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81) Critic's choice
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A New York critic, Parker Ballantine, writes pointed reviews that close insufferably lousy plays. But there's a new play in town by his wife, Angela. Is it bad? Will Parker grind it up in his typewriter? If he does, he may find he's married for bitter and for worse!
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Men in black: the newest member of an top-secret organization that monitors extra-terrestrial activity on earth, the newly-nameless "Agent J" is paired with veteran "K" to learn the ropes and ends up with the fate of the world in his hands.
Men in black II: when an old flame of K's returns to Earth, re-opening a case from his past, J has to retrieve him from retirement, restore his memories, and get the team back together to face an intergalactic...
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In Wolfen, police track werewolves. In Body snatchers, aliens take over a military base. In Coma, a young doctor becomes suspicious when healthy young people undergoing routine operations are mysteriously slipping into irreversible comas. In Bad moon, a werewolf pays a visit to his sister.
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"Combine the spy-against-spy Cold War era with '60s cool and the result is the trendsetting series that became a cultural touchstone -- and generated eight theatrical movies derived from and expanding upon key episodes. Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are intrepid U.N.C.L.E. agents who maintain tongue-in-cheek style as they confront the deadly schemes of THRUSH in the U.S. or anywhere else spy chief Mr. Waverly sends his two operatives"--Container....
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In his late sixties, Norman Mailer plunged into making experimental films. These self-financed, largely improvised metafictions are works of madness and bravado and starred Mailer himself. Included in this collection are Maidstone (1970); Wild 90 (1967); and Beyond the Law (1968).
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The night of the iguana: A defrocked, alcoholic, and emotionally-troubled minister struggles with his desire for earthly pleasures as a tour guide in Mexico. Shepherding a busload of school teachers and one libidinous 18-year old girl, he becomes entangled with the teen, suffers a nervous breakdown when discovered, and strands the group at the remote and rundown seaside hotel of his old friend Maxine. Sweet bird of youth: Chance Wayne, an ambitious...