![]() ![]() What ensues is an altogether captivating spin on the city mouse/country mouse story, as Chester adjusts to the bustle of the big city. He begs his parents to let him keep the shiny insect in the newsstand, assuring his bug-fearing mother that crickets are harmless, maybe even good luck. Despite the insect's wurst intentions, he ends up in a pile of dirt in Times Square. ![]() Attracted by the irresistible smell of liverwurst, Chester had foolishly jumped into the picnic basket of some unsuspecting New Yorkers on a junket to the country. What was this new, strangely musical chirping? None other than the mellifluous leg-rubbing of the somewhat disoriented Chester Cricket from Connecticut. Mario, the son of Mama and Papa Bellini, proprietors of the subway-station newsstand, had only heard the sound once. ![]() One night, the sounds of New York City-the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices-is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has never heard before. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A Georgia country boy, Will has no experience with life outside the mountains. All three versions of No Time for Sergeants celebrate Griffith's exuberant personality as channeled through the fresh-faced Private Will Stockdale. No Time for Sergeants allows Griffith to reprise the role he originated in the famous 1955 live television show, which was immediately adapted as a Broadway play. Although now considered an influential classic, Kazan's movie was a noted box office underperformer. It was also a breakout success for actor Andy Griffith, a folksy actor who had made his film debut the previous year in Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd, a cynical and prophetic tale of a television entertainer with political ambitions. ![]() Mervyn LeRoy's film was one of the most popular peacetime service comedies of the 1950s, taking its place beside Mister Roberts and Operation Mad Ball. ![]() ![]() 1958's No Time for Sergeants follows the adventures of a hillbilly Air Force draftee whose slow-witted honesty makes life miserable for his barracks sergeant. Written by John Lee Mahin from the play by Ira Levin and the novel by Mac HymanĮvery few years a hit movie puts a dent in the old adage that shows about rural bumpkins are box office poison. Starring Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, Don Knotts. ![]() ![]() Teddy Fitzroy is caught by security guard Marge O'Malley giving the chimpanzees water balloons at Funjungle to defend them from a family that was harrassing a young chimp by pelting it with peanuts. or Henry won't be the only one who's dead. He'd better find the killer behind the hippo homicide fast. ![]() and soon Teddy finds himself in jeopardy too. Was it Martin del Gato, FunJungle's head of operations, who hates kids and hates animals even more? Or Pete Thwacker, the exasperated head of PR, who's cleaned up Henry's messes one time too many? The list goes on and on. It turns out Henry was two tons of trouble - and a lot of people wanted him dead. When the police refuse to take him seriously, Teddy sets out to find the truth - and gets far more than he bargained for. The park claims he died of natural causes, but Teddy suspects foul play. Henry the Hippo, the beloved mascot of FunJungle, America's newest theme park, has gone belly-up. ![]() Teddy Fitzroy has a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. ![]() ![]() Production: Bêtes Lumineuses and Terre Innue Her two sisters, worried, alert Angèle, their mother, who must come help the family.ĭirector and screenwriter: Sophie Farkas Bolla She then develops a paranoid disorder – to the point of believing her house is now haunted by him. border, Diane tries to mourn her father’s death in a tragic accident. Meanwhile, Simon’s mother Claire, a famous opera singer, returns home after a 15-year absence. But while Simon thinks he’s in an exhilarating love affair, a toxic dynamic develops between them, stemming from Olivier’s narcissistic personality. When he meets Olivier, the new drag queen at the show bar, he instantly falls under his spell. Names of the Advisory Committee members will be made available once all funding decisions have been announced.Ī bright and confident young man, Simon is the rising star of Montreal’s drag queen scene. The decision-making process reflected Telefilm’s goal of fostering a diversity of voices in the industry, ensuring that Telefilm funds a balanced portfolio of productions that reflects a variety of genres, budgets and company sizes, regions of the country, and perspectives. ![]() Telefilm Canada announces 12 French-language feature film titles receiving financing under the Production Program, for a total amount of $14.2 million.Īn Advisory Committee comprised of external and internal representatives evaluated the projects and made recommendations to Telefilm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Geschichte der Wiedertäufer zu Münster in Westfalen: aus einer lateinischen Handschrift des Hermann von Kerssenbroick übersetzt by: Kerssenbroick, Hermann von um 1520-1585 Published: (1929) Geschichte der Wiedertäufer zu Münster in Westphalen: nebst einer Beschreibung der Hauptstadt dieses Landes by: Kerssenbroick, Hermann von um 1520-1585 Published: (1771) Narrative of the Anabaptist Madness: The Overthrow of Münster, the Famous Metropolis of Westphalia by: Hamilton, Alastair Published: (2008) ![]() Narrative of the anabaptists madness / 2 by: Kerssenbroick, Hermann von um 1520-1585 Published: (2007) Narrative of the Anabaptist madness: the overthrow of Münster, the famous metropolis of Westphalia by: Kerssenbroick, Hermann von um 1520-1585 Published: (2007) |a Narrative of the Anabaptist madness the overthrow of Münster, the famous metropolis of Westphalia |a Studies in the history of Christian traditions ![]() |a Kerssenbroik, Hermann von um 1520-1585 ![]() |a Kerssenbrock, Hermannus a um 1520-1585 |a