Stephen Fry
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Physical Desc
x, 438 p., [32] p.of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Overview: How shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. -Or- This is the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[p2005]
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (2 hr., 40 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the Brown family meets a bear on Paddington Station, their lives are never the same again, as ordinary things become extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders'. Curl up with a true children's classic by reading A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. Winnie-the-Pooh may be a bear of very little brain, but thanks to his friends Piglet, Eeyore and, of course, Christopher Robin, he's never far from an adventure. In this story Pooh gets into a tight place, nearly catches a Woozle and...
6) Wagner & me
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world's most controversial composer, but can he salvage Richard Wagner's music from its dark associations with anti-Semitism and Hitler? Fry's quest begins in southern Germany where he is granted unique access to Bayreuth's legendary annual Wagner festival. In Switzerland he discovers the origins of Wagner's masterpiece "The Ring." In Bavaria he marvels at the fairytale castle inspired by Wagner's...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the most dominant food in the world. How has sugar infiltrated our diet and culture? What effect does it have on our minds and bodies? THAT SUGAR FILM is one man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It's been ten years since a group of friends (including Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton and Stephen Fry) graduated from college, and they've reunited at a grand English manor in the countryside to ring in the New Year. But when drinks start flowing, and their inhibitions are stripped away, it isn't long before this close-knit crew find themselves caught up in an unexpected melee misunderstandings that will soon test the very limits of...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Michael Fassbender stars as the man who saved the life of the bear who would become the inspiration for the stories of A.A. Milne — including Winnie the Pooh. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A fool and his money. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes (Stephen Campbell Moore) is part of the English idle class, wanting to marry the flighty Nina Blount (Emily Mortimer). He's a novelist with a one hundred-pound advance for a manuscript confiscated by English customs. He spends the next several years trying to get money and to set a wedding date. He trades in gossip, wins money on wagers, then gives it to a drunken Major (Jim Broadbent), who suggested...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, a handsome ex-Marine who landed in Hollywood after World War II and became confidante, aide-de-camp and lover to many of Hollywood’s greatest stars. In the 1940s and ‘50s, Scotty ran a gas station in the shadow of the studio lots where he would connect his friends with actors and actresses who had to hide their true sexual identities for fear of police raids at gay bars, societal shunning and...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
M.C. ESCHER: JOURNEY TO INFINITY is the story of world famous Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972). Equal parts history, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening portrait gives us the man through his own words and images: diary musings, excerpts from lectures, correspondence and more are voiced by British actor Stephen Fry, while Escher’s woodcuts, lithographs, and other print works appear in both original and...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
WINNIE-THE-POOH
POOH GOES VISITING and other stories
Story 1 In which we are introduced
Story 2 In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Story 3 In which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle
Story 4 In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
Story 5 In which Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
Story 6 In which Christopher Robin gives a Pooh...
POOH GOES VISITING and other stories
Story 1 In which we are introduced
Story 2 In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Story 3 In which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle
Story 4 In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
Story 5 In which Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
Story 6 In which Christopher Robin gives a Pooh...
15) Relative values
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high-society matron is not pleased that her son intends to marry a Hollywood starlet.
17) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Collector's ed., widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alice, now nineteen years old, returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD ultraviolet].
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray discs (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD-video
Language
English
Description
Bilbo Baggins continues on in his journey with the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic quest to reclaim their lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
DVD two-disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. The dragon Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women, and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo attempts to make him see reason.