Rita Moreno

When the dome of the Taj Mahal is stolen, then a dinosaur skeleton from the Smithsonian, Zack and Ivy track Carmen to Komodo Island. There, they discover she is bent on creating the world's only living dinosaur - for a one-of-a-kind pet. When Mark Twain's writing desk and Charles Dickens' ink well are stolen, the detectives track Carmen to Rudyard Kipling's India. There, they deduce that the thefts can mean only one thing. Carmen is going to pen...

"Five hundred bucks doesn't come easily for private eye Philip Marlowe. But when it comes by way of a bribe, it might as well be five cents. He rejects Winslow Wong and his offer of cash... and Wong promptly karates the detective's office into a junk pile. A colorful whodunit with the grim task of sleuthing a case of missing persons, blackmail and ice pick murders in a sprawling 60's L.A. so hard-boiled somebody's got to crack. And when that happens,...

Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.

Filmed in schools, childcare centers, libraries, research centers, and homes around the country, this series looks at different reading strategies that are helping young children learn to read. Imagine how you would feel, walking into school where the words around you are unintelligible because you've only heard your family's native language, and your new teacher speaks only English? How do teachers teach English language learners (ELLs) to read in...

The story of the life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes.

A revised, updated, and expanded edition of the best-selling self-help book that encourages women to overcome adversity, embrace change, and discover their power. This Is Not the Life I Ordered is the culmination of weekly 'kitchen table coaching' sessions that took place for more than a decade and were designed to support four extraordinary women through life's ups and downs. These women realized that their support of one another could help other...

Gangsters kidnap a young girl from her wealthy family for ransom.

A Christmas special where Lidia hosts a celebration with Christopher Walken, Marcus Samuelsson, Carlo Ponti Jr., Padma Lakshmi, Ann Curry, and Rita Moreno.

The night of the following day: Professional criminals successfully kidnap a young girl from her wealthy family, but their plans become undone as they realize there is no trust between them. The ugly American: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible...

Nicholas Borelli II is an over-protected teen who has the adventure of a lifetime when his plans to attend math camp go awry. He spends the summer in Brooklyn, NY with family he never knew he had; his Italian grandmother Tutti and Uncle Frankie. Nicholas leans on the local kids to help him fit in and winds up mistakenly into his new persona, Nicky Deuce. Nicky uncovers family secrets.