Kerssenbroch, Hermannus a um 1520-1585 |a Kerssenbroch, Hermann von um 1520-1585 |a Kerssenbrock, Hermann von um 1520-1585 |a Kerssenbroick, Hermannus a um 1520-1585 |a Kerssenbroick, Hermann von um 1520-1585 ![]() ![]() ![]() His stories appeared in The New Yorker, Gay Mag and many other places. SIMON: Brandon Taylor's highly acclaimed debut novel "Real Life" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ![]() Good, because I don't have a great immune system, and, like, it's socially irresponsible to come out if you're not feeling well. I don't think it's contagious, Lionel said. You're not contagious, are you, someone asked. ![]() Honestly, I think telling someone where to start with an author is kind of a slippery slope to fascism. Where should I start? Sure, but one person can't do anything against the vast political machine of American empire. Skip a latte and make a damn donation, right? OK, but, like, I've tried. Like, we're this close to being totally defunded. People only think they like Tolstoy better, but he's basically J.K. Brandon Taylor's book "Filthy Animals" is a collection of stories - some interconnect, some just bounce off each other - most of which are set in a Midwestern university town in which Lionel, a Black, queer grad student trying to build back from a suicide attempt, goes to a party and encounters a couple who may change his life or may just put him into a new tailspin.īRANDON TAYLOR: (Reading) The couple were leaning forward now, each of them having a different conversation with the androgynous person, talking over each other in a hash of references to Dostoyevsky and Planned Parenthood. ![]() ![]() Although Unlikely Animals deals with many issues-aging parents, the opioid epidemic, life in rural New England, family dreams and pressures-it does so with intention and care, never heavy-handedness. They’re flawed, searching and struggling to be seen. Layer in Emma’s new job as a substitute fifth grade teacher and other delightful moments, and you have the makings of a propulsive, inviting tale.Įmma and her family are endearing, charming characters to observe. In many ways, Emma’s return home is messy her brother is recovering from an opioid addiction, and Clive has begun to frequently and unpredictably hallucinate the existence of various animals, as well as the ghost of long-dead naturalist Ernest Harold Baynes. Despite his tremors, Clive is determined to solve the mystery of Emma’s best friend, Crystal, who has disappeared. Although she was born with a natural ability to heal, the ability seems to have deserted her, leaving her unable to help her father, Clive, who has a brain disease. ![]() The town’s dead are compelled to speak when Emma Starling returns home after a failed attempt at medical school. ![]() ![]() The story is told by the collective dead of a small New Hampshire town, with all the boundaries and unknowns that are inherent when your storytellers are buried in a cemetery. ![]() Annie Hartnett’s second novel, Unlikely Animals, is striking and richly imagined, with a voice that is wholly its own. ![]() ![]() The police say they don’t spend much time looking for drug addicts. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days.Įmma arrives home knowing she must face her dad’s illness, her mom’s judgment, and her younger brother’s recent stint in rehab, but she’s unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. A medical school dropout, she’s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. ![]() ![]() Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she’s lost her way. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. ‘Heartfelt, touching and delightfully quirky’ Good Housekeeping ![]() A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. ![]() ![]() ![]() But today, this morning, he wanted that biting cold.Įspecially with what he was about to do. He could shield himself with his Siphons, had done it in the past. His flying leathers and gloves kept him warm enough, but his wings, exposed to the chill wind … The cold was sharp as a knife. ![]() Long ago.Ĭatching an updraft that sent him soaring over the nearest peaks and then into the endless, snow-coated labyrinth of mountains that made up their homeland, Cassian breathed in deep. Ignoring them, projecting the message that they weren’t important enough to even be considered threats were far better ways of pissing them off. ![]() No need to do a warning sweep over Devlon and the sparring rings. He flapped higher, then banked left, aiming for the peaks behind the camp pass. The wind was a roar around him, the temperature cold enough that his eyes watered. And with a mighty flap, he shot into the gray skies. ![]() ![]() Mutated cockroaches have somehow "organized" themselves by some unknowable miracle of evolution into a thinking organism, each individual creature aĬell in the larger mass. If everyday roaches are disgusting, six-inch-long roaches with mandibles of chewing death are immeasurably more disgusting! A swarm of Yep- The Nest is powerhouse pulp horror, written with enthusiasm and tasteless know-how, a creepy-crawly scarefest that assaults the reader with one revolting sensation after another. Imagine my surprise when I found out it was totally worth the wait! Don't remember where I first heard of this one, but I'd been searching for it quite awhile. Douglas (actually the pseudonym of one Eli Cantor more on him later). But nope: this guy was jazzed I'd found a copy of The Nest, a Zebra paperback published in 1980, written by an utterly undistinguished Gregory A. "Scary fuckin' book," said the grizzled old bookstore owner, grinning, "scare the shit outta ya!" When I set my stack of horror paperbacks on the counter of that used bookstore in Utah I was not expecting such an encomium about any of them, much less one of the sleazier-looking titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The nicotine-yellow fingertip tapped the paperback cover. ![]() |