Lily Tomlin
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"In 1967, producer George Schlatter pitched an idea for a quirky new television show: one inspired by the hippie counterculture, which would take the idea of sit-ins, love-ins, and be-ins, and manifest that politicized, sexualized, consciousness-raising energy into pure comedy. Much to the surprise of NBC executives, Laugh-In soon became the #1 show on American TV, and the careers of beloved stars like Lily Tomlin and Goldie Hawn were born. Still...
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Get ready, set, dough: It's Ms. Frizzle's birthday. A field trip to the bakery seems perfect, until the bus's shrinker-scope goes on the fritz and the class gets baked in a cake!
Plays ball: Ms. Frizzle combines Dorothy Ann's physics and Ralphie's baseball into a "Frictionless Baseball Game."
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The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics, the story of our values, our institutions, our interactions. Using her own experience and a custom blend of insight and humor, provocation and inspiration, personal story and social commentary, Emily takes her audience through its paradigm shift: from the Fear of Change to the Edge of Chaos. Emily Levine, like her film, was one-of-a-kind. She was a television...
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Kicks up a storm: The Friz transforms the bus into a Weathermobile and -- in a wild ride through the skies -- Ralphie becomes the meteorological superhero of his dreams.
Blows its top: To help them understand how the Earth makes islands, Ms. Frizzle presents the kids with an island that hasn't been discovered yet!
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Flexes its muscles: Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a field trip to R.U. Humerus's (Tony Randall) Body Shop!
Butterfly and the bog beast: The class needs a new mascot for its soccer team. Phoebe suggests butterflies, but everyone thinks they're wimpy, until The Fritz flutters in!
12) I Huckabees
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Kindhearted, but confused activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
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"Bus, do your stuff! Field trips with Ms. Frizzle are wilder than ever, into space, over to the Galapagos Islands, even a plunge into the depths of the Sun itself. And along the way, the kids viewers know and love bring their science investigations into the 21st century, still taking chances, making mistakes, and getting messy! Climb aboard for four out-of-this-world field trips you'll never forget"--Container.
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Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini is a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has run off and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary, a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends...
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The iconic Mister Kelly's illuminated legendary Chicago's Rush Street, and the entire country, by launching talents like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart, Bette Midler, and Steve Martin. It's visionary owners George and Oscar Marienthal smashed color and gender barriers to put unknown, controversial voices on stage and transform entertainment. Now, with the club long gone, and its star talent reaching its golden years, George's son David...
16) 9 to 5
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Three secretaries live every female worker's dream after discovering they share the same resentment towards their sexist boss.
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As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
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Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a rainy ride through the life cycle of a water drop, on the rough 'n tumble journey of a boulder subject to water erosion, and on a bubbly trip to the bottom of Walkerville Lake. Featuring lots of watery wonders, these shows will have your child soaking up some science while have a wet and wild blast.
20) The kid
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Successful, high-powered Russ Duritz has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the child he used to be--until one day, he meets him face-to-face!