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(0)Darryl Ponicsan
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Language
English
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From the author of The Last Detail and Last Flag Flying, a wry, slightly surreal comic novel about love, human connection, and the trials of small-town life.
Following a high-pressure rewrite in New York City, veteran screenwriter and expert on the Romantic poets D. K. Kecskeméti finds himself not in his home in the Hollywood Hills but in an unfamiliar house in a strange town where he is greeted not by his wife but by an obsequious houseman who...
Author
Language
English
Description
Now a major movie starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, directed by Richard Linklater!
Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire-and of the mayhem that ensues-was made into an award-winning...
3) Vision quest
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A high school wrestler sets his sights on winning the state championship and the heart of a beautiful, older girl
4) The boost
Publisher
MGM DVD/MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When business falters, a Los Angeles real estate agent turns to cocaine to regain his edge
5) School ties
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep. school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship...
6) Nuts
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A prostitute accused of manslaughter attempts to prove that she is mentally competent to stand trial
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
10) Taps
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A senior military cadet leads his fellow students in an armed revolt against those who are trying to close his school
Author
Language
English
Description
At a library used book sale, Ponicsán picked up a copy of Nora Ephron's bestseller, "I Feel Bad About My Neck." It inspired him over the next several years to answer her observations from the male point of view and over a different bodily part, and to direct it to Ephron's audience. Part memoir, part parody, part social analysis. (Publisher's note: This is not just a guy's book, or an old guy's book…It's amusing and full of interesting tales and...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws it police force from the ranks, as temporary duty called Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving novel set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, Virginia-Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall-are assigned to escort eighteen-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence...
13) Last Flag Flying
Author
Language
English
Description
This Sequel to the Acclaimed Cult Novel Is Now a Major Motion Picture
Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire-and of the mayhem that ensues-it was made into an award-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson....