Reiner, Carl

Summary: The award-winning actor and director recalls the major events in his life through a series of short stories, including "Sidney Bechet and His Jazz Band Meet Franz Kafka" and "Mary Tyler Moore Made Me Quake."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 REI

Reiner, Carl

Contents: 2000 year old man -- Fabiola -- The astronaught -- In a coffee house. The depressed one ; The actor ; The painter ; The folksinger -- The Peruvian -- The psychiatrist -- 2000 and six month man -- The tax expert -- Two hour old baby -- The new technique psychiatric society -- The third best poet -- The Cannes Film Festival. Adolph Hartler ; Frederico Fettucini ; Tippy Skittles -- Dr. Felix...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN TWO

Reiner, Carl

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Audio 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REINER, CARL REI

Summary: The Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which served affordable food to millions of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. Founded by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart in 1888, it revolutionized the nation's restaurant scene with technology that captured the public's imagination like nothing else the customer put nickels into slots, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AUT

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUS

Summary: One of the wackiest and zaniest comedians of all time takes center stage in three of his best films ever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2007

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STE

Summary: When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Bank in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Bank. Bank even goes so far as to find 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ocean's

Summary: A fairy promises real life if puppet Pinocchio can prove he is kind, honest, and loving. A wayward huckster tries to lead the puppet astray but Pinocchio decides to perform a redeeming act of bravery and kindness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Starmaker II, LCC 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PIN

Summary: When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel in Las Vegas with casino owner Willy Banks, the last thing Tishkoff wants is to get cut out of the deal by Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to find amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when Tishkoff lands in the hospital with a heart attack. Danny Ocean and his crew won't stand for Banks has done to a friend. Uniting...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OCE RATED PG-13

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY OCE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OCE

Summary: Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 2000

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD J

Summary: Jerry Landers, (John Denver) a supermarket assistant manager and a good yet non-religious person, suddenly finds a note in the mail one day that grants him an "interveiw" with God. Thinking it to be a hoax he tosses it away, but when it keeps reappearing he finally gives in. Skeptical at first, he ends up carrying His personal message - that the world can work with what God's given us.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OH

Summary: Roger Cobb is a swinging bachelor, a lawyer, and a jazz musician. Edwina Cutwaters is a terminally ill spinster who is given another chance at life if her soul can be transported into another woman. However, the guru goofs, and Edwina's soul takes over the right side of Roger.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 1998

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie All 1998

Summary: Private eye Rigby Reardon is hired by a beautiful woman to investigate the mysterious death of her father--a wealthy scientist, philanthropist, and chessemaker.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEA

Summary: Mel Brooks, the comedian, director and screenwriter, has energetically avoided a documentary profile from being made, until now. He has agreed to throw himself into a new documentary about his storied career, giving American Masters exclusive interviews and complete access to his film archives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEL

Brooks, Mel

Contents: A re-pleasure to see you -- See Moses run -- Diseases and the plagues -- Pain -- Wives and famous women -- Parents -- First place you ever lived -- Yarmulkes galore and the inquisition -- Computer sex and self help -- Exercise and infomercial -- Music -- Height and plastic surgery -- Seven wonders of the world -- Famous people -- Pet peeves and words of wisdom.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN TWO

Summary: Twenty terrifying stories plus the original Pilot movie from the original first season of television's Night Gallery. Stories adapted from short stories by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft and Conrad Aiken and directed by such people as Steven Spielberg and John Badham.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIG

Summary: Schools out and Ocean Front High gym teacher Freddy has big plans: summer in Hawaii. But the school's vice-principal is going to have Freddy teach remedial English. The laid-back teacher has a class full of misfits. The no-nonsense history professor down the hall is keeping an eye on all the shenanigans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUM

Summary: Chronicles the showbiz career of Rose Marie, from her start at the age of 4 on her NBC radio show, through Vaudeville, Vegas and several television shows.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAI

Summary: Enjoy the best of one of America's most popular TV comedies with a phenomenal cast. The special 50th anniversary collection includes 20 classic episodes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2011

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV DIC

Summary: "Television's original genius. In the infancy of any medium, there will be someone who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn't even been made yet, creating a television "language" that is now taken for granted. ... over 13 hours of programs that span the all-too-brief but brilliant television career...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory LLC 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ERN

Summary: Martin's screen debut, as the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions take him from rags to riches to rags.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JER

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JER

Summary: A teenage girl comes of age in Beverly Hills, California in 1976. Her life is further complicated by her family's tenuous financial situation and her friendship with her ne'er-do-well cousin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SLU