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The complete third season of the award-winning comedy starring Laura Linney as a schoolteacher who rings the changes after she's diagnosed with cancer. Reserved suburban wife and mother Cathy Jamison (Linney) undergoes a transformation following her diagnosis, recognising that life is short and that she must go after the things she wants to achieve. In this season, Cathy receives some positive news about her cancer treatment while her husband Paul (Oliver Platt) recovers from a health scare of his own. The episodes are: 'Thin Ice', 'What's Your Story?', 'Bundle of Joy', 'Family Matters', 'Face Off', 'Life Rights', 'How Bazaar', 'Killjoy', 'Vaya Con Dios' and 'Fly Away'.
With backbreaking work in a ramshackle lab in Paris, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre achieve a revolutionary understanding of radiation and share a Nobel Prize. When her beloved Pierre dies in an accident, Marie is plunged into depression. Paul Langevin, fleeing an unhappy marriage, gives her the strength to return to her work. But the scandal over their affair threatens to end her career - just when she might become the first person ever to receive a second Nobel Prize.
He's one of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors-a star
on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person
to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his
eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as
elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. "From the Hardcover edition."
Comedy starring Matthew Broderick as Cooper, a Chicago-based journalist suffering from post-concussion memory loss who takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural Missouri hometown. There he runs into his recently-divorced high school sweetheart, Charlotte (Virginia Madsen), and, at his mother's request, attempts to persuade his Alzheimer's-impaired Uncle Rollie (Alan Alda) to move into a nursing home.
Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn and the ever popular Alan Alda star in this sweet romantic comedy tracing the unique 26-year relationship between two people - who happen to be married to other people. When Doris, a young housewife from Oakland, and George, an accountant from New Jersey, meet by chance at a rural California inn, they embark on an affair that brings them together on the same weekend, in the same place, for the next 26 years. As time passes, events in their personal lives impact their special once-a-year romance in this heart-warming comedy.
He's one of America's most recognisable and acclaimed actors-a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. 'My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six,' begins Alan Alda's irresistible story. The son of a popular actor and a loving, but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on after early struggles to achieve extraordinary success in his profession. Yet Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is not a memoir of show business ups and downs. It is a moving and funny story of a boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only begun to grow. It is the story of turning points in his life, events that would make him what he is - if only he could survive them. From the moment as a boy when his dead dog is returned from the taxidermist's shop with a hideous expression on his face, and he learns that death can't be undone, to the decades-long effort to find compassion for the mother he lived with but never knew, to his acceptance of his father in him, personally and professionally, he learns the hard way that change, uncertainty and transformation are what life is made of, and the good life is made of welcoming them. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, filled with curiosity about Nature, good humour and honesty, is the crowning achievement of an actor, author, and director, but surprisingly, it is the story of a life more filled with turbulence and laughter than any he's ever played on the stage or screen.
Tom Hanks stars in this historical drama, set during the Cold War, directed by Steven Spielberg. When Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) sits down on a park bench in Brooklyn, New York, a secret message left for him causes the FBI to arrest him under suspicion of being a Soviet spy. When insurance lawyer James B. Donovan (Hanks) is assigned to Abel's defence, he finds his new challenge increasingly difficult as the defendent refuses to co-operate. The cast also includes Amy Ryan, Alan Alda and Domenick Lombardozzi.
Hot shot advertising executive Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) thinks he's God's gift to women and can get anyone he wants. After an accident he discovers that he can hear what women are really thinking about and is upset that his showing off techniques are not popular with his female colleagues. To make matters worse his dream of being promoted to a higher position has been thwarted by man-eating, new team member Darcy (Helen Hunt). He does not like this and uses his new found powers to ruin her by reading her mind and selling her ideas as his own. But soon his plan backfires as she starts to fall in love with him and there seems to be no way out.
Picking up where his bestselling memoir "Never Have Your Dog
Stuffed" left off-having been saved by emergency surgery after
nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile-beloved actor and acclaimed
author Alan Alda offers an insightful and funny look at some
impossible questions he's asked himself over the years: What do I
value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even
mean?) Here, Alda listens in on things he's heard himself saying at
critical points in his life-from the turbulence of the sixties, to
his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache
of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in his
life and in all our lives, he notices that "doorways are where the
truth is told," and wonders if there's one thing-art, activism,
family, money, fame-that could lead to a "life of meaning." In a
book that is candid, wise, and as questioning as it is incisive,
Alda amuses and moves us with his uniquely hilarious meditations on
questions great and small.
George Tillman Jr. directs this feature adaptation of the 2013 Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name. When elderly widower Ira Levinson (Alan Alda) gets trapped in a snowstorm after crashing his car, his brain refuses to let him die, replaying thoughts and memories of him and his wife over and over. In the same town, student Sophia (Britt Robertson) meets cowboy Luke (Scott Eastwood), a man like no other she has ever met. As the lives of the two couples begin to intertwine Sophia struggles with the danger of Luke's chosen career and Ira comes to terms with his current predicament. Can they save each other while trying to save themselves?
Picking up where his bestselling memoir "Never Have Your Dog
Stuffed" left off-having been saved by emergency surgery after
nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile-beloved actor and acclaimed
author Alan Alda offers an insightful and funny look at some
impossible questions he's asked himself over the years: What do I
value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even
mean?) Here, Alda listens in on things he's heard himself saying at
critical points in his life-from the turbulence of the sixties, to
his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache
of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in his
life and in all our lives, he notices that "doorways are where the
truth is told," and wonders if there's one thing-art, activism,
family, money, fame-that could lead to a "life of meaning." In a
book that is candid, wise, and as questioning as it is incisive,
Alda amuses and moves us with his uniquely hilarious meditations on
questions great and small.
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