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The Shooting Script $6.99 Following his critically acclaimed novel The Cutting Room, Laurence Klavan returns with The Shooting Script. Establishing shot: New York City, present day. Zoom in on a run-down tenement building, somewhere west of Times Square, the home of Roy Milano, a thirtyish, divorced typesetter who lives for the movies. In fact, by pursuing the legendary uncut print of Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons, Roy has become something of a minor celebrity among the fellow misfit film fanatics he caters to in his homemade newsletter, Trivial Man. But there’s nothing trivial when Roy’s old rival Abner Cooley shows up with a check in his hand and the words “Someone is trying to kill me” on his lips. With his mother ailing, Roy needs the money as badly as Cooley needs someone to head off a trigger-happy stalker who’s determined to put both him and his controversial new screenplay into permanent turnaround. And though Roy does his best, like many a private eye before him, he quickly finds his head turned by an enticing distraction. Not a femme fatale, but a flick. Roy is all but powerless to resist an e-mail from a mysterious fan that lures him with the promise of an elusive treasure as fiercely sought after by the celluloid cognoscenti as the Ark of the Covenant was by Indiana Jones. It’s Jerry Lewis’ famous unreleased drama, The Day the Clown Cried. But when he arrives at a rendezvous too late to save a dying man, Roy realizes he’s stumbled into a dangerous race to possess a piece of cinema history. To catch up, he’ll have to match wits with a rogues’ gallery: a bored and bitter superstar comedian, a hot-shot producer turned drugged-out has-been, a ferocious German actor who likes to role-play off-camera, a mercurial director with a scary sense of humor, and a hard-bitten cop who’s mad about movies. Meanwhile, Roy will be tempted by the wiles of three fetching females–and tormented by a single-minded psychopath with more faces than Lon Chaney. He’ll even go on location, pursuing and being pursued from the mansions of the Hamptons to the harbors of Maine, the boulevards of L.A. to the canals of Amsterdam. No one’s ever gone to this much trouble just to see a movie. But for Roy, the reward far outweighs the risk. And a chance to glimpse the Big Picture might just be worth coming face-to-face with the Big Sleep. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Shooting Script $6.99 Fresh from solving the murder of a fashion magnate’s wife in Live at 10:00, Dead at 10:15 , TV newsmagazine producer Sonya Iverson returns in Shooting Script , another luxurious thriller from Elsa Klensch. Once again working on a “puff piece,” this time about the opening of a new luxury spa headed by the third and youngest wife of Errol Swanson, former head of Sonya’s own network, Sonya decides to put her frustration to good use. She’s an investigative reporter—so she’ll investigate. And there’s plenty of dirt to dig. For one thing, the head honchos at the network all seem scared of Errol—even Donna Fuller, Sonya’s boss and a crusading journalist, treads softly where Errol is concerned. Rumors claim that Donna and Errol had an affair, and Errol’s made a heavy-handed pass at Sonya. Then there are the wives. Wife #1, Joan, is eating herself to death and trying desperately to wrest control of her family toy business away from her supposedly retired ex-husband. Craig, her son with Errol, disappeared a decade ago and is presumed dead; his twin sister, Christy, is mentally and emotionally unstable and has been the family scapegoat for years. Wife #2, Margot, is a successful fashion designer who still lives in fear of Errol’s notoriously violent temper. He’s got his hooks into her business too, and the loans are due. Margot brings a gun to the spa, to protect herself and her charming son, Tomas. Tomas, a budding fashion model, wants his father to accept him, but his homosexuality disgusts Errol, and the two men have never had a civil conversation. Wife #3, Lara, seems to be full of love and human kindness. She’s engineered a family reunion along with the spa opening in an attempt to reconcile her husband with his wives and children before her own baby is born. Learning of Errol’s past cruelties, Lara does her best to soften her hard-headed husband, but his unusual sexual demands have begun to wear on her soul. Lara has secrets of her own, a dark past that may soon be exposed. Rounding out the family gathering are Errol’s Aunt Tracey, who knows where the bodies are buried—perhaps literally—and Sonya’s fellow reporter Frank O’Neill, who has a deeply personal connection to Lara and who is preparing a book-length expose of Errol Swanson. When Errol is found, shot to death while tied to the bed he and Lara shared, the morning after a family dinner marked by vituperation and violence, local police have an abundance of suspects. But Sonya is already several steps ahead of the official investigation. She’s determined to find out who killed the mogul . . . and get her scoop on the air. |
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Sideways: The Shooting Script $18.49 Based on the novel by Rex Pickett, Sideways follows Miles (Giamatti) and Jack (Church) on their trip through the Santa Barbara wine country, the week before Jack’s wedding. Trouble ensues with wine and women (played by Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh) and the duo comes to some profound realizations as they come to terms with maturity. The Newmarket Shooting Script book includes the complete screenplay, original pieces written exclusively for the book by novelist Rex Pickett and Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers, and a study guide prepared by the screenwriters. |
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The Wizard of Oz: The Ultimate Oz [VHS] $15.99 When it was released during Hollywood’s golden year of 1939, The Wizard of Oz didn’t start out as the perennial classic it has since become. The film did respectable business, but it wasn’t until its debut on television that this family favorite saw its popularity soar. And while Oz’s TV broadcasts are now controlled by media mogul Ted Turner (who owns the rights), the advent of home video has mad… |
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Grease 20th Anniversary Edition VHS **PLUS 3 FREE GIFTS: Grease 2 VHS *PLUS* Grease Movie Screenplay – Final Shooting Script For Motion Picture ‘Grease’ – Grease Is Still The Word – Fourth Draft *PLUS* RARE ORIGINAL 1978 Cassette Soundtrack **OWN THIS COLLECTIBLE VHS AND ENJOY 3 FREE GIFTS! ‘Grease 20th Anniversary Edition’ VHS Includes New Interviews With John Travolta And Olivia Newton-John. *PLUS* ‘Grease 2′ VHS: Many Familiar Faces From The Smash Hit Return To Campus, And New Ones Are Equally Memorable In This Happy Tribute To Straight Skirts, Girl-Chasing And Young Love. *PLUS* ‘Grease Is Still The Word – Fourth Draft’ – Screenp… |
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More Than a Game $6.42 Stills from More Than a Game (Click for larger image) … |
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A Midwinter’s Tale: The Shooting Script $9.24 New – The script of this hilarious, original romantic comedy, written and directed by Branagh, starring Michael Maloney and Joan Collins is enhanced by Branagh’s introduction discussing his serious views about comedy and writing. “A comic valentine to diehard thespian dedication”. — Stephen Holden, The New York Times. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Script Book: Season 2, v. 3 $1.99 Used – Continuing the Pocket Books collection of complete Buffy scripts that enables fans to relive their favourite moments and savour their favourite lines…The complete Pocket Books collection of Buffy scripts now reaches the third volume of season two, with another five facsimile original shooting scripts from the show. In a series renowned for the quality of its writing and its snappy, insightful dialogue this volume brings you the best of the best: the pivotal season two story arc in which |