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Red Hill (DVD)
Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tommy Lewis, Claire Van Der Boom, Christopher Davis, …
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Australian Western-style thriller. Ryan Kwanten stars as Shane
Cooper, a young city cop who has moved with his pregnant wife to
the small outback town of Red Hill in search of a quiet country
life. But on his first day in the job, an escaped murderer (Tommy
Lewis) breaks out of prison and goes on the rampage in the town,
tearing open old wounds and intent on bloody revenge.
A comprehensive tome of baseball facts, figures, and
did-you-knows-- newly updated! For fans of baseball trivia, this
updated version of The New Baseball Bible, first published as The
Baseball Catalog in 1980 and selected as a Book-of-the-Month Club
alternate, is sure to provide something for everyone, regardless of
team allegiance. The book covers the following topics: beginnings
of baseball, rules and records, umpires, how to play the game
(i.e., strategy), equipment, ballparks, famous faces (i.e., Hank
Aaron vs. Babe Ruth), managers, executives, trades, the media, big
moments in history, the language of baseball, superstitions and
traditions, spring training, today's game through the 2019 season,
and much more. Veteran sportswriter Dan Schlossberg weaves in
facts, figures, and famous quotes, discusses strategy, and provides
stats and images--many of them never previously published
elsewhere. With this book, you'll discover how the players'
approach, use of equipment, and even salaries and schedules have
changed over time. You will also learn the origin of team and
player nicknames, fun facts about the All-Star Game and World
Series, and so much more. The New Baseball Bible serves as the
perfect gift for fans of America's pastime.
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Blessed (DVD)
Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto, Deborra-Lee Furness, Victoria Haralabidou, Monica Maughan, …
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Australian drama from director Ana Kokkinos which examines the
fraught relationship between a number of mothers and their
children. The action of the film occurs in two distinct phases. The
first follows the seven children over the course of a single day as
they attempt to make it on their own in the unforgiving environment
of the urban streets; the second follows the various mothers on the
same day as, stricken with worry, they attempt to track down their
missing children. Gina (Victoria Haralabidou), who has deeply held
religious convictions, is haunted by the belief that her son has
been killed; Tanya (Deborra-Lee Furness), caring but overbearing,
threatens to make things worse with her child by accusing him of
stealing; while Rhonda (Frances O'Connor) is forced to face the
agonising truth that, though she loves them deeply, her children
may be better off without her.
It's one thing to make a hit movie, another to orchestrate its
release. Al Clark describes in hilarious detail how the outrageous
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, became an
international success. In this updated edition, The Lavender Bus
chronicles the follies of the film business as it outlines the
preparation, production and marketing of Priscilla, reinforced by
box office figures and soundtrack sales.
Four years after writing his first novel, The Big Sleep, Raymond
Chandler found himself sitting in an office at Paramount Studios
earning a weekly salary that amounted to almost half of what he had
received film rights to his second novel, Farewell My Lovely.
Despite the considerable rewards, he was always uncertain, often
disgruntled, never at ease. Raymond Chandler in Hollywood is an
entertaining and comprehensive assessment of Chandler's turbulent
association with Hollywood, both as a screenwriter whose credits
included Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia and Strangers on a Train
and as the provider of source material -- his six filmed novels
have so far yielded ten movies. Illustrated with over 100 rare
stills, this book provides a special insight into the work of the
world's most acclaimed writer of detective fiction.
If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark
might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his
thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball's
great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick
Williams, while ejecting any number of the game's elite--once
tearing a hamstring in the process. He was the first Jewish umpire
in American League history, and probably the first to eject his own
father from the officials' dressing room. But whatever Clark was
doing--officiating at Nolan Ryan's three hundredth win, Cal
Ripken's record breaker, or the earthquake World Series of 1989, or
braving a labor dispute, an anti-Semitic tirade by a Cy Young Award
winner, or a legal imbroglio--it makes for a good story. Called Out
but Safe is Clark's outspoken and often hilarious account of his
life in baseball from umpire school through the highlights to the
inglorious end of his stellar career. Not just a source of baseball
history and lore, Clark's book also affords a rare look at what
life is like for someone who works for the Major Leagues' other
team.
If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark
might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his
thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball's
great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick
Williams, while ejecting any number of the game's elite-once
tearing a hamstring in the process. He was the first Jewish umpire
in American League history, and probably the first to eject his own
father from the officials' dressing room. But whatever Clark was
doing-officiating at Nolan Ryan's three hundredth win, Cal Ripken's
record breaker, or the "earthquake" World Series of 1989, or
braving a labor dispute, an anti-Semitic tirade by a Cy Young Award
winner, or a legal imbroglio-it makes for a good story. Called Out
but Safe is Clark's outspoken and often hilarious account of his
life in baseball from umpire school through the highlights to the
inglorious end of his stellar career. Not just a source of baseball
history and lore, Clark's book also affords a rare look at what
life is like for someone who works for the Major Leagues' other
team.
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