Steve Martin
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author shares the stories of his years in stand-up comedy in a humorous memoir that recalls a first job selling guidebooks at Disneyland, his early magic and comedy act, his years of honing his craft, and the sacrifice, discipline, and originality it took to take him to the top.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Steve Martin is one of America's treasured comedic actors, having appeared in some of the most popular movies of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has for the past few years turned his attention to writing plays. The results, collected here, demonstrate new facets of the range and talent he possesses on screen. His plays hilariously explore very serious questions about love and happiness and the meaning of life; they are rich with...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philathropist and cheesemaker, has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead him to the "Carlotta Lists.".
13) Bowfinger
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywoods biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film.
14) Shopgirl
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Ray Porter is a buttoned-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle, a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away in a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
15) All of me
Series
Publisher
TriMark Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A dying millionnaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.
17) Roxanne
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
18) Three amigos!
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A silent screen comedy team is unwittingly hired by a Mexican village to help them get rid of terrorizing bandits.
19) The jerk
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005].
Language
English
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
20) L.A. story
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p1999.
Language
English
Description
A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.