job of a lifetime--a biography with full access to the principal. Cobb envisions the book as his way of controlling how history sees him, a piece of self-serving, glorifying hogwash....
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ben had bigger dreams than serving chai lattes to hipsters. He had wanted to be a singer and a songwriter. But life doesn't always follow the script we try to write. Ben has a family and bills to pay. So when he's offered a manager position at the coffee shop, his financial problems seemed to be solved. Then a new reality television show "The Song" comes to town. Without him knowing it, Ben's precocious ten-year-old daughter has entered Ben in thecompetition....