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(0)Michael Hastings
Author
Language
English
Description
At age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a twenty-first-century reporter-cell phones, high-speed Internet access, digital video cameras, fixers, drivers, guards, and translators. In startling detail, he describes the chaos, the violence, the never-ending threats of bomb and mortar attacks, and the front lines that can...
3) Tom & Viv
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Tom & Viv tells the story of the passionate yet turbulent relationship between T.S. Eliot and his beautiful wife, Vivienne. Although she was the inspiration for his greatest works, Eliot finally had to make a choice between standing by the emotionally troubled Vivienne and letting her go
4) The American
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 minutes) : sound, colored ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 19th-century, Christopher Newman amasses a fortune in California then travels to Europe to find a wife. His overtures to a young French woman, a member of an aristocratic family, meet with condescension in this classic collision between European and American culture.
5) Tom & Viv
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 858 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
The American: American Christopher Newman is smart, educated and rich. He is a Civil War veteran and a self made tycoon who goes to Europe to see the 'treasures and entertain' himself. He meets Claire and after the fifth meeting he asks her to marry him.
The portrait of a lady: Isabel Archer is a beautiful, spirited American who is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett. It is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel is resolved to determine...
Author
Language
English
Description
If there's a vice or deceit that doesn't roll across the screen as you watch this Harlod Robbin's extravaganza, just wait a few minutes! Candice Bergen, Olivia de Havilland, Ernest Borgnine, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Aznavour and more star in The Adventurers, an irresistible mega-movie directed by Lewis Gilbert (Shirley Valentine, Moonraker) and loaded with all the trappings and treacheries, power plays and passions, intrigues and in-fighting of the...