Segal, GeorgeOverview
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George Segal
2012
by Roland Emmerich
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5 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in English and held by 1,714 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect of radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world
Death of a salesman
by Arthur Miller
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14 editions published between 1965 and 2008 in English and held by 1,547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An abbreviated television adaptation of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a middle-aged man's emotional turmoil
The mirror has two faces
by Barbra Streisand
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9 editions published between 1997 and 2005 in English and held by 780 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Rose, a literature professor who lives with her mother, is in search of passion. Gregory, a mathematics professor who has been hurt in the past, is afraid to start a new relationship. Fate brings the two together and they soon agree to a marriage of convenience, built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in love
For the boys
by Mark Rydell
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9 editions published between 1992 and 2004 in English and French and held by 608 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A USO singer teams up with a song and dance man to entertain the troops, and For The Boys follows them through 3 wars and 50 years of music and memories
Fun with Dick and Jane
by Columbia Pictures
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5 editions published between 1989 and 2005 in English and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A manager unexpectedly loses his job, leaving him $70,000 in debt. He and his wife team up to rob drug stores to keep up their lifestyle
The Bridge at Remagen
by John Guillermin
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10 editions published between 1969 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 456 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Based on the true story of an astute American general and a high-ranking German officer, torn by the conflicting demands of his country and fellow countrymen, during the last days of World War II
Heights
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3 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 451 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Follows five people over a 24 hour period on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. Isabel's mother, Diana, learns that her husband has a new lover and begins to re-think her life choices and, especially, her open marriage. Diana and Isabel's paths cross with Alec, a young actor, and with Peter, a journalist. Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day
A touch of class
by Melvin Frank
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15 editions published between 1972 and 2010 in English and French and held by 443 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An affair between a married man and a divorced woman is complicated when they fall in love
Flirting with disaster
by David O Russell
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6 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in English and held by 420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "In a quest to find his biological parents, Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)--joined by his wife (Patricia Arquette) and a sexy adoption counselor (Téa Leoni)--embarks on a cross-country search for his 'roots.' Yet as he careens from one outrageous situation to another, Mel finds himself tempted by the seductive counselor--even as his wife starts a flirtation of her own! By the time they meet up with his free-spirited birth parents, the whole situation is spinning out of control"--Container
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5 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Ordinary miracles: A troubled teen who has bounced from one foster home to another goes to live with a judge who's struggling with the disarray of her own life; together they rediscover the joy and miracle of being alive
King Rat
by James Clavell
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9 editions published between 1965 and 2010 in English and held by 334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors
Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 330 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come
The owl and the pussycat
by Herbert Ross
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13 editions published between 1970 and 2002 in English and held by 311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Opposites can't help but attract in this outlandish pairing of a meek writer and a hot prostitute
Fielder's choice
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2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A work-obsessed advertising exec is thrust into unexpected fatherhood when he inherits his autistic nephew and finds his life drastically changed
Where's Poppa?
by Carl Reiner
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11 editions published between 1970 and 2002 in English and held by 249 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A Jewish lawyer's aged mother constantly harms his love life, and he considers various means of getting rid of her
The Quiller memorandum
by Michael Anderson
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17 editions published between 1966 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 198 WorldCat member libraries worldwide With little else to help him beyond sharp wits, a strong will and a very dedicated schoolteacher, American spy Quiller combs West Berlin for the headquarters of a shadowy neo-Nazi movement
No way to treat a lady
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6 editions published between 1968 and 2002 in English and held by 197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A mass murderer of women, who is also a master of disguise, has a running battle with a police detective. The killer gets his kicks by phoning in clues to the murders to the detective. All of New York trembles as the sixth strangling is reported and the man with the makeup kit stalks still another victim ... the detective's girlfriend
It's my party
by Randal Kleiser
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5 editions published between 1995 and 2004 in English and held by 193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A bright young L.A. architect who is about to lose his battle with AIDS decides to end his life rather than face debilitation, but first he decides to throw the greatest farewell party of all time
California split
by Robert Altman
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4 editions published between 1974 and 2004 in German and English and held by 191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Keeping one step ahead of their bookie, two L.A. gamblers embark on a winning streak that takes them to Reno, Nevada, where they enter a high-stakes poker game against the legendary Amarillo Slim
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5 editions published between 1983 and 2004 in English and held by 188 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When an uptight executive discovers he has a long-lost black son, his tidy world goes hopelessly and hilariously awry in this wickedly funny comedy more
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Adoption Adultery Autistic children Birthparents College teachers Companionate marriage Counselor and client Custody of children Debt Directors of corporations Earth (Planet) End of the world End of the world (Astronomy) Entertainers Entertainers in motion pictures Environmental degradation Families Fathers and sons Financial crises Friendship Geophysical prediction Husband and wife Loman, Willy (Fictitious character) Love Man-woman relationships Marriage Married people Miller, Arthur, Motion pictures New York (State)--New York Ocean travel Passenger ships Persons Porter, Katherine Anne, Prisoners Prisoners of war Quests (Expeditions) Revenge Robbery Sales personnel Singapore--Changi Sisters Social interaction Suicide Survivalism Two thousand twelve, A.D Unemployment United States Women judges World War (1939-1945)
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