Joe Grifasi
1) The ghost
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With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing in his comfortable existence prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage—or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. With nothing left to lose, Charlie takes a leave of absence from his job to drive through New England, hoping to make peace with himself.
Christmas is approaching when Charlie...
Christmas is approaching when Charlie...
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Dear possible listener of this audio,
I want to be a writer, just like my Uncle Harold, who wrote a bunch of books about our friend Bunnicula. So I wrote It Came from Beneath the Bed!. It’s about a wirehaired dachsund puppy named Howie who saves the world from a disgusting, evil menace named . . . oops, that would give away the story!
After I wrote my first book, my editor asked me to write another one. In Invasion of the Mind...
I want to be a writer, just like my Uncle Harold, who wrote a bunch of books about our friend Bunnicula. So I wrote It Came from Beneath the Bed!. It’s about a wirehaired dachsund puppy named Howie who saves the world from a disgusting, evil menace named . . . oops, that would give away the story!
After I wrote my first book, my editor asked me to write another one. In Invasion of the Mind...
3) Me to Play
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Two actors with debilitating, incurable Parkinson’s disease put up an Off-Broadway production of Endgame, the comic masterpiece Samuel Beckett wrote after his mother died from the same disease that says “nothing’s funnier than unhappiness.”
4) Radium Girls
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Based on true events, it follows teen sisters, Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie's world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. She discovers a corporate cover-up and, in a radical coming of age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. Based on historical events,...
5) 61*
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Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, one was the Yankees' best loved players and the other was their most valuable. 1961 was about to be the summer that no one who loves baseball will ever forget. Both men find that they are approaching Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season 60 home-run record. Facing pressure from the media and the stands, both men know that there is only room for one winner. The fans make their choice, but the people's favorite isn't the favorite...
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Adaptation of the Shakespeare play, filmed during a stage performance: "This immersive and darkly poetic cinematic experience brings the play's iconic fairies, spells and hallucinatory lovers to life ... the feats of visual imagination are ingenious and plentiful, but beating at the center of the film is an emotionally moving take on the deeper human aspects of Shakespeare's beloved tale"--Container.
7) Matewan
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A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powder keg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920s.
8) Benny & Joon
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Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson star in this quirky romantic drama about two misfits who come together as a result of an unusual poker game. Aidan Quinn and Julianne Moore co-star.
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Jack Reed is back in the next thrilling installment of his series! When a young topless dancer turns up dead seemingly tied to Win Carter a powerful car salesman with deep ties to people in high places. Sgt. Jack Reed is ordered to bury the case, but he has other plans and will stop at nothing to bring her killer to justice. Fighting a corrupt Lieutenant, and complacent District Attorney's Office, it'll be an uphill battle for Jack Reed, but he is...